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.
Oct 10th at 8:08 pm
Wow! Thanks!
Oct 10th at 8:11 pm
Sounds good. Will try. (Someone visit me, damnit.)
Oct 10th at 8:13 pm
Hey!
Nice job, wordpress!
~*~Graser10~*~
The goofy goober!
Oct 10th at 8:13 pm
Sexy!
Oct 10th at 8:22 pm
I love answers.com…!! thanks for this handy nifty tool…
Oct 10th at 8:26 pm
This is definitely helpful!
Oct 10th at 8:27 pm
Cool
Oct 10th at 8:29 pm
Sounds like a nice feature – thanks WordPress.com team!
Oct 10th at 8:30 pm
Hey!
This thing’s awesome! Thanks so much wordpress!
~*~Graser10~*~
The goofy goober!
Oct 10th at 8:32 pm
Thanks!
Oct 10th 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…..
Oct 10th at 8:43 pm
Thanks Toni
Oct 10th 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
Oct 10th at 9:19 pm
I’ve just used it…and it’s a nice feature.
Thanks !
Oct 10th at 9:25 pm
Nice!
Oct 10th at 9:32 pm
Excellent!
Oct 10th at 9:39 pm
nice one! Thanks!
Oct 10th at 9:43 pm
Holla!
Thanks, It will prbably help some, but I still want more themes!
~Ag!~
Oct 10th at 9:47 pm
cool thanks
Oct 10th 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….
Oct 10th at 9:51 pm
Excellent….
WP rocks…
Oct 10th at 9:53 pm
Thank you Alex and WordPress.com. This feature sounds awesome.
Great- Thank you:-)
Oct 10th at 9:55 pm
Cool beans! Thanks!!!
Oct 10th 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.
Oct 10th at 10:06 pm
Wow…that is a pretty cool feature. I may have to try that one out!
Oct 10th at 10:09 pm
Alright, I’ll have to check it out. I’ve been inserting links to wikipedia myself. Thanks.
Oct 10th 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
Oct 10th at 10:13 pm
that’s really brilliant!
but why not go wiki?
anyway, LUV U GUYS
Oct 10th at 10:14 pm
thanx
Oct 10th 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.
Oct 10th at 10:36 pm
I dont know how to use it but cool!
Oct 10th at 10:43 pm
That is really cool!! Thanks
Oct 10th 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
Oct 10th at 11:09 pm
Oh, THIS is cool!
Oct 10th at 11:14 pm
cool
Oct 10th 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.
Oct 10th 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.
Oct 10th at 11:55 pm
Thanks a lot
Oct 11th at 12:02 am
COOL!!! thank you.
Oct 11th at 12:15 am
Thanks Toni, thanks alex. good work.
Oct 11th at 12:21 am
Brilliant!
Oct 11th at 12:29 am
Seriously cool and helpful. Thank you!
Oct 11th at 12:56 am
You are always doing good tools for us. Thanks!!!!!
Oct 11th at 12:58 am
It’s a great feature and a great product placement strategy for Answers.com.
Ray
Oct 11th at 1:07 am
That. Is. Awesome! Thanks!
Oct 11th at 1:18 am
cmon guys
this is insanely perfect !!
thankz
Oct 11th at 1:19 am
Sounds really great! Now i need not go googling for definitions. Thanks!
Oct 11th 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.
Oct 11th at 1:53 am
Sounds good to me. Thanks!
Oct 11th at 2:05 am
This is great! I’m a huge fan of Answers.com. Look forward to using it lots.
Oct 11th at 2:05 am
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW you guys pwn.
how about a WIKI link/thingy like that??
Oct 11th at 2:05 am
awesome feature =D
Oct 11th at 2:06 am
sounds great! pity it’s only for English
Oct 11th 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.
Oct 11th at 2:52 am
Go ALEX KING¡
Oct 11th at 3:02 am
Cool, nice one
Thanks a lot
Oct 11th at 3:20 am
As a librarian, I really appreciate this feature!
Oct 11th at 3:27 am
Wow…
Nice feature…
Thanks guys..
Oct 11th at 4:02 am
cool Thanks!
Oct 11th at 5:04 am
Great Feature Guyss….
Oct 11th at 5:05 am
Vielen Dank, merci and thanks all in one.
Oct 11th 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!
Oct 11th at 5:30 am
Woohoo, nice feature, a wiki wouldve been great as well, but this is awesome nonetheless
Oct 11th at 5:31 am
this is a useful feature
Oct 11th 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!
Oct 11th at 5:39 am
thanks guys
Oct 11th at 6:34 am
Good work guys!
Oct 11th at 7:21 am
now i can learn about what i write about :O
first stop egregious.
Oct 11th at 7:29 am
hmmmm….
sounds ok but …. not too keen….will see how it goes for others first….
Oct 11th 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
Oct 11th at 8:07 am
I would have loved this feature with wikipedia
Oct 11th at 8:09 am
Sounds good! Now my bf won’t have to consult his personal dictionary again. (read=me!)
Oct 11th at 8:17 am
Amazing…you think of things that we didn’t even realise we needed!
Oct 11th at 8:19 am
Link? Or Pop-up showing the definition??
Will try it out soon….Thanks
Oct 11th 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!
Oct 11th at 9:35 am
Thanks
Oct 11th at 10:38 am
Can’t wait to implement this one. Thanks for yet another great feature.
Oct 11th at 10:48 am
…fun…I will try it and thanks for this!!
Susan in Italy
Oct 11th at 11:20 am
nothing short of brilliant! thanks! : )
Oct 11th at 11:27 am
Now that is cool, thanks, heY!
Oct 11th 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?
Oct 11th at 12:11 pm
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.
Oct 11th at 12:11 pm
Thanks team, sounds like another great idea and very beneficial
Oct 11th at 12:30 pm
Cool stuff
Oct 11th 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…
Oct 11th at 1:03 pm
Great idea. Thanks!
Oct 11th at 1:16 pm
omg, that’s amazing
Oct 11th at 1:19 pm
Very very very very very Cool!, but you should have also a IMDb button…
Oct 11th at 1:52 pm
Handy! thanx WordPress
Oct 11th at 2:44 pm
Nice feature,thanks Tony
Oct 11th 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.
Oct 11th 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?
Oct 11th at 2:58 pm
Hmmm, nice.
. I’m still doing that manually…
I would like something like this pointing to wikipedia
Oct 11th at 3:08 pm
Nice, thanx
Oct 11th at 3:22 pm
thanks yo\
Oct 11th at 3:25 pm
nice!! =D me like it!!
Oct 11th at 3:28 pm
Nice , thanks
But what about a wikipedia button (the English one or a combo box with all supported languages) ?!
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Anyway it is just a suggestion
Thanks again.