There has been a lot of news out Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA over the last couple weeks. The release of Google Goggles, Real-Time Search, and the rumors of the imminent release of the Google phone, the Nexus One, are just a few. In the face of this flurry of tech activity, the story we're talking about today has gone relatively unnoticed, but to people who write for a living, it's a very important release.
Back in September, I wrote
this article about the futility of subscription-based online dictionaries. I'd concluded by mentioning the fact that a simple search for a word does about as good a job providing a definition as any online dictionary does. Now, it seems that the folks at Google have to come to
roughly the same conclusion.
