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Beyond Google and Yahoo:Advanced Search
Tom MighellCowles & Thompson, P.C.Dallas, TX
Fort Worth Paralegal AssociationJanuary 25, 2007
 
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Beyond Google and Yahoo:Advanced Search
Introduction
It was only a few years ago that I was giving presentations on Internet research and asking,"How many of you are using Google? Two? Three? Well, you should all be using this terrificsearch engine -- it's the best way to find information on the Internet."Back then, it was true -- search engines like Google and Yahoo! were the go-to services for yourlegal research. While they remain extremely valuable, and maintain an important place in aresearcher's toolkit, Web search tools have become more numerous, varied, and focused onspecific topics, content, and even locations. This makes it both easier and more difficult to makethe right decision in choosing search-related services and applications. In this article, I’ll reviewand recommend services, strategies, and resources to help you locate the information you wantand need, in less time and using a more precise process.
Articles and Periodical Literature
. We often want to obtain copies of articles of whichwe have been told, heard about, or seen referenced in other sources that are specific to ourrequirements. Using one of several sites that allow users to query large databases of articles andperiodical literature is often the path of least resistance to this information. I recommend thatyou try all of the following sites, each of which offer field searching to limit requests by date,author, subject, phrase, and publication.
 
 
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Bilingual Search
 
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is a nifty tool that takes yoursearch and translates it into eight different languages – you get a split screen of Google results,with English results on the left and your translated results on the right.
Blog Search
. The “blogosphere” is now considered to be a fantastic source of information,
 
Blogdigger
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http://www.blogdigger.com
and can often be as (or more) up-to-date on breaking news as some of the news sites mentionedin this article. There are also tools available to search RSS feeds, or to create RSS feeds thatliterally “deliver” the research to you. Here are a few of our favorites:
 
 
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– you can create an RSS feed to monitor yoursearches here.
 
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Fagan Finder Weblogs & RSS Search (http://www.faganfinder.com/blogs
 
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– news, blogs, and podcasts
 
Google Blog Search (http://blogsearch.google.com
 
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– currently indexing over 10 billion pages.
 
 
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– filtered news from reliable sources
 
 
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– create RSS feeds on the topics of your choice.
 
 
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– billed as the “RSS Search Company.”
 
Technorati
 
 
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– currently monitoring over 28 millionweblogs.
 
Yahoo Blog Search
– Yahoo’s product doesn’t have its own page; interestingly, it’sincluded in a box as part of the Yahoo News search results. Arguably, this is where blogsearch results should be.
Business Publications
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is a search engine forbusiness publications. You can browse categories ranging from Economics to SOHO and SmallBusiness, or search this collection of articles and publications. Another interesting search tool is
 
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, from the Smeal College of Business at PennState University. It focuses entirely on academic business documents, and crawls websites of academia, commerce, research institutes, and government agencies for relevant documents.
Copyright Search
– want to see if someone is copying your firm web site? Just plug yourURL into
 
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, and it will search for instances of copyrightinfringement on the Web. If instead you want to search the entire Copyright Law of the U.S.,you might try the
 
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In fact, there are a number of free, searchable databases of legal opinions and various legaldocuments at the
 
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