Comments on: Google Puts Supreme Court Opinions Online http://www.openculture.com/2009/11/google_puts_supreme_court_opinions_online.html The best free cultural & educational media on the web Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:44:53 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: J. Quinn Public http://www.openculture.com/2009/11/google_puts_supreme_court_opinions_online.html/comment-page-1#comment-8133 J. Quinn Public Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:38:08 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=5696#comment-8133 Wimberely, you're correct: after all, Oyez has SCOTUS opinions plus seachable legal opinions and journals, and federal court opinions, and state court opinions. Oh wait, does it? Averting your eyeballs from ads is a small price to pay for avoiding the wexis/nestlaw extortion. Wimberely, you’re correct: after all, Oyez has SCOTUS opinions plus seachable legal opinions and journals, and federal court opinions, and state court opinions.

Oh wait, does it?

Averting your eyeballs from ads is a small price to pay for avoiding the wexis/nestlaw extortion.

]]> By: Laura Wimberley http://www.openculture.com/2009/11/google_puts_supreme_court_opinions_online.html/comment-page-1#comment-8130 Laura Wimberley Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:45:32 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=5696#comment-8130 This has already been done for the US Supreme Court, and very well, at oyez.org. Oyez is easy to use, has lots of additional content, including summaries and audio of oral arguments, and is ad-free and Creative Commons licensed for its original content. Plus, you can search by court term, Justice, and the name of the legal counsel. So I'm not sure what's so great about Google searching public domain content and adding advertisements to it. Maybe this is useful because most people go to Google first, but it's not new. This has already been done for the US Supreme Court, and very well, at oyez.org. Oyez is easy to use, has lots of additional content, including summaries and audio of oral arguments, and is ad-free and Creative Commons licensed for its original content. Plus, you can search by court term, Justice, and the name of the legal counsel.

So I’m not sure what’s so great about Google searching public domain content and adding advertisements to it. Maybe this is useful because most people go to Google first, but it’s not new.

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