sitetruth
08-06-2008, 02:36 PM
There are several search engines aimed at lawyers. Classically, these were pay services, and expensive ones. But that's changing.
http://www.precydent.com/ is a legal case search engine supported by Google AdWords. It's ad-heavy (17 Google ads on one page), but the results are OK. They're better than http://www.fastcase.com, which is a low-end pay legal search engine priced around $100 per month. The classic systems, Lexis and Westlaw, are pay-per-view, can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars per month, and even charge extra for printing. Now they face price competition.
There have been a few free legal search engines for years, like Findlaw, but they didn't have very comprehensive coverage. Usually, they only had what was already on-line somewhere else. The new ones have better coverage.
So here's another type of vertical search, one with a valuable customer base.
http://www.precydent.com/ is a legal case search engine supported by Google AdWords. It's ad-heavy (17 Google ads on one page), but the results are OK. They're better than http://www.fastcase.com, which is a low-end pay legal search engine priced around $100 per month. The classic systems, Lexis and Westlaw, are pay-per-view, can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars per month, and even charge extra for printing. Now they face price competition.
There have been a few free legal search engines for years, like Findlaw, but they didn't have very comprehensive coverage. Usually, they only had what was already on-line somewhere else. The new ones have better coverage.
So here's another type of vertical search, one with a valuable customer base.