Are Lexis turning over a new leaf in 2009.
Doug Cornelius at KM Space Blog reports that
LexisNexis has put out their Lexis Web Search in beta release at : http://www.lexisweb.com.
He reports that the product includes important, legal-oriented Web content selected and validated by the LexisNexis editorial staff.
And goes on to say
At first I thought Lexis had merely wrapped a frame around a Google Custom Site Search, like I did when I put together the KM Sites Search. But I saw some great tools to help you deal with the search results:
- Navigation based on Lexis Search by Topic or Headnote legal classification system
- Navigation based on Lexis LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology
- Navigation based on legal citations
- Recommended list of sources to search in LexisNexis
Those are the kinds of things I saw in great enterprise search tools like Vivisimo. Maybe this is a by-product of the partnership among Vivisimo and Lexis for Interwoven’s Universal Search.
It is a great free product from Lexis. (It is odd to put "Lexis" and "free" in the same sentence.) There are links to premium lexis content and a Google adwords panel. Perhaps that will be enough to support the creation and maintenance of Lexis Web Search.
