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There is an interesting article in the New York Times about students and others downloading pirated books from the Internet. Titles range from best sellers, textbooks, technical manuals and more. Source: TVC Alert

Yahoo offers Search Shortcuts for a number of searches including lowest gas prices, flight trackers, dictionary definitions, sports scores, and much more. Search shortcuts are explained on the shortcut cheatsheet. Source: beSpacific

The Wisconsin State Law Library (WSLL) & Dane County Legal Resource Center (DCLRC) will be offering a number of free workshops. WSLL Workshops: Wisconsin Court System Website: What’s On It For Me? Wednesday July 7, …

New York Times articles from 1851-1995 are now available via the NYT Archive. A free search will display the citation and lead paragraph. Full text articles are available for a fee. Source: TVC Alert

Amazon.com has released a new personalized search engine called A9 which is powered by Google. Among other things, the search engine saves your previous searches, tells you which sites you have already viewed, offers info …

Vivismo, a “clustering engine” that organizes search results into clear and hierarchical folders, now provides an interface for searching FindLaw. Source: BoleyBlogs!

There is a nice article on law blogs in the Wisconsin Lawyer by Bev Butula (Vice President of the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin) The author discusses the nature of law blogs and how reading …

A recent article in CNET News.com entitled “Search engines take the stand” reports that judges are turning to Google and other search engines to check facts and look up information in cases–a trend that has …

I recently discovered a new tool called Google Alert. You can set up personalized Google searches to run at desired intervals and email you with new search results. It’s similar to WestClip or Lexis Eclipse. …

Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service, a state legislative bill tracking service is now available from the Wisconsin Legislature. Receive daily or weekly email notification of specified legislative activity including actions affecting a specific proposal, bills introduced …