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We recently posted news of Carl Malamud’s effort to make access to the federal court records contained in the PACER system available at no cost to the general public. Now comes news that the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University has created a PACER Firefox add-on called RECAP.

Google recently announced that its Caffeine search upgrade will be activated following several months of user testing.

Microsoft Bing will now offer search features specifically derived from recent Twitter and Facebook status updates. With Twitter and Facebook becoming commonly used by politicians and other public figures to communicate with the public, these new search features provide better tools for researching their past statements.