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Google Goes to Answers.com
tod_miller writes "Google has changed its definitions link from dictionary.com to answers.com. A google search for juxtaposition shows the effect. What is interesting is that answers.com pulls information from wikipedia.org, which was provided bandwidth by google.com [and now Google is providing a service that will be used worldwide to pull information off Wikipedia]. Aside from having both a dictionary.com and a wikipedia.org search box in FireFox (as well as Google) the definition link on Google is still useful and I regularly check it for obscure uses or exact definitions of words. Now it uses answers.com we do not get all the different forms of the word, but we do get any medical or wikipedic information. Interestingly, answers.com does not use Google AdSense, but commission junction that looks like it. There is no announcement yet from Google of their change." This change took place several weeks ago, as players of e-scrabble and other compulsive word-checkers might have noticed. Update: 03/13 23:20 GMT by T : (Also mentioned in passing last month.) Update: 03/14 02:13 GMT by T : Brion Vibber writes: "Google does *not* provide any bandwidth to Wikipedia at this time, except in the sense that they 'use up' our bandwidth when people using
their search engine come to our site. ;)"
Compulsive word-checkers? Hey, that's nice. I must check it out. Now!
I mean editors. Poor editing on my part :S.
[Off-topic] Are you reading Stephen Donaldson at the moment? I can't think of anywhere else I've ever met the word...
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
webster.com seems to have everything I search for. I go there instead of google if I need to check the spelling of a word real quick; it has decent word suggestion if I don't guess the spelling correctly.
FoundNews.com - get paid to blog.,
No kidding. Want a laugh? If you've got some hours to spare, read this page, which even includes a poll to determine how to conclude the other poll. Any satire would be too easy.
68 places more popular. That's how much more mainstream you can get.
Yours Sincerely, Michael.
Since I suspect the mods don't actually read comments ;) I've e-mailed Timothy to this effect.
Chu vi parolas Vikipedion?
Too bad we don't have a user-review process to correct that sort of thing. I wonder where we could find a model for one?
This is why we have a page describing how polls are evil.
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It may be a dupe, but neither the original article, nor the current one has a comment about the Answers.com definition of slashdot. I've had that in my sig for over a month (and I missed the previous article) but I was amused at the 'slashdot == chip and dip' response I got...
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