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Posted: Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 at 7:29 pm. Filed in New Features.

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AnswerLinks

by Toni

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.

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  1. Alex
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:08 pm

    Wow! Thanks!

  2. Rollin
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:11 pm

    Sounds good. Will try. (Someone visit me, damnit.)

  3. Graser10
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:13 pm

    Hey!
    Nice job, wordpress!

    ~*~Graser10~*~
    The goofy goober! :mrgreen:

  4. Ankur
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:13 pm

    Sexy!

  5. circulating
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:22 pm

    I love answers.com…!! thanks for this handy nifty tool…

  6. GreenPanda
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:26 pm

    This is definitely helpful!

  7. Andrew Alliance
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:27 pm

    Cool

  8. Michell Bak
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:29 pm

    Sounds like a nice feature – thanks WordPress.com team!

  9. Graser10
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:30 pm

    Hey!
    This thing’s awesome! Thanks so much wordpress!

    ~*~Graser10~*~
    The goofy goober! :mrgreen:

  10. dma1
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    Thanks!

  11. Chris Hoskin
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:38 pm

    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…..

  12. timethief
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    Thanks Toni :)

  13. Austin
    October 10th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

    Hey, there you go. I like that. It makes it easier. I link to definitions all the time.
    Thanks,
    Austin @ Sundrip

  14. luna
    October 10th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    I’ve just used it…and it’s a nice feature. :) Thanks !

  15. Brett
    October 10th, 2007 at 9:25 pm

    Nice!

  16. neath
    October 10th, 2007 at 9:32 pm

    Excellent!

  17. trollboy
    October 10th, 2007 at 9:39 pm

    nice one! Thanks!

  18. Aguair
    October 10th, 2007 at 9:43 pm

    Holla!
    Thanks, It will prbably help some, but I still want more themes!
    ~Ag!~

  19. Wolz14
    October 10th, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    cool thanks

  20. Len Gilbert
    October 10th, 2007 at 9:51 pm

    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….

  21. Anurag Bansal
    October 10th, 2007 at 9:51 pm

    Excellent….
    WP rocks…

  22. iaoj
    October 10th, 2007 at 9:53 pm

    Thank you Alex and WordPress.com. This feature sounds awesome.
    Great- Thank you:-)

  23. Lyndon
    October 10th, 2007 at 9:55 pm

    Cool beans! Thanks!!!

  24. abarclay12
    October 10th, 2007 at 9:55 pm

    I love Alex King. He’s a genius. I’d like to link all my questions in the future straight to his brain.

  25. hardrockhideout
    October 10th, 2007 at 10:06 pm

    Wow…that is a pretty cool feature. I may have to try that one out!

  26. Dan Taylor
    October 10th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    Alright, I’ll have to check it out. I’ve been inserting links to wikipedia myself. Thanks.

  27. Rod E. Smith, MSMFT
    October 10th, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    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

  28. Driver
    October 10th, 2007 at 10:13 pm

    that’s really brilliant!
    but why not go wiki?
    anyway, LUV U GUYS

  29. Pezster12
    October 10th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

    thanx

  30. grhomeboy
    October 10th, 2007 at 10:35 pm

    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.

  31. slimball2007
    October 10th, 2007 at 10:36 pm

    I dont know how to use it but cool!

  32. FXSmom
    October 10th, 2007 at 10:43 pm

    That is really cool!! Thanks :)

  33. livingjourney
    October 10th, 2007 at 10:46 pm

    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

  34. Scavella
    October 10th, 2007 at 11:09 pm

    Oh, THIS is cool!

  35. Sakib
    October 10th, 2007 at 11:14 pm

    cool

  36. Maverick
    October 10th, 2007 at 11:15 pm

    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.

  37. El Santo
    October 10th, 2007 at 11:45 pm

    I haven’t found an application to use it yet … but it does sound like a nice feature. I like it.

  38. കേരളഫാര്‍മര്‍
    October 10th, 2007 at 11:55 pm

    Thanks a lot

  39. miquie's crew
    October 11th, 2007 at 12:02 am

    COOL!!! thank you.

  40. moscarey
    October 11th, 2007 at 12:15 am

    Thanks Toni, thanks alex. good work.

  41. leylander
    October 11th, 2007 at 12:21 am

    Brilliant!

  42. ellaella
    October 11th, 2007 at 12:29 am

    Seriously cool and helpful. Thank you!

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  44. alicia5
    October 11th, 2007 at 12:56 am

    You are always doing good tools for us. Thanks!!!!!

  45. rayshan
    October 11th, 2007 at 12:58 am

    It’s a great feature and a great product placement strategy for Answers.com.

    Ray

  46. Art
    October 11th, 2007 at 1:07 am

    That. Is. Awesome! Thanks!

  47. Julio Fragoso
    October 11th, 2007 at 1:18 am

    cmon guys

    this is insanely perfect !!

    thankz

  48. ∂bsolutjoiz™
    October 11th, 2007 at 1:19 am

    Sounds really great! Now i need not go googling for definitions. Thanks!

  49. enkerli
    October 11th, 2007 at 1:48 am

    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.

