Google gets better. Again.

Cool. You can now do 'definition' searches directly via the Google search box. It's a bit like the dictionary function that is already part and parcel of any Google search (where clicking on any of the returned word phrases takes you over to dictionary.com to see the definitions there), but works by returning the definition at the top of the first search results page. So, a search for...

define gay

...returns 'someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex' (from www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn), and then the usual Google returns from the search phrase 'define gay'. You can get a list of definitions by adding a colon after the word define, eg...

define: gay

...which, although mostly pretty good with regards to the results returned, makes you wonder who Google are getting to select their sources. Down the bottom of this list (when I looked, anyway), was this entry...

"To some the ultimate form of male bonding, to others the ulitmate in mal-bonding."

I mean, other than the spelling mistake, the definition is drawn from 'The Politically Incorrect Dictionary' website, which is hosted on, ugh, geocities.
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