Search Engine Watch (reporting on EVERYTHING related to search engines) claims that the University of Michigan Documents Center is “one of the most comprehensive sources for finding government and statistical information on the...
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What happens to a news story that turns out to be, well, untrue? It appears in the “mistakes happen” story site at Regret The Error. Reference this site as part of your fact checking of web research results you provide...
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Website traffic and targeted search results depend on matching indexed keywords. The Overture indexed keyword matching tool is a fun way to find out the search terms people are entering into search engines. This could be particularly helpful when choosing...
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Hot On the Press: Legal Pretexting. The FTC’s regulator talks about the uses of pretext to gain information. Read about it. Joel Winston (I’m not sure what position or authority he has at the FTC.) tosses out this little tidbit:...
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Online libraries provide free research: Public libraries offer searchable databases for researching background on businesses and individuals, and downloading full text articles. An added tool that is often overlooked is a real time saver: the research librarian. The large metropolitan...
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Massachusetts private investigators are working pro-bono to break open cold cases that the police have left for dead. As you would expect, the club of blue is not welcoming the help. The new effort launched by the Licensed Private Detectives...
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~ The Ca Public Records Act is a means to gather name and address information not otherwise available. An Oakland, California Superior Court judge ruled that the Ca Dept. of Corrections was required to release names and addresses of parolees...
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State Anti-Terrorism Law Prosecuting Street Gangs: In the wake of the September 2001 terrorist attack, New York passed a state law that parallels the Federal Anti-Terrorism statute. New York prosecutors are invoking the state law to round up whole street...
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Police “mug shots” are a public record but, then they’re not, if the Sheriff so decides. So goes the two-sided Attorney General Opinion on the public releasability of police booking photos, seemingly like every other government record subject to Government...
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Search Engine News: Once again, the lowly researcher is reminded by Search Engine Watch that Google is not the uber alles web search engine. See for yourself how the various dominant search engines rank the same keywords and phrases. Apparently...
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