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Last October, I wrote about AfterVote – a “social search engine.” AfterVote has been re-branded as “Scour.” It is a “meta” search engine, meaning that it simultaneously searches the three major search engines: Google, Yahoo, and MSN. It still has Web 2.0 features like commenting and voting, and allows sorting results by search engine ranking.

Scour has apparently eliminated the ability to sort by “Diggs,” the voting unit of measure for stories submitted to Digg.com (see “Can You Digg It” for more on Digg.com). Also apparently gone is the setting page, which allows the user to set the weight of search results from the three major search engines. In exchange for losing those features, you gain a reward system. Registered Scour users can earn points for searching. They also earn points for searches performed by people they refer to Scour. Seems a little pyramid scheme-ish. Points are translated in to “cash” in the form of a Visa gift card. There is a handy calculator for projecting the amount of cash you can earn based on the number of searches and referrals.

This is interesting, I guess, but I am more intrigued by the visual search engine, called Searchme, which I wrote about here.

Robert Ambrogi has written more extensively about Search me, including the new “stacks” feature. Check that out here.

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Everyone’s favorite online business networking website, LinkedIn, has had groups for quite a while. They have also had a groups directory for a while – but it has never been searchable. Up until now (well, tomorrow really), the only ways to learn about interesting groups that you might want to join were word of mouth, or noticing a group badge on a someone’s profile.

LinkedIn announced that on Friday, July 11 (also known as Apple iPhone 3G Day), it will add a seachable group directory. Now you can run a search like “knowledge management” and you’ll find groups, including my favorite: [shamelss plug alert] “Knowledge Management for Legal Professionals.”

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It was only a matter of time before the smart people at LinkedIn, the social business networking site, asked the smart people at Common Craft to help explain and promote their site. Below is Common Craft’s new video, “LinkedIn in Plain English.” And when you go check out LinkedIn, be sure to join the group called Knowledge Management for Legal Professionals. And, of course, who could forget the Facebook group of the same name?

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Here are Common Craft’s other Plain English videos I’ve covered.

And be sure to check out Doug Cornelius’ coverage of this story and the very interesting Martindale-Hubbell – LinkedIn integration. Kevin O’Keefe broke the news about Martindale and LinkedIn: read it here.

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Powerset, the semantic search engine that only (for now) searches Wikipedia, announced that Microsoft will be acquiring it. May I be the first to speculate on names? Oh, let me think… MicroSet? PowerSoft?

LawyerKM :: Knowledge Management & Technology for Lawyers and Law Firms