Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006

Using Google for Legal Research

Linda Keller and Ben Templin Assistant Professors

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Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2006

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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

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Hypertext Matching Analysis

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PageRank

Web Site A

“ICC”

Web Site B

“ICC”

Web Site 1

Web Site 2

Web Site 3

Web Site 4

Web Site 5

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Basic Search Interface with Toolbar

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Advanced Search Interface

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Basic Search Functions• Uganda ICC

AND command

• Uganda OR SomaliaOR command

• Court -criminalNot command

• “Chapter I”Exact Phrase

• Chapter +IInclude a common

word that is normally excluded

• ~human rightsSearches for

synonyms

• “Three * Mice”Wildcard searches

any word

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Manipulating the Search

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Tutorial 1

• Site: command

• “Search within Results” link

• “Repeat Search with Omitted Results Included” link

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Back to Results Page

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Search within Results

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Results of Search within Results

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Tutorial 2

• Intitle: command

• Site: command

• Daterange: command

• Cached link

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Date command

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Using Daterange: with Julian Dates for January 2006

January 1, 2006

January 31, 2006

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Daterange: Command

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The Missing Link

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Cached Link

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Cached Web pages

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Tutorial 3

• Site: command

• Inurl: command

• “Translate this page” link

• Language Tools

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Inurl: Command

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Misc. Functions

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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

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