- The maximum words per query has increased from 10 to 32.
- If you click a word in your query, it now takes you to answers.com instead of dictionary.com. Answers.com shows not only dictionary definitions but also thesaurus entries, encyclopedia and Wikipedia articles, and several other sources of information.
This entry was posted
on Wednesday, January 26th, 2005 at 3:16 am and is filed under Google.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Both comments and pings are currently closed.
January 26th, 2005 at 5:15 am
I’m still getting links to dictionary.com – maybe I’m seeing a different Google cluster from here.
January 26th, 2005 at 9:07 am
Yea I’m not seeing this (yet, I guess). Hmm… maybe you accidently saw something they are going to publish in a few days.
January 27th, 2005 at 8:31 am
Doesn’t google roll out new changes to random cookies first before going to everyone?
January 27th, 2005 at 10:28 am
Google rolled out their new look to random cookies (http://www.squarefree.com/archives/000369.html), but I can’t think of any other changes they rolled out that way. I don’t think they’re rolling out links to answers.com using cookies. I see links to answers.com rather than dictionary.com in multiple browsers and even after deleting my google.com cookie in one browser.
January 28th, 2005 at 11:58 am
Usually it is by IP address.
January 29th, 2005 at 11:46 pm
Well, at first I didn’t see the new changes you talk about, but now I do.
February 1st, 2005 at 11:17 pm
I noticed the direction to Answers.com this weekend…. Didn’t know about the update to 32 words; that’s fantastic! There have been quite a few cases when I’ve wanted to search for more than 10 words.
However, the real reason I am visiting your weblog is that over on livejournal, a bunch of us want a certain Firefox extension. Basically we want to be able to right-click on a link and select from the context menu an option called “View Link Source”, which will open the link with “http://“ replaced with “view-source:”. I have the impression that this would be easy to hack together for anyone who knows how to write Firefox extensions, but that’s not any of us. Could you throw some light on the situation by either (a) throwing together a quick extension for us, or (b) explaining why it’s harder than it sounds?
February 2nd, 2005 at 3:12 pm
Adam: Personally I have no idea if it would be easy or hard or impossible, but you could try asking at the MozillaZine Extensions Forum:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=19
February 5th, 2005 at 1:50 am
Actually, nevermind… I got off my lazy bum and wrote the extension myself. In case anyone wants it, it can be found here:
http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~abliss/viewlinksource.xpi
January 26th, 2005 at 6:35 am
Googley
Jesse Ruderman notes changes to Google. As best I can tell words in searches still link to dictionary.com rather than answers.com but I have noticed that going directly to google.com seems to be redirecting me to the local version at…