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Google Accessible Search
by David Chartier Jul 22nd 2006 at 7:15PM
Google has released a new Labs experiment called Google Accessible Search. Billed as a tool that prioritizes the typical Google search results by their usability, Accessible Search sorts results based on the simplicity of their page layouts and how gracefully the page degrades (such has removing ads and turning off images).
This tool isn't just for those who are tired of blinking Flash ads, or minimal, one-column design enthusiasts. T.V. Raman, who posted this on the Google Blog, can't see, and is a research scientist who is working on this project at Google. While Accessible Search is still in its early experimental stages, it definitely looks like Google is making good progress on an important tool for allowing even more people benefit from the World Wide Web.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
