Re: [edict-jmdict] Google Feature.

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@*********>]

On 12/03/2008, Jeroen Hoek <mail@jeroenhoek.nl> wrote:

> From what I've been able to find on this, it seems like whether or not
>  you get this search box for your website depends solely on Google's
>  algorithms:

I think this is correct. People don't find things in WWWJDIC by
Googling for them,
because Google doesn't (and shouldn't) have its bots exercise the form
interface to do dictionary entries.

>  I doubt wwwjdic is very eligible for this kind of (automatic)
>  treatment. For one, wwwjdic lacks a distinctive domain-name of its own
>  and resides in a "user's webspace" from a URL point of view (~jwb), so
>  it will probably be algorithmically associated with Monash University.

I don't think that would necessarily be a problem.

Have you tried www.wwwjdic.org, www.wwwjdic.net or www.wwwjdic.com?

Cheers

Jim

PS: "WWWJDIC" now gets 65,000 Googits. It's overtaken "Jim Breen"  8-)}

-- 
Jim Breen
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/