AnswerLinks
We’ve added a feature today that makes it easy for you to link words in your posts to definition pages on Answers.com. For example let’s say you mentioned someone like Artie Shaw or something like Turmeric in a post. If you click the AnswerLink “A” in your editor:
AnswerLinks will find words in your post that might benefit from a definition and ask you if you’d like to turn them into links like Artie Shaw and Turmeric. Easy as that!Answers.com gets their definition data from places like Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, and the American Heritage Dictionary. They are the default definition link that shows up whenever you do a Google search. There’s a little more information about this feature on Answers.com’s site.PS: This feature was developed by Alex King and is also available as a plugin for WordPress.org users.
- October 10, 2007
- New Features
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Wow! Thanks!
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Sounds good. Will try. (Someone visit me, damnit.)
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Hey!
Nice job, wordpress!
~*~Graser10~*~
The goofy goober!
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Sexy!
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I love answers.com…!! thanks for this handy nifty tool…
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This is definitely helpful!
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Cool
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Sounds like a nice feature – thanks WordPress.com team!
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Hey!
This thing’s awesome! Thanks so much wordpress!
~*~Graser10~*~
The goofy goober!
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Thanks!
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Sounds good, and I’ll use it.
Would be really cool if the ALT text defaulted to “Answers.com: Definition” and the link defaulted to opening in a seperate window…..
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Thanks Toni 🙂
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Hey, there you go. I like that. It makes it easier. I link to definitions all the time.
Thanks,
Austin @ Sundrip
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I’ve just used it…and it’s a nice feature. 🙂 Thanks !
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Nice!
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Excellent!
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nice one! Thanks!
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Holla!
Thanks, It will prbably help some, but I still want more themes!
~Ag!~
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cool thanks
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Nice concept. I tried it in a test post about Wikipedia moving to San Francisco. Besides SF, Washington DC, New York, and St Petersburg, FL were all mentioned as was “Wikipedia”, founder Jimmy Wales, and London, but Answers only suggested a link to “Asia” that was buried in the text. The feature could still use some work….
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Excellent….
WP rocks…
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Thank you Alex and WordPress.com. This feature sounds awesome.
Great- Thank you:-)
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Cool beans! Thanks!!!
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I love Alex King. He’s a genius. I’d like to link all my questions in the future straight to his brain.
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Wow…that is a pretty cool feature. I may have to try that one out!
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Alright, I’ll have to check it out. I’ve been inserting links to wikipedia myself. Thanks.
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you guys are the best — the tags have significantly increased my readership — and so now a hard copy newspaper column goes out on the web and readers pick up back issues whenever they desire, rather than my trying to find back issues and email the readers. Now they will get definitions too.
Thanks,
Rod Smith
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that’s really brilliant!
but why not go wiki?
anyway, LUV U GUYS
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thanx
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Nice feature, thanks for providing this additional service. Much appreciated.
Trust will add in boosting a blog’s readership [have not yet tried it, but intend to do so shortly – trust the answer will be opened in a new window] as opposed to abstract reader’s attention.
Thanks again for thinking for us – ahead of us.
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I dont know how to use it but cool!
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That is really cool!! Thanks 🙂
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For me this is the best feature! I usually find all my own definitions and this has made it heaps easier.
Thanks heaps WordPress!
V
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Oh, THIS is cool!
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cool
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great feature, However by default all of them open in the same window. I’d love to have an option where I can say it to open in a new window or the same window.
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I haven’t found an application to use it yet … but it does sound like a nice feature. I like it.
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Thanks a lot
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COOL!!! thank you.
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Thanks Toni, thanks alex. good work.
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Brilliant!
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Seriously cool and helpful. Thank you!
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You are always doing good tools for us. Thanks!!!!!
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It’s a great feature and a great product placement strategy for Answers.com.
Ray
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That. Is. Awesome! Thanks!
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cmon guys
this is insanely perfect !!
thankz
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Sounds really great! Now i need not go googling for definitions. Thanks!
