Sunday, May 29, 2011

Search Google sites by readability

Thanks to MaryMargaret [Hartland] for this great find.  Imagine searching Google sites with the added bonus of looking for specific reading levels.  This page instructs you how to use the Advance Google search tool to annotate 'hits" with basic, intermediate or advanced reading levels.  [You'll have to be the judge of those subjective terms.]  


http://www.twurdy.com/index.php
The site also mentions a few other Google specific search refinements, including TWURDY.  This tool [much slower than the typical Google search] brings back results using it's own algorithm...which of course is different than the Fry or the Flesch-Kincaid but still easy to understand.