#1378: Tersearch

My attention span started off short and is getting rapidly shorter. If a document is written in convoluted sentences (or in the case of a patent application, one half-page ‘sentence’), then I usually avoid reading it.

Today’s invention is a tool to order search results by average sentence length on a webpage.

This would help people to mostly avoid florid language in favour of writers who get to the point.

2 Comments »

  1. Comment by Steve

    Very good idea. That would automatically prevent my web search from retrieving anything from politicians.

  2. Comment by Patrick

    I’d certainly pay for that service. As a stopgap, I just avoid the BBC News site completely.

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