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'Reading Level' Filter Added To Google Search
entotre writes "A new feature has been added to the advanced Google search: reading level. From the blog post: 'The feature lets you filter or annotate the search results by reading level. The reading levels include basic, intermediate and advanced. You can either have Google label or annotate the results with those labels, only show basic results, only show intermediate results or only show advanced results.' At the time of writing, Slashdot is 1 % advanced, 64 % intermediate and 34 % basic."
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=images&tbs=rl%3A1&q=site%3Asimple.wikipedia.org&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= Basic 28% Intermediate 55% Advanced 16% I think someone didn't live up to his claims!
My word, if you made it any simpler you'd be down to words of three letters or less.
(Tries it on own site.)
100% BASIC?!? Oh, hell no. You don't use words like "beset" in basic writing.
I do hereby put on my smartypants crown and declare this b0rken.
How am I supposed to choose the correct filter when I don't know what the word "intermediate" means?!
I assume this act of Google means reading level will soon be influencing page rank, results sorting, and more basic documents will begin to appear first
No problem. Stories will be at the top. The top ones will explain what intermediate is
Website operators will have to act. To keep their top spot.
Writers will need to make their sites basic.
Advanced grammar will go away.
Compound sentences will be banned.
Most pronouns will be banned.
Most contractions will be banned.
Making lists of things in one sentence will be banned.
Pages that do banned things will be hard to find.
This seems to be a useful junk filter. Do your search normally. If you get too much spam, try restricting to intermediate or advanced. I'm going to be using this all the time now.