{"id":71,"date":"2004-08-11T18:28:54","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T16:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/ozh\/archives\/2004\/08\/11\/google-definitions-experiment\/"},"modified":"2005-04-21T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2005-04-21T21:52:14","slug":"google-definitions-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/google-definitions-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Google definitions experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve discovered today a Google feature I hadn&#39;t been aware of : searching terms and definitions. To do so, search for &quot;<em>define:[your word]<\/em>&quot;. This seems to work for a very wide variety of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=define%3AROFL\">acronyms<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=define%3AParis\">places<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=define%3Aphilosophy\">concepts<\/a> or even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=define%3ABill+Gates\">celebrities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is an english only feature, but it gathers definitions from several web sites, as well from well established <a href=\"http:\/\/wordnet.princeton.edu\/cgi-bin\/webwn\">online dictionnaries<\/a> as from <a href=\"http:\/\/ourworld.compuserve.com\/homepages\/MJVanVoorhis\/T510.htm\">unknown pages<\/a> deeply hidden in some ISP&#39;s customers home pages.<\/p>\n<p>I wondered what makes a page being crawled by Google as a dictionnary reference ? Of course, I&#39;ve looked for a definition of Ozh :) And obviously, there is no. So I&#39;ve made this little <a href=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/projects\/definitions.php\">experiment<\/a> (Googlebot now please follow this link:) and we&#39;ll see in a few days if this is a success or not. I mean, the world deserves a definition of &quot;Ozh&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiment with Google&#39;s &quot;define:&quot; function<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[42,11],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-google","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}