  50. Jef Menguin
    October 11th, 2007 at 1:53 am

    Sounds good to me. Thanks!

  51. IR
    October 11th, 2007 at 2:05 am

    This is great! I’m a huge fan of Answers.com. Look forward to using it lots.

  52. salahudin
    October 11th, 2007 at 2:05 am

    WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW you guys pwn.

    how about a WIKI link/thingy like that??

  53. Trish_Fan
    October 11th, 2007 at 2:05 am

    awesome feature =D

  54. podniebem
    October 11th, 2007 at 2:06 am

    sounds great! pity it’s only for English

  55. Nita
    October 11th, 2007 at 2:26 am

    Wow, this is great! I usually turn to the wiki for definitions and this saves me a lot of trouble!
    Thanks.

  56. cronies
    October 11th, 2007 at 2:52 am

    Go ALEX KING¡

  57. extremusmilitis
    October 11th, 2007 at 3:02 am

    Cool, nice one ;)
    Thanks a lot

  58. Woeful
    October 11th, 2007 at 3:20 am

    As a librarian, I really appreciate this feature!

  59. உதய தாரகை
    October 11th, 2007 at 3:27 am

    Wow…

    Nice feature…

    Thanks guys..

  60. clems86
    October 11th, 2007 at 4:02 am

    cool Thanks!

  61. Lijin
    October 11th, 2007 at 5:04 am

    Great Feature Guyss…. :)

  62. letters
    October 11th, 2007 at 5:05 am

    Vielen Dank, merci and thanks all in one.

  63. museditions
    October 11th, 2007 at 5:12 am

    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!

  64. blayde
    October 11th, 2007 at 5:30 am

    Woohoo, nice feature, a wiki wouldve been great as well, but this is awesome nonetheless

  65. Kunal
    October 11th, 2007 at 5:31 am

    this is a useful feature :)

  66. s s
    October 11th, 2007 at 5:36 am

    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!

  67. Santosh
    October 11th, 2007 at 5:39 am

    thanks guys

  68. raymonde
    October 11th, 2007 at 6:34 am

    Good work guys! :-D

  69. mittins
    October 11th, 2007 at 7:21 am

    now i can learn about what i write about :O
    first stop egregious.

  70. dreamzmedia
    October 11th, 2007 at 7:29 am

    hmmmm….
    sounds ok but …. not too keen….will see how it goes for others first….

  71. Bala
    October 11th, 2007 at 8:06 am

    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

  72. kalesco
    October 11th, 2007 at 8:07 am

    I would have loved this feature with wikipedia :)

  73. Ayu
    October 11th, 2007 at 8:09 am

    Sounds good! Now my bf won’t have to consult his personal dictionary again. (read=me!)

  74. ideasmith
    October 11th, 2007 at 8:17 am

    Amazing…you think of things that we didn’t even realise we needed!

  75. Chittaranjan
    October 11th, 2007 at 8:19 am

    Link? Or Pop-up showing the definition??

    Will try it out soon….Thanks

  76. Monique
    October 11th, 2007 at 8:59 am

    Love it! After moving from my own domain, I think this is the one wordpress.org feature I missed the most. Yay! :)

  77. michaeljung
    October 11th, 2007 at 9:35 am

    Thanks

  78. Anne
    October 11th, 2007 at 10:38 am

    Can’t wait to implement this one. Thanks for yet another great feature.

  79. susaneb
    October 11th, 2007 at 10:48 am

    …fun…I will try it and thanks for this!!

    Susan in Italy

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  81. abu ameerah
    October 11th, 2007 at 11:20 am

    nothing short of brilliant! thanks! : )

  82. outeasy
    October 11th, 2007 at 11:27 am

    Now that is cool, thanks, heY!

  83. Lady Luck
    October 11th, 2007 at 11:36 am

    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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  85. cotojo
    October 11th, 2007 at 12:11 pm

    Thanks team, sounds like another great idea and very beneficial :)

  86. trugiaz
    October 11th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    Cool stuff

  87. Brent
    October 11th, 2007 at 12:41 pm

    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…

  88. icedmocha
    October 11th, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    Great idea. Thanks!

  89. Carlos
    October 11th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    omg, that’s amazing :)

  90. Manuel Reis
    October 11th, 2007 at 1:19 pm

    Very very very very very Cool!, but you should have also a IMDb button…

  91. centrocampista
    October 11th, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    Handy! thanx WordPress :)

  92. lukadium
    October 11th, 2007 at 2:44 pm

    Nice feature,thanks Tony

  93. invictus
    October 11th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

    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.

  94. MorningGlory
    October 11th, 2007 at 2:55 pm

    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?

  95. Samuel
    October 11th, 2007 at 2:58 pm

    Hmmm, nice.
    I would like something like this pointing to wikipedia :) . I’m still doing that manually…

  96. natanzuelo
    October 11th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

    Nice, thanx :D

  97. ramoody5
    October 11th, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    thanks yo\

  98. Red Kid
    October 11th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    nice!! =D me like it!! :P

  99. msayed2004
    October 11th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    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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