Memidex news
2013-01-01:
- Added over 6 000 distinct terms
- Fixed sorting of new senses
- Tightened adult filtering
2012-10-05:
- Added over 15 000 distinct terms
- Adjusted formatting for displays 600 to 640 pixels wide
- Indexed tens of thousands of new pages for Collins Dictionary
2012-05-15:
- Added over 4000 distinct terms
- New total of over 20.5 million reference links
2012-02-13:
- Added audio, definition, and etymology references to Collins Dictionary
- Added almost 9000 distinct terms
- New total of over 20 million reference links
- Marked Encarta references as "offline"
- Fixed formatting issues
2011-09-13:
- Added over 8000 distinct terms
- Added over 300 000 image gallery pages and over 1.5 million image references
- New total of over 17.5 million reference links
2011-08-01:
- Added over 6000 distinct terms
- Added support for up to 4 image thumbnails per source
- Improved image thumbnails for Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Added adult-filtering for certain reference images
- Updated the Spread the Word menu
- Other minor improvements and fixes made
2011-07-01:
- Added over 1.5 million image references to Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Encyclopaedia Britannica, YourDictionary.com, and Merriam-Webster
- Other minor improvements and fixes made
2011-05-31:
- Added over 285 thousand image references (with small- and medium-sized thumbnails) to Wikipedia and Wiktionary
- Other minor improvements and fixes made
2011-05-04:
- Added definition and audio links to Cambridge Dictionary
- Added audio links to freedictionary.org
- Added almost 1400 affix entries
- New total total of 14.3 million reference links
- Added more details to multi-sense pages
- Improved output for the Memidex bookmarklet and Define button
- Improved obscene word detection for adult-filtering
- Removed some redundant Memidex cross-reference links
- Improved sorting of synonyms
- Moved "[cite]" links for Memidex pages themselves to the top
- Improved parsing for certain external reference sources
- Improved meta descriptions (sometimes used by search engines)
- Other minor improvements and fixes made
2011-04-06: eSchool News Awards Memidex Site of the Week
Read the full story at: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/04/06/memidex-offers-millions-of-word-definitions-etymology-and-audio-pronunciations/
2011-03-30: Memidex Is A Great Dictionary... And More!
Read the full story at: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2011/03/30/memidex-is-a-great-dictionary-and-more/
2011-03-24: Memidex Launches New Online Meta-Dictionary
Read the full story at: http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/memidex-launches-new-online-meta-dictionary_b8098
2011-03-23:
2011-03-02:
- To better respect copyrights, each protected audio is now limited to one playback per Memidex session (public domain sources like Wikipedia and Wiktionary remain unlimited)
- To improve navigation, added links to go to the tops of the pages
2011-02-24:
- Added over 5.3 million audio reference links, including links to the Free Dictionary and Google Dictionary
- New total of over 12.4 million reference links
- Improved reference link matching
- Other minor improvements and fixes made
2011-01-20:
- Improved parsing and matching for external reference links
- New total of over 6.4 million reference links (including over 1.7 million etymology links)
- Auto-Suggest term filtering further improved
- Other minor fixes and improvements made
2010-12-10:
- Added reference links to Oxford Dictionaries
- Improved parsing for external reference links
- New total of over ?.? million reference links
- Improved sorting and meta descriptions on multi-sense pages
- Formatting of reference links improved
- For faster viewing, reference links limited to 5 on mobile-only versions of pages
- Adult-Filter now generates an on-page message instead of a dialog box
- Auto-Suggest term filtering improved
2010-11-01:
2010-10-04:
- Added reference links to Webster's New World College Dictionary and American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition at Infoplease.com
- Improved how external reference links are matched to Memidex terms
- Improved parsing for external reference links
- New total of over 3.7 million reference links
- Minor fixes and updates made
2010-08-06:
- Added reference links to Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th edition
- Added "cite" links to get bibligraphic citations for each reference link
- Improved how external reference links are matched to Memidex terms
- Improved parsing for external reference links
- New total of over 2.7 million reference links
- To simplify pages, removed links within definitions and summaries
- For quick definitions without leaving a page, added a Define button to all pages (for browsers supporting JavaScript)
- To more easily lookup terms, text you select is now automatically copied to the Find box (for browsers supporting JavaScript)
2010-06-14:
- Added reference links to the MSN Encarta and Random House dictionaries
- Improved how external reference links are matched to Memidex terms
- Improved parsing for external reference links
- New total of over 2.5 million reference links
2010-05-05:
2010-04-07:
- Added over half-a-million reference links to Wikipedia and Wiktionary
- Minor fixes and updates made
- Happy birthday Liam :)
2009-12-08:
- Minor performance improvements made
- Other minor fixes and updates made
2009-11-30:
- Terms added, including: 411, aerobicized, agroterrorism, andropause, audiophile, backstory, baggravation, best-of-breed, CAPTCHA, celebutante, crunk, cybercitizen, elephant in the room, extraordinary rendition, hardscape, hoodie, IMHO, inline skate, Japanimation, krump, male menopause, mall rat, manga, McJob, metrosexual, microblog, netbook, netizen, retronym, retrosexual, sexaholic, social networking, tween, unfriend, videophile, viropause
- Fixes and updates made
2009-10-16:
New free tools from Memidex are some of the quickest and easiest ways to get definitions without leaving a web page.
2009-09-18:
Memidex makes over half-a-million web pages of useful reference information more accessible to wireless devices and desktops.
2009-06-20:
2009-04-17: Memidex reaches over half-a-million web pages
- 117 716 senses/definitions
- 289 211 words/phrases
- 501 943 web pages
- Auto-Suggest feature beta released
2009-03-20: Memidex adds over 15 000 web pages
- 117 701 senses/definitions
- 281 451 words/phrases
- 493 787 web pages
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Added locate links for references with geo-coordinate information
Added Spread the Word menus to help users share/bookmark Memidex
2009-10-06: Memidex online dictionary and thesaurus releases free tools
2009-07-22: Memidex free online dictionary and thesaurus supports handhelds and mobiles