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New Players Offer Deep Web Access to Facilitate Online Job Search

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  • “Simply Hired and Indeed, upstarts less than a year old, are getting attention for their Google-like approach to helping people find jobs. They do for job listings what Google does for general information — crawl or “scrape” listings from thousands of sites and create a free, searchable index in one spot.” [Link]
  • Duo’s search engine scours ‘hidden’ sites: “Glenbrook, run by a father-daughter team, demonstrated its technology by building a search engine that scoops up job listings from the databases of various Web sites, something the company claims most search engines cannot do.”

    • Study Reveals Extremely Limited Scope of Legal Citations

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    Smith, Thomas A.C., The Web of Law (Spring 2005). San Diego Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-11. “I present in this article the preliminary results of a significant citation study of nearly four million American legal precedents, which was undertaken at my request by the LexisNexis corporation using the Shepard’s citation service. This study demonstrates… Continue Reading