Jureeka! Now Powered by Cornell's LII

It appears that Jureeka! is now powered by Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII). Jureeka! is a Firefox plugin that turns legal citations in web pages into hyperlinks that point to online legal source material. It’s …

Google De-Enhancements

A few weeks ago I posted that Google had discontinued the Google Uncle Sam search engine for government documents. Law Librarian Blog reports that Google has, unfortunately, discontinued a few more things: “The option for …

Google Pulls the Plug on Uncle Sam

From Government Computer News: Saying that search technology has made some specialized tools unnecessary, Google has discontinued operation the Google.com/UncleSam tool for searching government websites…. “Today, search quality has advanced tremendously, and based on our …

House Votes for Cuts to FDsys

H.R. 2551, passed by the House of Representatives, would eliminate funding for GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys). “Kirsten Clark, the regional depository librarian at the University of Minnesota and the chair of ALA’s Government Documents …