Re: API- Acroynm Definition

[marijane -at- computer -dot- org]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Mike O. wrote:

> At the risk of being one of the inevitable "look-it-up-in-google" 
> trolls... may I point out that Google has a little-known feature for 
> finding definitions. In Google, type
> 
>    term:definition
> 
> to get a definition of almost anything. It's usually pretty good; I use 
> it all the time.
> 
> For example, type "api:definition" and the first hit is a pretty good 
> definition of an API.

Google actually has a keyword for producing dictionary-specific searches.  
It rocks; I stopped using dictionary.com after I found out about it. 

Just prepend any query with "define:" and you'll get a list of definitions
(that's _just_ definitions, no web page search results) for the terms you
search on.  Single-word queries work best in my experience.

For example: http://www.google.com/search?q=define:api

=)


Marijane


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