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Google Powered Search of the Pennsylvania Statutes (and Constitution)
09/16/2010 - 10:46In response to a tweet yesterday afternoon mentioning the awkwardness of the existing search offered by the state of Pennsylvania for the online version of its statutes, we created a Google-powered custom search of the state's statute pages/files. It allows you to search the Pennsylvania statutes with all of the familiar Google Boolean connectors, syntax, etc. This custom-search is...
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Google Introduces "Google Instant" - "Search Before You Type"
09/08/2010 - 10:55This morning, Google announced a major innovation to the way it processes queries and delivers results - Google Instant. Google Instant takes the auto-complete, predictive suggestions that automatically display under the Google search box as you type your keywords one step further. Google Instant not only displays those predictive suggestions for your search, it also displays a full list of...
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Send Scheduled E-mails in Gmail With Boomerang Plug-In
09/07/2010 - 13:04Boomerang for Gmail is a third-party plug-in for the Firefox and Chrome Web browsers that lets you schedule when you send and receive email messages. The plug-in is still in beta and is only available via invitation - however, in our tests it works as described. It works with Gmail accounts and Google Apps for Domains Gmail email accounts. The plug-in is developed by Baydin Software...
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Gmail Priority Inbox Comes to Google Apps Mail Accounts
09/03/2010 - 11:19Earlier this week Google announced an innovative new (automatic) filtering feature to its Gmail service to help users better organize their incoming messages and determine which should be read first - and which could wait. Named "Priority Inbox," Google described it as "a new view of your inbox that automatically helps you focus on your most important messages. Gmail has always...
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Google Proximity Search Site (GAPS) No Longer Functional
07/01/2010 - 13:45One feature that Google does not offer in its Web search is the ability to create a well-defined proximity search. Unlike paid search products, we cannot indicate how close we want our keywords to be to one another in search results. While Google does offer the asterisk (*) to take the place of one (or more than one) word in a search (e.g., Mark * Rosch), we cannot indicate that we want...
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Google Voice Now Open and Free to All - in the United States
06/22/2010 - 13:30This morning, Google announced that its Google Voice service is now available to anyone in the United States. Google Voice is Google’s free telephone service offering a wide range of calling and voicemail services. Its best-known feature is probably the ability to simultaneously forward incoming calls to multiple phone numbers, like a switchboard. You can configure your...
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LegalTech West Coast Returns to Los Angeles | Registration Discounts Available
06/21/2010 - 14:39On June 23 and 24, 2010, ALM’s LegalTech, the largest annual gathering of legal professionals on the West Coast, returns to Los Angeles. This year marks the conference's fourth consecutive year at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles. LegalTech is the one of the largest legal technology events of the year, and highly regarded among those in the...
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Free Productivity Power Tools From Google
06/04/2010 - 15:41Since its launch more than a decade ago, Google has become synonymous with Internet search. But since 2004, as many lawyers know, Google has also been expanding its reach by offering free productivity applications and services like Gmail and Google Docs. And it continues to innovate with amazing regularity, launching different innovations not just to its search features, but also to its...
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Google Allows Further Customization/Personalization of Default Search Page
06/02/2010 - 13:08In what appears to be a tip of the hat (and a bit of one-upsmanship) to Bing's image-rich search page, Google has announced the ability personalize your default view of the Google search page with your own photo. While Bing has become known for the daily rotation of lush images (and the informative annotations that accompany them) on its homepage, users have no control over the selection of those...
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Study Finds More Than Half of Adult Internet Users Search for Information About Themselves
05/26/2010 - 11:33A new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project finds that more than half of American adults who are online are conducting search engine searches to locate information posted about themselves on the Internet. While the concept of "ego-surfing" is nothing new, the study indicates an increase in awareness by adults of the volume of information that can...