Problem with legal research before
Legal research in India was slow and scattered. You had to open multiple sites for judgments, bare acts, articles and blogs. Blog search engines were heavy and took time to load. Indiankanoon was useful but not categorized. Students and lawyers wasted time filtering irrelevant results. There was need for one platform that was fast, clean and organized.
What lawkhoj.com offers
Lawkhoj.com launched with Rahul Sarin to solve this. It is customized search engine for Indian law and also for UK, US and world law. Separate engines: Indian Legal Search, Openly Accessible Journals Law Khoj, U.K. Law Khoj, U.S. Law Khoj, World Law Khoj and Cornell US engine. Website loads fast. Interface is simple with no clutter. Every site in index is labelled. You can search only government sites, only blogs, only judgments or only legislation. You can also choose free or paid content.
Features that help lawyers and students
Three help pages added. "About" explains project. "How Law Khoj Works" explains technology. "How To Make Your Searches More Relevant" gives practical tips. Categorisation is key. Instead of searching entire internet, you search only relevant bucket. This improves accuracy. For example, if you need Supreme Court judgment on contract, select judgments category and avoid blogs and news.
Future roadmap and request
We will keep expanding index. More Indian and foreign sites will be added. Aim is to make Indian legal research most convenient. As we are in beta, there may be errors. Please report via Contact Us page. Suggestions on websites to add, search relevance, or UI are welcome. Your support for this blog is appreciated and we hope you will extend same to Law Khoj.
Moving away from blog search
To avoid confusion, search engines will be removed from this blog. Please use lawkhoj.com directly for better experience. Try it and let us know. Legal research should be about content, not about fighting with slow websites.
Conclusion
Indian legal research lawkhoj search engine 2010 solves big problem of speed and categorisation. It brings all legal material in one place with clean interface. We request all readers to try Law Khoj and help us improve it further.
