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Source: Slaw, 8 March 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.
From the white paper: "Search engine marketing or SEM for short is the function of developing, submitting and positioning a Web site within the proper search engines for maximum exposure and effectiveness.
The goal of SEM, like the goal of any client development effort, is to attract more potential clients for your law firm. The goal is not simply to achieve high rankings."
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Source: FindLaw's The Practice Paper: For Solo & Small Firm Lawyers. 3 March 2010 Copyright © 2010 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>.
This post was written by Tara Calisham: "Sunmee Huh took a Google Custom Search engine and tweaked it to make it more ergonomic for older users and a little less confusing to novice searchers. The result is called Good50 and it's available at http://www.good50.com. While it's not quite perfect -- some of the functionality doesn't work for me -- it's a good start..."
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Source: ResearchBuzz, 2 February 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.
From the e-newsletter: "Wikipedia is arguably one of the most comprehensive research sources on the Internet today - but it's so darn big, it can be difficult to make sure you're getting all you can out of it. That's where Powerset comes in - it's a search engine for Wikipedia. Do a search for anything, and you'll get a listing of "Factz," and then a listing of Wikipedia articles containing the search terms. Reading the articles within Powerset is really easy - you can navigate the outline on the right, or view images or map locations related to the topic. Powerset is now owned by Microsoft, so no telling whether it will ever develop into something even more useful."
Source: Mighell, Tom. Internet Legal Research Weekly. Volume 11, Issue 4. 31 January 2010. Subscribe <http://lists.inter-alia.net/mailman/listinfo/inter-alia>.
This post was written by Tom Mighell: "I don't know about you, but sometimes I'm preparing a presentation, and I'm completely at a loss about where to begin, or where to start on a particular topic within the presentation. Surely others have done presentations on my topic before - wouldn't it be cool if I could tap into their experiences?
With SlideFinder, you can get pretty far. SlideFinder is a PowerPoint presentation search engine - it catalogs publicly available slide decks and indexes them by content. Just type in some words from your presentation, and you'll instantly see other PowerPoint presentations that include those words. Pretty slick.
Granted, you can probably just go to Google and type in "[keywords] filetype:ppt," but with SlideFinder, why bother?"
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Source: Inter Alia, 25 January 2010
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This item was written by I. Haight: "Cognition, a privately held corporation, developed and patented the Semantic Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology that aims to improve search by improving computers' ability to "understand" language. English words often have multiple meanings, and humans identify the correct meaning of a word from its context.
...When a user inputs search terms into an engine running Semantic NLP, the Cognition Parser analyzes the grammar of the sentence and matches search terms against Cognition's Semantic Map in an effort to obtain the user's intended meaning of the words from their context. Alongside the search results, Cognition displays the meaning of each word in the query based upon its contextual analysis; users can select a different meaning from a dropdown menu if the meaning is incorrect...
Caselaw.Cognition accurately analyzed all the search terms I entered and retrieved relevant results. No search engine is perfect for legal research of course--results may discuss the user's topic only parenthetically and don't help the user determine the significant cases for the development of the law. Nevertheless, Caselaw.Cognition is a strong tool for searching federal case law, with the added bonus that it is freely available. In addition to natural language searching, Cognition also supports the use of many Boolean terms, which are detailed in the "Help" section. Semantic NLP is currently available with LexisNexis Concordance and Merrill Lextranet, two commercial e-discovery and litigation management tools."
Source: "InSite." Vol.15, No.11. 25 January 2010.
This post was written by Tara Calisham: "When I first got the e-mail about Stinky Teddy, I almost threw it away. I mean, Stinky Teddy? That could be anything. But I read a little more and I was reassured. Stinky Teddy is in fact the name of David Hardtke's daughter's beloved stuffed animal. David Hardtke took the name and adopted it for his search engine that collects buzz from all over the Web. Stinky Teddy, complete with cute logo, is available at http://www.stinkyteddy.com.
Stinky Teddy is what I guess you would call real time metasearch. Enter a keyword and you'll get search results from Bing, Yahoo, VideoSearch, Twitter, Oneriot, and Collecta. These different search types are choosable from the front page via checkboxes; I did a search for superbowl.
Stinky Teddy provides the results stacked on top of each other; Web, News, Images, Twitter, Popular Links, etc. There's also a "Buzz-O-Meter" that measure how fast tweets are being generated and posts added to OneRiot. My searches brought me discussions on Twitter, fairly current news, and overview Web sites for context. The videos didn't seem particularly "real-time," but that was the only spot that seemed weak..."
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Source: ResearchBuzz, 21 January 2010
Copyright © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.This post was written by Tara Caisham: "I have been covering Twitter tools more and more on ResearchBuzz. You might be wondering why. Here's why: because Twitter, with its millions of users sending out tens of millions of tweets, is a great source to monitor for information and links. And there are some amazing people out there holding useful conversations. So you're going to get see more Twitter tool coverage here, because whether you personally want to use it or not it's an important information stream. (And you personally do not have to use it to take advantage of it as an information stream.)
I am always looking for interesting people to follow on Twitter so I appreciated learning about Twiangluate, at http://twiangulate.com. Besides sounding like it must have been founded by Elmer Fudd, Twiangulate lets you enter two or three Twitter users and find common followers between them..."
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Source: ResearchBuzz, 14 January 2010
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This post was written by Tara Calisham: "Thanks to TeleRead for the pointer to AddAll's new e-book search engine, available at http://ebooks.addall.com/. The pointer from the front page says that it's "available for testing," so perhaps it's in beta, but it worked fine for me. It searches over 30 ebook sites to find stuff for you to read.
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Source: ResearchBuzz, 7 January 2010
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Instead of a single query box, you have to tell Goby at least two of three things: what you want to do, where you want to do it, and when you want to do it....
The results show the name of the place, an image, and where the listing came from (in this case backpacker.com.) There are also additional buttons to show more info, get photos, or search for what's nearby...
Goby is a good idea, though you might have to tweak your searches a little to get what you want. I see a lot of possibilities as more APIs offer geolocation tools and services. Pictures of the
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Source: ResearchBuzz, 5 January 2010
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