Tim Wu announces AltLaw, a search engine for legal decisions. This is a fantastic idea. I wonder why Google hasn’t jumped on it yet. The case coverage is still somewhat limited—Supreme Court decisions only go back to 1991—but it’s an excellent start, and I imagine they’ll be adding additional cases over time.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.