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Even MORE Shortcuts
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Search Tips
Not satisfied with the shortcuts Greg Notess showed you yesterday? Then head over to SearchDay, where Gary Price offers More Yahoo Search Shortcuts.
Blawg of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Geof’s Waste of Bandwidth Blog features the continuing journey of a patent attorney named, as you might expect, Geof.
The search war is afoot
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Danny Sullivan has a nice article on Search Wars: Battle of the Search Superpowers, which discusses the history of competition between the various search engines, and where the battles will lead us, with Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft leading the way.
Shortcut to better research
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Search Tips
Using shortcuts at the various search engines is a terrific way to get your research done quickly and efficiently. Finding out about these shortcuts is the hard part. Greg Notess points you to shortcuts of some of the major search engines in Search Engine Prefixes and Shortcuts.
Extra! Extra!
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
The Mother’s Day Edition of the Internet Legal Research Weekly is hot off the presses. Highlights:
Blawg(s) of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Search Engine Overlap
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
In many of the seminars I give on search engines and legal research, I point out that it is a mistake to rely on only one search engine, because the overlap between the various search engines is not that great. Now there’s a way to see that for yourself, graphically.Thumbshots is a ranking comparison…
Blawg of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
ISP as Phishing Blocker
By Tom Mighell on
Gee, Earthlink really has it going on as a proactive ISP, huh? First they offer free spyware auditing services; now they’re introducing a new toolbar called ScamBlocker, which is designed to track and block access to known swindle sites. Unfortunately, services like these are necessary, because sometimes an Internet user’s most dangerous enemy…