Great Tips on Google

AJ Levy, of Out-of-the-Box Lawyering, has posted a great paper on out-of-the-box ways to use Google. I fancy myself a pretty solid Google searcher and I still learned a lot. Here's a teaser:

If you want to expand your search by adding alternative words in your search, Google has a command that tells Google to search for synonyms. To use it, place a ~ (a tilde) in front of the words that you want to have Google automatically search for synonyms. Thus, ~attorney would search for attorney as well as lawyer.

This is definitely a feature that Westlaw should provide to further expand the utility of headnotes.

Posted by AJR at August 11, 2004 06:28 PM