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Mentioned it in a blog entry before using it (or seeing this blog entry). It does look interesting though I wish it could be customisable for use with other sites (including our own blogs, making it a bit wiki-like). As it is, it looks more like a way to send traffic to Answers.com than a way to easily input links.
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Sounds good to me. Thanks!
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This is great! I’m a huge fan of Answers.com. Look forward to using it lots.
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WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW you guys pwn.
how about a WIKI link/thingy like that??
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awesome feature =D
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sounds great! pity it’s only for English
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Wow, this is great! I usually turn to the wiki for definitions and this saves me a lot of trouble!
Thanks.
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Go ALEX KING¡
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Cool, nice one 😉
Thanks a lot
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As a librarian, I really appreciate this feature!
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Wow…
Nice feature…
Thanks guys..
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cool Thanks!
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Great Feature Guyss…. 🙂
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Vielen Dank, merci and thanks all in one.
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Wow, I’m constantly linking to dictionaries, wiki, and ‘about’ mostly for tech and science terms for my philosophical audience. Super, Thanks Toni and Alex!
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Woohoo, nice feature, a wiki wouldve been great as well, but this is awesome nonetheless
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this is a useful feature 🙂
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i don’t know what to say, that’s a total knock-out. i was so surprised when i saw this icon in the tabs!
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thanks guys
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Good work guys! 😀
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now i can learn about what i write about :O
first stop egregious.
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hmmmm….
sounds ok but …. not too keen….will see how it goes for others first….
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Interesting, But it suggests only for very few things, rather if we can select the word and check for suggestion, it would had been great
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I would have loved this feature with wikipedia 🙂
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Sounds good! Now my bf won’t have to consult his personal dictionary again. (read=me!)
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Amazing…you think of things that we didn’t even realise we needed!
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Link? Or Pop-up showing the definition??
Will try it out soon….Thanks
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Love it! After moving from my own domain, I think this is the one wordpress.org feature I missed the most. Yay! 🙂
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Thanks
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Can’t wait to implement this one. Thanks for yet another great feature.
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…fun…I will try it and thanks for this!!
Susan in Italy
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nothing short of brilliant! thanks! : )
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Now that is cool, thanks, heY!
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Sounds terrific! I’ll be linking everything from now on! I wonder how many links one could get in a single post?
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Yeah ‘nice’. Just killed my post and deleted all paragraphs and links to two YouTube vids.
I’m laughing, but bitterly.
I think I’ll just do my own linking, though.
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Thanks team, sounds like another great idea and very beneficial 🙂
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Cool stuff
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Interesting. That will save me about 20 seconds or so of work, the next time I link to answers.com…because as we all know, it is a huge pain to go there first to check if there is an entry for something even on there, and then copy and paste the URL of the search string into the WYSIWYG editor.
Any WLW plugins for this yet?
Sorry, my bad – it is no longer sarcastic Wednesday. Today is Thursday…
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Great idea. Thanks!
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omg, that’s amazing 🙂
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Very very very very very Cool!, but you should have also a IMDb button…
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Handy! thanx WordPress 🙂
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Nice feature,thanks Tony
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Great feature, thanks!
Clue: If you get a “Sorry, we do not have any AnswerLinks to suggest at this time” at first, don’t give up and try again and again. It eventually finds the links.
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Great idea,something I’m sure to use.When I ran it on my last two posts,it removed all the spaces after my punctuation marks.As a result all my paragraphs look like this one.With no spaces.Kind of hard to follow,don’t you think?It happened both times I tried it,so I have to think it has something to do with the AnswerLinks.Has this happened to anyone else?
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Hmmm, nice.
I would like something like this pointing to wikipedia :). I’m still doing that manually…
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Nice, thanx 😀
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thanks yo\
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nice!! =D me like it!! 😛
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Nice , thanks
But what about a wikipedia button (the English one or a combo box with all supported languages) ?!
Anyway it is just a suggestion 🙂 .
Thanks again.
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