Accessible Search 2006 July 21
I just heard that Google has announced Accessible Search. This is a great thing for libraries to know about if they server any visual impared clients. I haven’t used it much (yet), but it looks pretty good.
From the Accessible Search FAQ
Accessible Search is an early Google Labs product designed to identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users. Regular Google search helps you find a set of documents that is most relevant to your tasks. Accessible Search goes one step further by helping you find the most accessible pages in that result set.
It is interesting to look at the different search results. For example, if you search for “Library” in regular Google, New York Public Library comes in as the 5′th hit., while I didn’t notice it in the top 250* in Accessible Search.
*Well, there was a style guide page off their website buried somewhere below 100, but I don’t think that counts.