Re: [WSG] Google Accessible Search Released

2006-07-20 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Bruce Morrison wrote: For those who don't read slashdot http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/07/20/1242210.shtml I sent the team the following email this morning... Original Message Subject: A nice first step... Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:30:31 +0100 From: Patrick Lauke <[EMAIL PRO

RE: [WSG] Google Accessible Search Released

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Bennett
Brilliant - this is exactly the type of thing (ammunition?) we need to help push standards and accessibility forward. I've already forwarded it to my manager ;) Paul ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webs

Re: [WSG] Google Accessible Search Released

2006-07-20 Thread Ben Buchanan
I sent the team the following email this morning... Subject: A nice first step... Well said. It's kind of spectacular that Google can produce an accessible search and STILL not make a best-practice search form or results page! :) But it does at least show that it is possible to rank accessible

Re: [WSG] Google Accessible Search Released

2006-07-20 Thread Kat
Bruce Morrison wrote: For those who don't read slashdot http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/07/20/1242210.shtml "Google today released Accessible Search, a Google Labs product aiming to rank higher pages which are optimized for blind users. Google asks you to adhere to the W3C'

Re: [WSG] Google Accessible Search Released

2006-07-20 Thread david . vinge
"It's kind of spectacular that Google can produce an accessible search and STILL not make a best-practice search form or results page" Anyone have experience working with the Google Search Appliance (GSA)? Our Web site is scheduled to launch in two days, ready of not. We struggled with integratin

Re: [WSG] Google Accessible Search Released

2006-07-20 Thread Tim
General google page ranking is based on incoming links . Link farms exploit the algorithm, so google downgrade sites with over 100 links. The search engine ranking of google is a travesty on the English language. Writing pages for SEOinvolves lots of repitition of key words. An English Thesaur

Re: [WSG] Google Accessible Search Released

2006-07-22 Thread Chris Dimmock
[quote]General google page ranking is based on incoming links . Link farms exploit the algorithm, so google downgrade sites with over 100 links.[/quote] You need to read http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40349&ctx=related Google looks at 100 aspects of a page - and li

Re: [WSG] Google Accessible Search Released

2006-07-22 Thread Tim
How do I rate in Google now that accessibility is a variable, I have about 60 pages ranked four, 30 ranked three. I watched other sites acquire links by scheming and dealing while I did everything the google way. I will check my search engine rankings. I just checked 100 pages (Validated XHTM

Re: [WSG] Google Accessible Search Released

2006-07-23 Thread Christian Montoya
On 7/21/06, Bruce Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For those who don't read slashdot http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/07/20/1242210.shtml "Google today released Accessible Search, a Google Labs product aiming to rank higher pages which are optimized for blind users. Googl