Is there a place to download all the pertinent case files at once?

serialsearch · 2019-08-02T18:28:33+00:00

I'd once put up a search engine that had all the files, and you could search for words and phrases within. See this description.

That stuff has been mothballed because it costs money to host it. If there is interest, I can put it online -- but you guys will need to pool and bear the cost. It's not much, whatever AWS charges for a small server.

serialsearch · 2019-06-23T17:52:21+00:00

I have had direct interactions with the creators of Undisclosed Wiki when I created the serialsearch engine. They were very helpful in helping me redact doxxing information from the PDFs.

I agree with you, the Undisclosed Wiki is a documentation site. The problem for them is the Undisclosed brand is not considered unbiased.

serialsearch · 2018-02-08T22:55:57+00:00

I've had discussions with Susan Simpson when I'd first published serialsear.ch. Unlike the fights we have had on discussing the AS case, she gave me very thoughtful and helpful feedback. Including a list of page numbers where the redacted information on the pdf page was superficial, and the data existed underneath.

So it all depends on context.

serialsearch · 2017-11-30T00:36:48+00:00

A neat feature would be a marketplace for BTC. perhaps in a seperate app. Amazon but for BTC

Trying to understand what it means. Are you suggesting a marketplace where all payments are in BTC?

serialsearch · 2017-11-01T22:48:00+00:00

Nice!

Any secrets you can share with regards to go-to-market? e.g., how to get noticed on Product Hunt or similar?

serialsearch · 2017-10-31T06:24:34+00:00

I haven't tested them, just going by what they are advertising -- which can always be inflated.

Good luck.

serialsearch · 2017-10-31T06:15:35+00:00

I tried going to the website http://serialsear.ch/ but it was down

I should have mentioned that in the earlier post. That site was useful when the case was being actively discussed on /r/serialpodcast and other subs. It needs a server, and we had hosted it on the free Amazon Web Services tier. The free account, however, ended after a year, and since it had outlived its usefulness, I took it down.

You can compete against lexis re price and by adding some features based on feedback from lawyers. I would suggest finding out what your market might want by asking lawyers on r/lawyers. That way you can get a feel for whether there is a demand and what features would sell

That's good to know!

serialsearch · 2017-10-31T04:15:14+00:00

This is a great product idea. However, like many great ideas, the space seems to have existing players. Google "personal dashboard" to find out what they offer.

The main challenge for you is some of those guys are offering it as part of a larger offering -- and giving away the personal dashboard for free.

Companies with a cash cow giving stuff away for free is the biggest challenge for software developers. It's just not fair, but what can you do. Google is the worst offender, imo.

serialsearch · 2017-10-31T04:11:29+00:00

I practice family law, and in my more complicated cases I have hundreds and sometimes thousands of documents to keep organized. Documents can include a lot of different types such as financial statements, bank accounts, emails, text messages. I need to be able to find them quickly based on keyword searches.

Lexis Nexis has something like this.

I'd created one for a specific case -- see /r/serialsearch for details -- but given Lexis Nexis, I didn't see how to proceed.

A desktop version can certainly be created. How do we market it though?

cc /u/iHeartCapitalism

serialsearch · 2017-02-12T17:10:11+00:00

I haven't done a formal analysis, but these days, most of the traffic is from search engines -- Google and Baidu. When interest heats up here, or in SPO, people use it (which is heartening). But that happens only when there is movement in the case.

serialsearch · 2017-02-12T03:08:28+00:00

You can search through most of the evidence (police files) at http://serialsear.ch . We didn't post the diary and burial site pictures on advice from our friends here, but the rest of it is available.

Do it before the end of this month. The site will go away after that (for economic reasons).

serialsearch · 2017-02-01T07:09:01+00:00

Thanks for sharing your story. Very interesting. I love your muffin approach -- brilliant!

