R.I.P. jusearch!

Tegonal is shutting down the legal search engine jusearch!. When we published the jusearch! prototype in 2014, we had two goals: to deepen our knowledge of technologies such as Scala and MongoDB through a real product, and to make it easier to search for legal sources. Since then, the algorithms and interfaces we built have aged. Because the Federal Supreme Court and the Swiss Federal Chancellery weren't willing to provide consistent interfaces for referencing their content, we had to keep adapting how we parsed it. For more on this, read Alwin Egger's blog post "Not so Open Government Data".

Given the effort an update would take and the low interest in the search engine, we're shutting down jusearch! with immediate effect and focusing on the many other exciting projects in our pipeline.

This screencast gives you an idea of what jusearch! was.