BlawgSearch Makes Finding Lawyer Blogs Easy
Until now, the best option to look up lawyer and law firm blogs was Blawg.org. Now, thanks to Tim Stanley, we can use BlawgSearch. This handy new search engine filters out most of the irrelevant searches, so that visitors can find strictly legal blog content.
Tim is a legend in the online world. He invented Findlaw.com, sold it to Thompson and now operates Justia.com, which designs Web sites for law firms. He's also an expert at search engine optimization.
Tim Stanley's search engine puts organization and structure onto the anarchic blogosphere. BlawgSearch is currently tracking 900 blawgs in 40 categories. It lists the most popular blawgs, recently-used blog search terms, resources for blawgers, and the option to suggest a blog to track. The search engine also lists recent posts and spotlights a "featured blogger." This week it's Michael J. Hassen of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, the author of the Class Action Defense Blog.
Blawg.org, now found at http://www.blawg.com/, just redesigned its site to display choices by category, recent posts, new blogs and "Most Popular Legal Blawgs." I found it a little difficult to navigate.
In a head-to-head test, I typed "litigation" into the search boxes of BlawgSearch and Blawg.com. BlawgSearch found 998 listings, whereas Blawg.com found an anemic 48 listings. Based on the simplicity of its interface and the powerful reach, BlawgSearch is the best option for I recommend lawyers and marketers.
Hi Larry,
Blawg.com results show matching blogs, while BlawgSearch is returning results for individual posts. Different animals entirely. :-)
The legal community is lucky to have both genres of searching, don't you think?
Steve
Thanks for the info.
As a former editor, AAG, Civil Rights lawyer and NAACP legal chair, and owner of the country's first video podcast site featuring actual courtoom video, I find this development intriguing.
Here's two blawg entries about long-running hassles over Civil Rights in New Hampshire, the second of one in which a local city official sought my assistance on a First Amendment issue after he somehow found my blawg.
http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2006/11/christopher-kings-emancipation.html
http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2006/12/nashua-city-official-asks-kingcast-and.html
And here is the reaction from a Judge who can't stand it:
http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2006/08/kingcast-hears-nh-superior-court-chief.html
""It's very unfortunate if Plaintiff decides to put this up on blogs or whatever... [query: unfortunate for whom?]... but we live in a free society....I don't need to hear from [King]... we live in a free society so we have to put up with some nonsense.. that's the way a free society works,"
Said Hillsborough Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Lynn.