Google Launches Dictionary, Drops Answers.com

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 5, 2009 @11:33AM from the urbandictionary-has-nuthin-to-fear dept.

ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "Google has expanded its remit once again with the quiet launch of Google Dictionary. Google word search definitions now redirect to Google Dictionary instead of to Google's long term thesaurus goto site, Answers.com, which is expected to take a serious hit in traffic as a result. Dictionary pages are noticeably more plain and faster loading than their Answers.com equivalents, and unusually feature web citations for the definitions of each word. This means that, unlike most dictionaries, Google considers ginormous a word."

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I don't care about "most dictionaries"... by lammy · 2009-12-05 11:48 · Score: 5, Funny

If it's in the Oxford, then it's a bloody word! http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/ginormous?view=uk ... And that's the Compact dictionary - so it's definitely in the ginormous one!
Re:But... by binarylarry · 2009-12-05 11:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Agreed, it's perfectly cromulent.

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Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-12-05 12:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Heck, a ginormous vocabulary embiggens even the smallest man.