Friday, November 9, 2007

How does WebPlus work?

We're thrilled to see so many bloggers covering WebPlus in their posts. Many bloggers wonder aloud: what's going on behind the scenes with WebPlus?

In short, we're using intellectual property developed by Thomson (including content, editorial, technology and people assets) to make open Web searching better for our academic and professional customers.

For example, we treat searches and result ranking for the person context differently than we do the legal issue, company or government entity contexts. That's because we know what legal professionals want when they search the web for this type of information. How do we know? Because we're legal professionals too.

I'm sure you'll understand that I can't go into full detail here about our secret sauce, and I certainly understand that information professionals want to know what they're getting so I'll offer this:

WebPlus returns the most relevant 250 results ...

  • from a comprehensive Web search powered by our partner Microsoft Live Search

  • ranked in an order determined by WebPlus editors and our proprietary ranking algorithm

  • which gets better the more legal customers use it

Speaking of getting better, do you have some feedback on how we can make WebPlus more relevant and useful for legal professionals? We'd love to hear it!

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