Google changes definition link
January 31st, 2005
I was looking up a word in Google today, and noticed that they changed the link that shows up in the upper right the definitions of the words you searched for. The links used to go to Dictionary.com, but now they go to Answers.com. There are no press releases from Google nor GuruNet (owns Answers.com), but I did a news search and found TONS of people reporting about it from as early as Jan 20th. I usually get my tech news from Slashdot, so I did a search on their site and nothing references answers.com, which is very suprising. Maybe I’ll make a submission and this will be the first one to get accepted! Anyway, the change is good because Answers.com doesn’t just give you the definition, but also serves up the thesaurus, lexicons, legal definitions, sign language, other topics the word is mentioned in, etc. So, kudos to Google and GuruNet for making me even lazier!
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