Legal research can be the bane of every lawyer and law student's existence. From poring over textbooks in law libraries to trawling through cases online and offline to prepare for submissions, it is a process that can take hours. To ease the burden, a group of local entrepreneurs - some of whom are former lawyers - have designed a website that helps lawyers search faster, keep notes and organise their research better. Launched in January, Intelllex, meaning "intelligent law", has already attracted more than 1,000 users - about half of whom are lawyers and the rest law students. The service is currently free, but a subscription fee is likely to be introduced next year.

As data grows, organizations are increasingly seeking for an intelligent information discovery and analytics platform that goes beyond keyword searches and better understands users' intent. With Google Now and Cortana, advanced question answering systems are starting to become ubiquitous. Recently, Gartner has also started discussing'insight engines,' a new technology that can provide natural, total, and proactive search, analytics, and discovery. Please let us know the email address we should be sending a PDF copy of the white paper to. A download link will be immediately emailed to you - please check your junk mail if you have a strong email filter.

The World Wide Web (WWW) allows the people to share the information (data) from the large database repositories globally. The amount of information grows billions of databases. We need to search the information will specialize tools known generically search engine. There are many of search engines available today, retrieving meaningful information is difficult. However to overcome this problem in search engines to retrieve meaningful information intelligently, semantic web technologies are playing a major role.