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Using Google for Legal Research. Linda Keller and Ben Templin Assistant Professors. Indexing. International: 1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20 5,590 million Criminal: 1, 2, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20 421 million Court: 1, 3, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19
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Using Google for Legal Research Linda Keller and Ben TemplinAssistant Professors Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Indexing • International: 1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20 • 5,590 million • Criminal: 1, 2, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20 • 421 million • Court: 1, 3, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19 • 869 million • International & Criminal & Court: 1, 7, 13, 19 • 73 million “International Criminal Court”: 7, 19 • 7 million Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Hypertext Matching Analysis Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Web Site 2 Web Site 4 Web Site 1 Web Site 3 Web Site 5 PageRank Web Site A “ICC” Web Site B “ICC” Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Basic Search Interface with Toolbar Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Advanced Search Interface Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Basic Search Functions • Chapter +I • Include a common word that is normally excluded • ~human rights • Searches for synonyms • “Three * Mice” • Wildcard searches any word • Uganda ICC • AND command • Uganda OR Somalia • OR command • Court -criminal • Not command • “Chapter I” • Exact Phrase Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Manipulating the Search Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Tutorial 1 • Site: command • “Search within Results” link • “Repeat Search with Omitted Results Included” link Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Back to Results Page Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Search within Results Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Results of Search within Results Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Tutorial 2 • Intitle: command • Site: command • Daterange: command • Cached link Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Date command Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Using Daterange: with Julian Dates for January 2006 January 31, 2006 January 1, 2006 Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Daterange: Command Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
The Missing Link Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Cached Link Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Cached Web pages Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Tutorial 3 • Site: command • Inurl: command • “Translate this page” link • Language Tools Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Inurl: Command Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Misc. Functions Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006
Links for More Help • Google Help / Basics: http://www.google.com/help/operators.html • Advanced Operators: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/operators.html • Advanced Search Made Easy: http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html • Overview of Search Features: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html • Google Help / Cheat Sheet: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/cheatsheet.html • Tips & Tricks: http://www.google.com/librariancenter/downloads/Tips_Tricks_85x11.pdf • Language Tools: http://www.google.com/language_tools • Technology Overview: http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/tech.html • For Librarians: http://www.google.com/librariancenter/index.html • For Scholars: http://scholar.google.com/ • For Webmasters: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/ • For Programmers: http://www.google.com/apis/index.html Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006