In an age of advanced analytics and technology-assisted review in e-discovery, much has been made of the limits of keyword search.

We’ve always been skeptical of attempts to use the 1985 Blair and Maron study to argue that keyword searches are only 20 percent accurate. However, keyword searching does have its limits, and the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision last week in Xiong v. Knight Trans. shows those limits apply to e-discovery of social media as well.

Freeways and Facebook

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