How Dumb Is Your Favorite Website?
Google has just introduced a new option that allows you to filter search results by "reading level." Who knows what black magick is behind this, but we thought it would be fun to compare some popular websites.
The new option, available via Google's Advanced Search, allows you to see the percentage of "basic," "intermediate" and "advanced" reading level results in your query. Limiting the search to individual domains (using the "site:domain.com" modifier) allows you to see the reading level make-up of your favorite site. So, let's take a look!
Unsurprisingly, the snobby New York Review of Books leads the pack:
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LBO lbo-talk Nation NLR PWW
basic 2 17 7 2 3 intermediate 77 63 86 21 95 advanced 19 18 6 76 1