Improving Google Dictionary's Search Success Rate
See original GitHub issueProblems:
- Neither
define:American
nordefine:american
works define:espionage
works butdefine:Espionage
does not
Observations:
meaning:american
works butmeaning:American
still does notmeaning:espionage
works butmeaning:Espionage
still does not
Suggestions:
- Uncapitalize the first letter of any input
- Use
meaning:
instead ofdefine:
as the default search operator - Try
define:
whenmeaning:
does not give any results
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 3 years ago
- Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)
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Top GitHub Comments
Thanks for the heads-up. I am going use the new method as fallback.
Note that
define
andmeaning
remain useful as they can correct wrong spellings and thus increase search success rate.For example, if I search by using
define:exisential
, google would return results ofdefine:existential
.Whereas if I simply use the link
https://www.google.com/search?q=dictionary&oq=dicitona&sclient=psy-ab#dobs=exisential
, it would returnNo definitions found for this word. Try searching the web
.