There is now an 'image search' link under each word, which when clicked performs a Yahoo! image search and displays the results inline. On your profile you can set Wordie to do this automatically, obviating the need for the click.

Or if you prefer to kick it old school, you can turn it off entirely. Click on 'you', then 'edit personal preferences', and you'll see radio buttons that let you set image search to automatic, on demand, or not there at all.

One of Wordie's charms, I'm told, is the emphasis on text über alles, so I made this optional and tried to keep it subtle. But it's worth playing with, even if you are a textist. Yahoo! image search can be almost WeirdNetian in what it comes up with for more abstract terms, and for quotidian words it's an excellent image browser. Especially, if I may say, when married to Wordie.

Labels: features, images, search, weirdnet, Yahoo

Wordie has displayed a definition for most words for the past few months, but it had been displaying only the most common one, in order to keep the focus on the fun stuff: citations and comments added by members.

You can now see all the definitions available for a word, in case you want to save a trip to a proper dictionary or just want to see what other strange tricks WeirdNet has up its sleeve. I tried to keep it subtle, so you still see only the top-ranked one, but now with a "more" link just below it. Click and the rest appear.

I decided to leave out example sentences, thinking it might get in the way of people providing their own, but I'm happy to revisit that if people would like. Let me know.

Labels: features, weirdnet, wordnet