Resource of the Week
Documents in the News
Legal Documents
FindLaw’s “Breaking Docs” Site and New Newsletter
If you haven’t visited FindLaw’s document archive you should. It’s a must have tool that provides access to the full-text and full-image of primary legal documents for stories that are currently or have been in the news. From the Enron investigation to the Microsoft trial you’ll find hundreds of files available in .pdf. New! FindLaw will notify you via e-mail to new documents added to the compilation. A useful, time saving, and interesting service.
To subscribe (free) to the newsletter, go to: http://newsletters.findlaw.com/ and select “Breaking Docs”.
See Also: Direct to FindLaw’s “Breaking Docs” Re: War On Terrorism
See Also: Direct to FindLaw’s “Breaking Docs” Re: Enron
See Also: Direct to FindLaw’s “Breaking Docs” Re: Microsoft

Information Industry–Micromedia
Canada’s Micromedia Acquired by ProQuest
From the news release, “ProQuest Company’s (NYSE: PQE) Information and Learning unit announced today that it has acquired Micromedia Limited, Canada’s largest developer, publisher, and distributor of value-added reference information for academic, government, and corporate markets. Founded in 1972 and headquartered in
Toronto, Micromedia licenses information from media, government, and other sources, creates abstracts, and delivers the information via the Internet, CD-ROM, microform, and print media.” “Stephen Abram, vice president of corporate development for Micromedia, commented, “We are pleased to join the ProQuest family. ProQuest has a uniqueunderstanding of the library market and the products we create and distribute.This pairing is an ideal combination for customers, publishers, and employees.” Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
See Also: Direct to Micromedia
See Also: Direct to ProQuest

Web Search–Google
On the Google Beat
1) Word from the Googleplex that search interfaces in Belarusian, Javanese, Occitan, Thai, Urdu, and Klingon are now available. You can select your interface language (72 languages now available) on the Google preferences page.
2) PC World has a brief chat with Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt.
3) Those of you who use Canada’s Sympatico.Ca portal will notice that search results are now being powered by Google. The same is true for Germany’s Web.De portal. Like most Google powered sites both of these services do not offer the Google Cache feature. Thanks to Webmaster World for the news tip.

Web Search Industry–Pay-Per-Click Engines
Trademark Infringement
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
“Search Engines Sued for Delivering Hits Based on Payment”
From Verne Kopytoff’s story, “Mark Nutritionals, a diet pill manufacturer in San Antonio, says that people who enter queries about its product, Body Solutions, are misdirected to competing Web sites that have paid for top billing. The suit claims the search engines are allowing an illegal “bait and switch.” The lawsuit — believed to be the first of its kind — is a major challenge to pay-for-placement search engines, which provide links based not on relevancy, but on who pays. The Federal Trade Commission is already investigating Web sites using this technology for not explicitly telling consumers the results are advertisements in disguise. Mark Nutritionals filed its civil suits against search engines AltaVista, Overture, FindWhat and Kanoodle. The suits, which ask for a total of $440 million in damages, were filed Monday in federal court in San Antonio.”
See Also: “Suit Targets Pay-for-Play Sites” (via News.Com)

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (3 Items)
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Crime Laboratories–United States–Statistics
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics
Survey of DNA Crime Laboratories, 2001
Summary, Spreadsheets ||| Direct to Full-Text
8 pages .pdf
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Drug Abuse–United States–Statistics
Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy
“Economic Costs of Drug Abuse in the United States, 1992-1998″
See Also: Price of Illicit Drugs: 1981 through the Second Quarter of 2000 (via ONDCP)
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Unclassified Report
Source: CIA
Full-Text Report: Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 January Through 30 June 2001

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