OSCN Uses dtSearch for Instant Web-Based Searching of Enormous Legal Database, Spanning Everything From U.S. Supreme Court to State Statutes

Oklahoma State Courts Network (OSCN) at www.oscn.net has a legal research database containing over 2 million Oklahoma legal documents, including case Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court, court dockets, Oklahoma Statutes, Attorney General's opinions, and historical documents. Hundreds of thousands of court dockets are available nowhere else except the courthouses ... and on OSCN

When OSCN recently decided to upgrade their Web-based search engine, they chose to install the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine for full-text searching of their immense database. According to Kevin King, MIS Director at the Supreme Court of Oklahoma Administrative Office of the Courts, "dtSearch is the best performance product by a long way. Searching is pretty much instantaneous."

Mr. King and his team used ActiveX to integrate the dtSearch Engine with their SQL Server 2000 legal database, replacing the integrated text engine. "dtSearch was the easiest to integrate.... Working with dtSearch was wonderful!"

As a result of Mr. King and his team's efforts: "The New OSCN, with greatly improved search capabilities, easier access to information, and larger and more complete databases is now on line," announced the OSCN Web site. "OSCN's new search engine is one of the most powerful in existence .... Learn to use it... it is one of the most important tools available to help you in your legal practice."

"Mr. King and his staff deserve kudos. They have built a superb resource for their users that provides fast, convenient access to an enormous amount of information," said David Thede, President, dtSearch Corp. "We are very proud to be a part of the solution they have created."

OSCN has been provided by the Oklahoma Supreme Court free of charge since 1998 as a service to the public, bench, and bar of Oklahoma. Oklahoma was the first state to move to the internet and provide a true legal research source, and OSCN is still the most complete service of its kind in the nation.

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