Although not relating directly to what I do, Google continues to amaze in what it is wanting and willing to do and the information that it is willing to provide for free to people over the Internet.
I have got to admit that I have begun, for example, to research my legal issues on Google before resorting to my legal research sites. How does this help? Google is better at helping to broadly understand the issue so I can narrow the search using legal phraseology on the case law sites. You can often and easily find the key cases that need to be reviewed, legal papers that discuss the subject in depth, DOJ papers to staff attorneys, and even lawyer websites and blogs that discuss particular issues.
How long until Google takes on the legal research sites? After all, Google already has the technology and the search capability. It only needs to access the cases just like all of the pay for view providers.
Now Google has introduced Google Patent Search. It is in beta presently, but when you think that you can research patents online -- FOR FREE -- it is pretty amazing.
When will Google take on legal research sites? It already has. See my post: http://www.legaline.com/2006/09/google-news-archive-searches-caselaw.html
Posted by: Bob Ambrogi | December 27, 2006 at 04:55 PM