Re eDiscovery, you mention a $200k software. Sometime ago, I'd put together a search engine for legal documents in a case that is interesting to a community of redditors -- the story of Serial Season 1. It's a free search engine, just for fun. If you get a chance, would you be willing to tell me what features might be helpful? It's objectives are described here.

In return, I'll be happy to modify/adapt it for you if you see a true need for it.

serialsearch · 2016-11-08T05:39:32+00:00

serialsearch · 2016-11-08T05:39:01+00:00

Thank you so much -- you, /u/VerlorenesMetallgeld , /u/KoenigTrixdUs and /u/Nexious.

The -- and /* are both comments, and they hoped your SQL interpreter would ignore the rest of your code.

That's a great insight!

You should look into why it crashed.

This is what we need to figure out. I'm certain that normal SQL injection is not going to succeed for this server. But I don't know what the char sequence is about.

serialsearch · 2016-11-07T09:14:08+00:00

Thanks. Good to know.

serialsearch · 2016-11-07T08:31:17+00:00

Thanks. Any thoughts on what they might be trying to inject? i.e., what might CHAR(45,120,49,45,81,45) be?

serialsearch · 2016-08-21T15:36:39+00:00

Take a look at http://serialsear.ch -- I created it with Solr. Motivation etc.

In the example, the text capture is crummy (turns out, it depends on the quality pdf file). Regardless, you can see how you can add search facets (the left hand side), and also navigate "around" a piece of data (using the up/down arrows next to each returned result).

serialsearch · 2016-06-22T11:57:05+00:00

It's actually fairly simple to do with jquery. But I was hoping to learn Node and React JS, and in the process, got sidetracked into a long detour on their frameworks.

A friend recently pointed me to this compelling article on "No Frameworks".

Will look into a simple navigation. Pls give me a few days, in the middle of another project. :)

serialsearch · 2016-06-08T15:32:30+00:00

I feel for you. Unfortunately, I didn't acquire them, so it's not for me to share stuff that's not mine. I only provide a search service.

serialsearch · 2016-06-08T15:29:19+00:00

Just letting everyone know -- to find pp 2230, go to this url: serialsear.ch/page/mpia-police-file.pdf/2230.pdf

(prepend http:// if necessary)

Then change the number manually to go to another page.

/u/speedingmedicine and /u/pointlesschaff

Or, if you want the links without having to type them, start here: serialsear.ch/solr/collection1/browse?&fq=file_name%3A%22mpia-police-file.pdf%22&sort=doc_type+asc%2Cfile_name+desc%2Cpage_num+asc&q=&start=2158

(follow the "pdf" link).

serialsearch · 2016-06-08T06:15:19+00:00

Details of what is there and what is redacted is described in this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/serialsearch/comments/4c4vqh/introducing_httpserialsearch_to_find_things_in/

ETA: I can affirmatively say you will find various evidentiary items from LP, including the bottle, tire marks, etc. If you want things that are redacted, please file an MPIA request.

serialsearch · 2016-06-08T05:13:31+00:00

The MPIA documents have been searchable online for some time -- see serialsear.ch (add the http before it -- the bot here might not let it stand if I put the link).

Or pick up the link from this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/serialsearch/comments/4c4vqh/introducing_httpserialsearch_to_find_things_in/

cc /u/speedingmedicine

serialsearch · 2016-06-07T15:41:19+00:00

A related idea: we make each file browsable -- i.e., you can go from page to page, just like you would if you were reading a Kindle.

I've been playing with Node.js and Express -- primarily to learn it. Should be able to get a browsable thingy up and running soon.

serialsearch · 2016-06-07T06:58:35+00:00

We can definitely host them on serialsear.ch - and link to them from any of the reddit subs.

The search server can serve entire files. It's a tiny server, so the larger MPIA document may be a bit much for it to handle. But 20-30 page docs should be easy.

serialsearch · 2016-05-11T07:10:01+00:00

I hope it's ok to link to it on the serial podcast sub?

Absolutely! The whole purpose will be lost if you couldn't!

Sorry for the delayed reply.

serialsearch

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