Google Scholar offers Case Law
November 18, 2009 at 1:12 pm | In General Interest, Legal Research 101 | Leave a CommentTags: case law, databases, electronic resources, google, Google Scholar, internet research, online research
Google Scholar has added a free database to its site allowing one to search case law. Be Spacific has more information.
Google’s MP3 search
September 8, 2009 at 9:59 am | In Tech Side of Things | Leave a CommentTags: google, mp3
Google now has a page dedicated to searching for MP3’s. Click here for more information.
Comparing public data on Google
May 1, 2009 at 9:28 am | In General Interest | 1 CommentTags: google, public data
Google has launced a new tool that allows it users to find and compare public data through interactive charts. You can read more about it on Google Blogs.
Thanks to the Law Librarian Blog.
SearchWiki
November 21, 2008 at 1:20 pm | In General Interest, Tech Side of Things | Leave a CommentTags: google, SearchWiki
From the official Google Blog: “Today we’re launching SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don’t feel belong. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users.”
Settlement reached with Google scanning project
November 3, 2008 at 10:53 am | In General Interest, Law in the News | Leave a CommentTags: copyright, google, lawsuits
The American Library Association online is reporting that Google and authors/publishers have settled the lawsuit concerning copyright of scanned books.
Where to Vote on Election Day
October 23, 2008 at 9:46 am | In General Interest | Leave a CommentTags: 2008 election, google, voting
Google has developed a useful tool to determine where to vote on Election Day.
1,000,000,000,000 URL’s
August 4, 2008 at 11:12 am | In General Interest, Legal Research 101 | Leave a CommentTags: google, web pages
That’s 1 trillion unique URL’s according to a report published by Google. According Google’s report: The systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once! How do we find all those pages? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links on those new pages to even more pages and so on, until we have a huge list of links. Continue reading 1,000,000,000,000 URL’s…
The Death of Google’s Patents
August 4, 2008 at 10:49 am | In General Interest, Legal Scholarship and Professional Development | Leave a CommentTags: google, patents
From the Legal Blog Watch: That is the title of a provocative new article arguing that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s newly developed position on patentability will invalidate countless software patents, notably among them Google’s patent on its Web searching technology. The article, written by George Washington University Law School Professor John F. Duffy, was published this week on the patent law blog Patently-O (also in PDF). Continue reading The Death of Google’s Patents…
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