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e-Book Puts Internet Investigative, Background, Legal Research at Your Fingertips | Popular Research Book “The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet” Now Available For iPad, Kindle, Nook and Other Popular E-Readers
11/29/2013 - 12:40The popular Internet research manual “The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet” is now available as an e-book in the .epub and .mobi formats. The retail price of the ebook is $49.95 at the publisher’s Web site - http://linkon.in/1fAX8mU. Discounts are available to attendees of the authors live MCLE seminars (and other owners of print copies of the latest...
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Investigative Research Database TLO Acquired by TransUnion
11/26/2013 - 12:00TLO.com is an inexpensive investigative research database (similar to Accurint) that we have written about previously, and often discuss at our seminars and in our books. TLO filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition on May 9, 2013. On Nov. 22, 2013, the credit reporting bureau TransUnion obtained Court approval to acquire TLO for $154 million. In a press release announcing the acquisition,...
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Bing Changes Web Search Interface | Completely Removes Advanced Search Option
11/25/2013 - 11:09Bing has long hidden its Advanced Search page, making it inaccessible until after you had run a search. Until this redesign, the link to the “Advanced Search" page was displayed after running a search and left clicking into the search box which contained your search terms. At that point, a drop-down menu appeared with additional suggested search terms. On the bottom right of that list was...
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Google Changes Search Page Interface - Again
11/07/2013 - 08:54Google has redesigned its search interface yet again - and not for the better. A little over two years ago, in an effort to unify the design of all of its products, Google added a standardized black bar across the top of all of those products. In that black bar (in easily ignored grey text) were links to some of Google’s most popular products and specialized databases. The goal was to...
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Fastcase Offers New Features and Services
09/09/2013 - 13:22On a recent visit to Fastcase, I noticed a number of new features and services available for users. Alerts The first was something new on the search results page—an Add Alert option. When you click the Add Alert button, you are saving your search and asking Fastcase to alert you by email whenever new documents are added to Fastcase that match your search terms. To cancel your...
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Searching Bing/USA.gov | Sometimes Very Different Than Searching Google
09/06/2013 - 11:40USA.gov’s search engine is powered by Bing, so to search effectively at USA.gov, you would need to be a proficient Bing searcher. For those of you used to Google searching, you will find that searching at Bing/USA.gov is very different in some instances. USA.gov provides no search tips and we were unable to easily find any at Bing. However, on USA.gov’s Advanced Search page (which you...
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Google Kills Another Search Feature | No More Tilde for Synonym Search
08/28/2013 - 16:35One of the most popular "hidden" Google search feature we discuss in our live Cybersleuth Investigative Research MCLE Seminars is the ability to use the tilde (~) in a Google search to indicate that you want Google to return results for the keyterm you've entered AND any synonyms that Google automatically recognizes. Unfortunately, Google has recently done away with this feature. Google...
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Facebook Releases First-Ever Government Request Transparency Report
08/27/2013 - 11:29Facebook has released its first-ever "transparency report" detailing the numbers of requests for subscriber information it has received from the world's governments. This first report covers only the first six months of 2013 (January 1-June 30, 2013). According to the Facebook report, police and other governmental agencies in the United States are, by far, the leaders in requests, asking for...
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Investigative Research Database TLO Offers Vehicle Sightings Database
07/31/2013 - 12:45The fee-based online investigative research database TLO.com has unveiled a searchable database of motor vehicle license plates. The collection encompasses "a massive database of one BILLION vehicle sightings and the addition of up to 50 million new sightings each month," according to a company press release announcing the new addition. "Vehicle Sightings provides valuable information for...
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Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch Named to Fastcase 50
07/16/2013 - 11:25Internet For Lawyers principals Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch have been selected as 2013 Fastcase 50 award recipients. The peer-nominated award recognizes "50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law." Industry leaders, law firm managers, legal technology influencers, law school professors, and entrepreneurs around the world recommended a...