Do any of you use meta-search tools? I don’t use them all that often, but lately I’ve been finding them useful to get a good overall idea of what the Internet has to offer on a subject. One of the oldest meta-search tools, MetaCrawler, just announced a new redesign (and hopefully, better search results).
Hate popups? Kill ’em dead
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Posted in Security
A Baltimore company is rolling out a software tool called I Hate Popups, a utility designed to eliminate popup ads that plague all of us while we search. It’s free to try, $9.95 to purchase.
Google Inaccessible in China?
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Posted in Search Engines
There are multiple reports today that China appears to have blocked Google from its residents, apparently because web searches could bring up porn links. Hmmm.
This week’s issue of the Internet Legal Research Weekly
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Posted in Mighell Marker
Is online and ready for reading. Enjoy, and have a happy and safe Labor Day!
And if you don’t have anything else to waste your time on…
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Posted in Fun Stuff
You might want to check out the T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project, which provides the scientific results of Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations. Those situations include the Resistivity Test (what is resistivity?), Rapid Oxidation Test, Radiation Test, Turing Test (my favorite), and Maximum Density Test, among others.
Thanks to Exploded Library…
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Posted in Miscellaneous
for the nice link. Visit the Exploded Library if you get a chance — it’s a weblog maintained by a law librarian, and has some worthwhile, interesting entries. The site also has an RSS feed.
Customer Non-Service
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Posted in Web and Online Culture
This CNET article discusses the poor response of online customer service. Only one third of the companies surveyed in this article send automatic e-mails in response to your customer service request — this is pretty sad, considering how easy it is to set up an automatic e-mail responder.
But an automatic responder is no big
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TracFed Lets You Keep Tabs on Federal Judges
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Posted in Legal Research Sites
A new service by TRAC Reports Inc. provides some terrific information on the inner workings of the federal government. For $50 a month, you do research on, among other things, your local federal judge and his or her track record on criminal and civil cases. But that’s just scratching the surface.
You can search categories
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Bag and Baggage
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Bag and Baggage, a website I mentioned in my August 18 issue of the Internet Legal Research Weekly, is the weblog of Denise Howell, an appellate lawyer at a California law firm. Denise frequently updates her site with legal news and other great information from the blogosphere. Check it out.
So those trackers really DO work…
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Posted in Fun Stuff
Researchers in Ireland fitted six Irish light-bellied brent geese with electronic transmitters to chart their migratory pattern. They followed one of the geese over 4,500 miles — all the way to an Eskimo hunter’s freezer.