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Targeting Legal Authority with LexisWeb

Have you tried the new search engine from Lexis? It's called LexisWeb, and its tag line is "target legal authority on the web." The interface is pretty interesting -- very spare and uncluttered. Just enter your search terms, and you'll be taken to a results page with lots of options. At the top of your results page are links to "LexisNexis Recommended Sources" -- links to sources on LexisNexis that you can access if you have an account. Below that are the web results, and in my searches I find that many of the results come from law blogs. Click on the link to any result, and a preview screen pops right up. What I like most, however, are the filters to the left. You can narrow down your search results by a number of subject areas -- legal topics, subject, geography, citations, companies, people, keywords, or source. Choose as many as you want, and watch the number of hits decrease accordingly. Nifty. Lexis says that "during the beta offer....all search activities will be available to you free of charge." Which suggests that at some point they're going to charge for this search engine. That's a shame -- but take advantage of it while you can.

Full post as published by Inter Alia on September 30, 2008 (boomark / email).