whoisgregg - 7:01 pm on Jul 16, 2004 (gmt 0)

define:javascript doesn't return anything from WordNet

I stand corrected. Technical terms and other "unofficial" words draw their definitions from a variety of web sources not from wordnet.

I was trying to answer rjohara's question about the on page markup. Although my wordnet example sucked, page markup, at least regarding the <dl><dt><dd> tags, is still irrelevant (no reason for me to post a bunch of links here to define: result sources). G definitions use some other criteria to determine if a page contains a definition for a term.

I agree that G probably didn't spider WordNet, but many web definition sources are spidered as html so the markup becomes relevant for a webmaster wishing to provide definitions that are G friendly. What about <acronym> and <abbr> tags? Does those come into play? I can't tell for sure...