Official Google Blog: Adding search power to public data

Official Google Blog: Adding search power to public data. Most lawyers already know that the Internet is the best source of the information and data that lawyers need to be effective practitioners. However, since the dawn of the Internet age in the early 90's, the trick has been to find pertinent data wherever it hides. Google has certainly been a boon to researchers, with its easy to use and accurate search engine. Now, Google is mining the depths of the taxpayer funded data machines of Government, and has made available a new, specialized search engine designed to search public databases that are sometimes inaccessible, even to clever Internet sleuths. Do you want accurate data on unemployment in a particular geographical area? Google Public Data search is the place to go.