news.cnet.com— Wordnik, a new start-up that was inspired by a TED talk about the shortcomings of online dictionaries, addresses the problem with aggregated data and social media.
Jun 8, 2009View in Crawl 4
It's definitely a bit more progressive than that, with all the 3rd party resources from which it pulls, and it's definitely far more thorough than the urban dictionary. Graphing a word's unusualness and quantity of use over time is a particularly nice touch.
gasyounJun 9, 2009
Nothing extra interesting.
the8thbitJun 9, 2009
Everybody search "dickbutt" so the search count gets really high and they add a definition for it.
the8thbitJun 9, 2009
Yeah. I think I'll stick with Wiktionary, which actually does plan to define all words.
honoredmuleJun 9, 2009
It's definitely a bit more progressive than that, with all the 3rd party resources from which it pulls, and it's definitely far more thorough than the urban dictionary. Graphing a word's unusualness and quantity of use over time is a particularly nice touch.
honoredmuleJun 9, 2009
Internet frequency may be slightly higher than average...Nevertheless, I do believe I see it several times a week at my local grocery store.
kyanJun 9, 2009
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