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tweetykiss's picture

There are many interesting facts to know about web searches and one of them is how results show up with certain keywords....I will take one example. By typing in "flowers", the number one result is 1800flowers.com and then the three top results are FTD, ProFlowers, and Dot Flowers.

Google has recently begun beta testing their accessible web search for the visually challenged. this type of search, is available on Google’s experimental software site at http://labs.google.com/ . So on Google Accessible Search, the number one site for "flowers" is tesco.com/flowers. It is interesting to note that this is a UK site that is very well coded and 1800flowers.com is not even on the first page of results.

Now when I type in "online marketing" and the number one result is UsWeb.com and it is the same result on on Google Accessible Search. The reason for this is the company created the USWeb site in Web Standards, and it is in compliance with Web Accessibility guidelines. Now when I do a search for another term “Internet marketing