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- abbott75, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44"Everyone's favorite Dictionary.com"
You mean there is more than one!?! - DJgreenLava, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33It looks almost like a parked add site w/ a css search bar at the top. Dugg none-the-less.
- atozand1to10, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25@snipehack: Adblock really works!
- sk33t, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22But there's no AJAX...
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18lol, I havnt seen an add for YEARS
get with the times, man - crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16"spelin" not found
did you mean "stark bollock naked"?
---from wikipedia link above, last suggested word on the page - namtellum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Anyone else think it looks like a giant ad?
- lechatron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11That's EXACTLY what I thought when I saw it.
- EV1L, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Web 2.0 design
Web 1.0 technology
Hate the pop ups - atmofunk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12i knew that was coming sooner or later lol
- ekstasis16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I agree with Tarmas, it looks like a link farm at first glance. Either way, every time a major site moves from tables to CSS, it makes me all giddy inside.
- Tarmas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"A great new design, the same crappy ads."
There's nothing great about the design at all. Not to say the site isn't a good resource, but hell, when I went to dictionary.com, I thought it was yet another fake website of some domain hunter. - SoundScape, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It looks even worse than before.
If you're going to do a redesign, shouldn't you at least make it worthwhile? - brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6cool.. but theres still too many ads :(
- iamdw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5agreed. especially since it forwards to the reference.com domain. Did this happen before? i can't remember.
Honestly, if i stumbled upon this with say, a good search for dictionary, i would most likely close the window/tab thinking the site is not legit. - lethalpotato, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5i thought the same thing when i first saw it
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I never understood why people use dictionary.com when dict.org m-w.com and askoxford.com are all easier to use and provide better results. spellcheck.net is handy too when you are posting stuff to forums that don't have a spell check (thanks digg!)
- scottylist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I prefer going to my Google toolbar and entering "define word".
- Araxen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I rarely if ever use dictionary.com. I just Google as my dictionary. It's alot better at it!
- dbxz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4ugh stop saying web 2.0 i dont see how it is at all... just cause it doesnt use tables doesnt make it web 2.0 in my books.
and its so damn ugly! the search button is soo poorly done! - poshsuicide, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6now if only they'd improve the quality of their definitions.
- vhtrading, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've been using Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus site for years. It's far better than dictionary.com; it has more features, doesn't require you to sign up for an account to listen to the audio pronunciations of words like dictionary.com does, has a shorter URL (m-w.com) for when you don't have it bookmarked, and has a handy search engine add-on for Firefox. No Digg.
- Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Perhaps you're looking for this?
http://forum.avantbrowser.com/viewforum.php?f=6 - trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3***** spammer
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I don't want to call it poorly designed, but ya, it does look far too much like a parked domain to me as well. I almost closed the window when it loaded thinking someone linked to the wrong place but noticed at the last moment that it actually is the site.
on the plus it is a whole lot faster and easier to navigate once you get passed the parked look - diggn_it, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I liked the old one better. Nowthe search bar is in the corner as opposed to center, and it looks like one of those site you end up on when you type in a wrong url. My design would be just a giant search bar with a thesaurus link under it. Then it would load up your definition and the search bar would shrink as necessary. Too bad I dont know how to build it :(
- ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Everyone's favorite Dictionary.com, gets a major facelift"
"Unfortunately Grammar.com still, not quite ready to teach submitter how, to use commas" - nerditup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3define:smiley ads
- szembek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yup, www.m-w.com baby!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3My preferred dictionary is answers.com / 1click answers. http://www.answers.com/
- nocountries, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2english2american.com
helps me on here sometimes! - matatan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2www.onelook.com works as a handy online dictionary metasearch. But it is so UGLY.
- Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No more 1999 style
- estvir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's redirected for quite awhile now, like > 6 months or so.
Looks fine to me, it's functional. - FlyboyP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use dictionary.com via the Define Word extension in Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/396/
- mooseboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I noticed it earlier by pure chance. It looks a lot nicer. Check out the bookmarklet in firefox by typing "dict word" and it takes you right to the definition. Very handy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's already been said 10,000 times, but the site definitely looks like I went to a url that doesn't exist.
Terrible font choice, terrible layout, and horrible ad placement (Although any ad placement is bad, I suppose).
I don't see how this version of the site could last for long and, truthfully, I don't really see what was wrong with the old version; it was simple. - easycheez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I was on it earlier today becuase I had a definition assignment for my American History course and I hit to search for an entry and blam, the header changed. I thought I was hallucinating. Props to dictionary.com, not a moment of downtime.
- MrZaiko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It looks like a bad search page now with that big ad banner right in the center
- Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It looks quite nice, and hats off to the nice idea of using a 250x100 search button GIF and scaling it waaaaaay down so it adjusts nicely with the text... Except Firefox does nearest-neighbor filtering when scaling images and it looks like utter *****. Are there any browsers that actually do nice interpolation when scaling graphics?
- upyourego, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now that the OED site is free to anyone with a British Library card I don't use anything else.
The Oxford English Dictionary is about as good as you can get in the world of dictionaries. - vdxc, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1neither the synopsis or the title says it is web 2.0 so where the hell did you come up with that?
- SuckMyDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Much better. And yes, about time.
- chromium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Everyone's favorite"?
Marked as inaccurate, I prefer http://www.thefreedictionary.com it's not full of ads and is very Web 2.0 - dubbin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not my favoUrite. Give me the OED any day, it's Zed is more comprehensive than dictionary.com's entire A to Zee.
- RickySan65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I prefer http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
- teddyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Please bury this story. The new interface is better than the old one but it is still very basic.
I guess it was only added to digg to make it to the front page and get some backlinks. I bet this is a pure SEO tactic... - nekitip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nothing special, but still MUCH better than the earlier crappy design. Too bad the ads are still there (and so "old-school").
- xorian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The new design looks very smooth and nice. Defininitely makes using dictionary.com a lot more "pleasing" :)
- heavyd14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I love answers.com just for the translations.
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