Dr Johnson would approve..or would he?

Wordnik looks like a great little site that has just been launched in Beta.

It is essentially a bit of a combination between a wiki and a dictionary. It aims to keep up with language as it evolves via crowd sourced references definitions and importantly contextual feeds. So if you type in a word it brings back a variety of definitions, references, pronounciations. It pulls in statistics both historical and real time, pulls examples off twitter and blogs etc and looks like a nice experiment.



I couldn't help but reference the infamous episode of Blackadder with Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Johnson.

It's Search Jim but not as we know it

I just saw this on the Google Blog - Search Wiki - they are releasing a new piece of functionality if you are logged in to your Google account and use the search engine you can personalise the search results you see. so if your favorite Football site only ever appears at 4th position you can move it to position 1 and add a comment about it.

I wonder what effect this will have over time and how it will in turn affect PPC revenue and adwords relevance etc.

Check out the video to see how it works: