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Segala Wants To Be The VeriSign Of Web Trust

Written by David Lenehan and edited by Richard MacManus

Segala is a specialist in web accessibility, mobile testing, mobile web testing and certification. Based in Dublin and privately owned, Segala provides a range of services to help you better understand what problems your website and mobile applications might have in terms of accessibility.

[via Read/WriteWeb]

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this article is its coverage of Content Labels, a new idea to me. Apparently these are being proposed as a replacement to PICS, an existing mechanism for labelling the content of a site which is used by likemind.co.uk, amongst a conscientious few.

Segala’s aim it would seem is to encourage search engines to take account of Content Labels when producing search results. If they do, that’ll get SEO experts all a-flutter. Will trust be the new PageRank?