Comments on: Wikipedia.com vs Dictionary.com http://andrewteman.org/blog/2009/12/09/wikipedia-com-vs-dictionary-com/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: J.D. http://andrewteman.org/blog/2009/12/09/wikipedia-com-vs-dictionary-com/comment-page-1/#comment-59625 J.D. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:16:49 +0000 http://andrewteman.org/blog/?p=1646#comment-59625 That's really weird. If anything I would expect it to increase at that time, what with with school starting and everything. I have two guesses: Browser functionality. I don't really use Firefox anymore, but 3.5 was released over the summer. Does it have a built-in, or improved spellcheck feature or new add on for a competing online dictionary? Opera 10 was released in early September, and although you can use the address field as a customizable search using abbreviations ( g+term for Google, w=term for wiki, etc) and it has dictionary.com is a default, I recently noticed that if you highlight a word+right click to find a definition, it uses Merriam Webster. I don't know how new that is, though. or New smart phone platform/browser that uses the competition as a default. That’s really weird. If anything I would expect it to increase at that time, what with with school starting and everything.

I have two guesses:

Browser functionality. I don’t really use Firefox anymore, but 3.5 was released over the summer. Does it have a built-in, or improved spellcheck feature or new add on for a competing online dictionary?

Opera 10 was released in early September, and although you can use the address field as a customizable search using abbreviations ( g+term for Google, w=term for wiki, etc) and it has dictionary.com is a default, I recently noticed that if you highlight a word+right click to find a definition, it uses Merriam Webster. I don’t know how new that is, though.

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New smart phone platform/browser that uses the competition as a default.

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