Every time I design a Google tutorial and print as a poster, Google either changes the method or drops another tool. This time it was the search filter "
reading level". The way I understand it, Google noticed that this tool was not being used a lot, so that was the reason for dropping it. I believe I know why it wasn't being utilized; most people didn't even know that it was there. When I showed my special education and ESL classes "reading level", they were so happy to have found a way to filter only those sites/articles they could understand. Why not make these tools easier to find? The average adult (
my students as well) is not even aware of how the search tools work in images. Here's a screenshot of what search tools can do in an image search:
Google needs to remember that the average joes in the world are not as tech savvy as the geeks out there. I hope that they would rethink putting back the "reading level" filter under Google search tools. Please?
