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Google recently announced that they are beta testing a new video search engine. Funny thing is – there’s no video. It is actually is more of a tv listing search engine which contains still images and some closed caption text from recent tv programs. But useful, nonetheless. Perhaps you remember seeing a story on a …

Westlaw has added a new feature called Smart Tools which offers suggestions for misspelled or incomplete searches. According to Westlaw, “Smart Tools offer you alternatives for terms that appear out of context even though spelled correctly (statute of limitations for statue of limitations). They flag misspelled words and acronyms (HIPAA for HIPPA). And Smart Tools …

Justia.com, a web design company specializing in law firms, is offering free simple web sites for lawyers and law firms. The basic template design features: Firm Home Page Firm Profile Page Firm Location Page Practice Area Profiles Attorney Profiles Web Resources Page Legal Articles Section W3C Web standards design & layout U.S. 508 and W3C’s …

GovTrack.us is a new, useful, and free federal legislation tracking tool. Users can choose to track legislation by legislator name, bill number, and subject. Results are available for delivery via email or RSS. Full text searching is available for bills and debate (via the Congressional Record). Legislator voting records and campaign contribution data is also …

A group of senators from North Dakota – both republican and democrat – have started ND Legislative Blog. Very interesting. In addition to covering official legislative affairs, these senators are expressing opinions and sharing details about their personal lives. Here are some excerpts from an AP News story: The five senators began blogging when The …

The Library of Congress has redesigned portions of the legislative information site, THOMAS. The main change is the capability of searching the text of legislation across multiple congresses (all or selectively) from 1989 (101st Congress) to the present. Search screens for the Congressional Record and Congressional Record Index have also been upgraded. For more information …

Last week the IRS announced that it was making tax preparation software available to the public at no cost. Free electronic filing will also be available. Read more at Findlaw.

PrismLegal has compiled a list (albeit a very short list) of large law firms (NLJ 250) with firm-branded blogs. They are: Telecom Law Blog by Davis Wright Tremaine Holland and Hart’s Rocky Mountain Health Care Blog by Holland & Hart The Environment by Lowenstein Sandler Electronic Discovery Law by Preston Gates Ellis Source: The E-Law …

From ABA Site-tation: People Who Need People (or Information About People) – ERsys.com Chosen by the American Library Association as one of the best free reference sites of 2004, www.ersys.com compiles demographic information on over 2600 American communities. Choose a state from the home page; a list of cities for that state appears. The opening …

askSam is offering a free database containing the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Individual sections of the legislation are divided into separate documents. The database and free viewer must be downloaded to your own computer. Source: ResearchBuzz