: Where does Google pull the results for the define operator Google has a define: operator which provides a list of definitions for a given word. Where does Google pull those definitions from?
Google has a define: operator which provides a list of definitions for a given word. Where does Google pull those definitions from? i.e. what does Google look for on a page to determine that that page is a definition for a word?
(This has been discussed a number of times on Webmaster World but nobody has come up with an answer yet.)
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It retrieves it from the most popular (linked and trusted) website on that topic which in many cases is wikipedia
Last August, they switched to the Oxford Pocket Dictionary.
Seems odd nobody figured this out or at least got close.
Just use the define operator on a few words, eg culture, love, robot.
Then do exact phrase searches for the definitions: culture, love, robot
In each case, the top result is at oxforddictionaries.com/ sometimes with slight variation since they probably use a different specific source dictionary of their own.
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