skipfactor
msg:133116 | 7:16 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
| type the word "define," then a space, and the word or phrase they want defined |
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Sweet, actually define colon works better than define space: define:widgets
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claus
msg:133117 | 7:24 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
first a calculator, now a dictionary - google everywhere ;) That will be a useful one - much shorter to type my G shortcut than that other url.
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Chris_R
msg:133118 | 7:04 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
| http://www.google.com/help/features.html#definitions EVEN works for acronyms such as DESI: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=define%3A+desi http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&q=define%3A+tall For Example: define: handsome Type In: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&q=define%3A+handsome
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ciml
msg:133119 | 7:10 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Nice find Chris, it looks like an enhancement to the Glossary beta [labs.google.com].
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Imaster
msg:133120 | 7:15 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Now for the main question, hmm, how to optimize for Google definitions? ;)
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Chris_R
msg:133121 | 7:18 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
It also breaks out some acronuyms as to their meaning: define: blog
define: scuba
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2_much
msg:133122 | 7:21 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Great find, any idea how they chose their sources for the definitions?
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Shak
msg:133123 | 7:22 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Nice Tool, had a bit of fun and specially liked: define: seo Shak
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Yidaki
msg:133124 | 7:23 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Is this a standard glossary feature that only singular returns acceptable results? [google.com...]
[google.com...] [google.com...]
[google.com...] (: funny unbiased #1:
Currently the most important spidering search engine by far, Google is dominating the search engine market.
... [google.com...] Know what's this?:
A popular search engine with the largest database on the web, indexing more than 140 million pages.
... [google.com...] - lol
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DaveN
msg:133125 | 7:44 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
sweet but i don't live in a cave [google.com...] DaveN
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brotherhood of LAN
msg:133126 | 7:47 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Nice one dave, first flaw ;) [google.com...] >sources for the definitions Doesnt look like a high rank for the term makes a difference, if any.
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DaveN
msg:133127 | 8:53 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
ogletree better then yours People who go in after the auditors and strip the bodies. ;) [google.com...] DaveN
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EliteWeb
msg:133128 | 8:55 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Funny I've been typing that into google for some time or define: or 'define word' and it never works ;) now i can define words. So will people have spam glossary pages? How do they define who's glos. page to use? [edited by: EliteWeb at 8:58 pm (utc) on Oct. 20, 2003]
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GoogleGuy
msg:133129 | 8:57 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
define:define defines define. Ow. My head hurts a little.. :)
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technoatheist
msg:133130 | 9:10 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Eh. Yahoo!'s been doing that trick for months now. I kinda like the formatting of Yahoo's better too. heh, so Google got define from Yahoo! the calculator from All the Web, ad placements via searches from Overture. Apparently they're also getting their R&D ideas from Microsoft. ;)
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DaveN
msg:133131 | 9:12 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
technoatheist nothing wrong with taking ideas from your competitors and making them better ;) DaveN
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ogletree
msg:133132 | 9:13 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Actually my name is Dave as well and I'm not a lawyer I just work for them.
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mquarles
msg:133133 | 9:28 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
I guess, despite what a certain Supreme Court justice said, there is at least one definition: [google.com...]
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mquarles
msg:133134 | 9:28 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
I assume anything is now ok: [google.com...]
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dougb
msg:133135 | 9:39 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
| heh, so Google got define from Yahoo! the calculator from All the Web, ad placements via searches from Overture. Apparently they're also getting their R&D ideas from Microsoft. ;) |
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And Google Glossary does much the same thing as my own site, which has been around since early 1996. I can't post the URL here because of forum rules against self-linking, but needless to say I like my site more. :) Still, Google Glossary will probably become more popular since it is integrated with Google, thereby erasing my reason for being. I have always felt it's unfair to rip content from sites that haven't given permission. For public domain resources like WordNet it's surely fine, but many dictionary/glossary providers rely on the advertising revenue they get from page views. I know this because I work directly with them.
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Eric in Tennessee
msg:133136 | 9:54 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
It appears that the define: oneword works, but define: two words does not. Well not so well anyway. I have done a few and the only one that works for two words is "Search Engine" - imagine that!
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aus_dave
msg:133137 | 10:36 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
| It appears that the define: oneword works, but define: two words does not. |
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Quite a few two word definitions seem to work ok for me, maybe it's getting better as time goes on.
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jcoronella
msg:133138 | 10:37 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
I think that although fun, this is google stealing content.
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HughMungus
msg:133139 | 10:52 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Only one problem with this: Doesn't handel mispellings the same way google search does (by suggesting propur spelings).
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rfgdxm1
msg:133140 | 2:19 am on Oct 21, 2003 (gmt 0) |
define: seo "Search Engine Optimizer"
A despicable and immoral class of people who would happily kill strangers for money, and destroy websites while charging the webmaster for doing so. [google.com...]
[salon.com...]
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shaadi
msg:133141 | 5:31 am on Oct 21, 2003 (gmt 0) |
LOL rfgdxm1; define:webmasterworld No definitions were found for webmasterworld. Optimization?
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saoi_jp
msg:133142 | 6:05 am on Oct 21, 2003 (gmt 0) |
So far it seems to me that all results contain certain words in their URLs (and in some cases, not the URLs but in the titles) glossary
gloss
glossary_* (where * is a letter or word)
define
dictionary
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vitaplease
msg:133143 | 6:43 am on Oct 21, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Good stuff! and now for the other languages.. I wonder if it is an updated version of the glossary or an enhancement? I have terms of my glossary in define: but not in [labs.google.com...]
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richmc
msg:133144 | 8:24 am on Oct 21, 2003 (gmt 0) |
define: artillery comes back with: "barbara" some way down the first page hmm. seriously though, any idea if this supports the HTML standard Definition List stuff?
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