Answers.com, last month’s Search Engine of the Month, just announced a partnership with WordPress, the blogging service.
Starting now, bloggers using WordPress as their blogging platform will be offered an integrated tool to link words in their posts to definitions and explanations from Answers.com. The service will also be available as a plug-in service.
To use the new feature, WordPress bloggers will press the AnswerLinks ™ icon on the WordPress editing toolbar to trigger an application that will suggest terms for automatic linking. Typical suggestions will include names, technical terms or obscure language that may not be familiar to some readers. Only words confirmed by the author will be linked to definitions, assuring full editorial control.
A word from Answers.com’s CEO:
“Answers.com has a thriving, ongoing relationship with the publishing community,” explained Bob Rosenschein, Chairman and CEO, “and we’re delighted to provide such an innovative tool on a leading blogging platform like WordPress.com. The goal of the integration is to help the blogger maintain the flow of his or her writing, without needing to pause to provide explanations inside the text. It’s also a quick and simple way to keep readers from the distractions that cause them to leave, in search of an explanation for an unfamiliar reference.”
A word from WordPress’s CEO:
“We’re particular about the tools we add to our core user experience,” added Toni Schneider, CEO of Automatic. “We trust that AnswerLinks will be a helpful publishing enhancement for our over 1.6 million WordPress.com bloggers.”
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October 12th, 2007 at 10:49 am
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October 12th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
That’s interesting. I’m using similar plug-in to link words from my WP based blogs to the 43n39e search engine for about a year ago. My plug-in is based on WPKeys plug-in (unfortunately, wpkeys.com is picked-up by a cybersquatter, originl contand has gone). I’m curious, why this feature isn’t implemented for top tier search engines so long.
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November 2nd, 2007 at 6:08 am
this seems interesting and should make blogs alot more factual for readers.
November 6th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Thanks for the really helpful info. That’s a 5 stars for sure.
November 6th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
The site looks pretty good, Wordpress really is great!
Very informative blog.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
After reading your blog, I am planning to start a wordpress blog myself! Thanks for the info..