"Dictionary This"!!!

I am back. No broken arms. No broken legs. Nor any broken head. Thank God. I can say that I didn't have any serious crash or accident. Oh I only kind of ran into a lady while snowboarding down. But it was her own fault. Anyways…

Today, I came up with a brilliant idea. Do you know the Google Toolbar? If you havenit already downloaded it, go get it. The least it does is that it blocks almost all the stupid pop-ups. I have been surfing the net pop-up-free for 6-7 months and I am lovin' it. Anyhow, back to my brilliant idea. On this Google Toolbar, there are few buttons which you could click on and perform different tasks. For example, there is a button that if you are reading a website and you want to refer to it in your blog, you click on the "Blog This" button, you sign into Blogger, and KABOOM, you got yourself a post with a link to the website. So I thought they should have a "Dictionary" button so you could highlight a word in a webpage and then click on "Dictionary This"!! KABOOM, you have the definition. Getting all excited about the idea, I thought I should email them. But I thought I should check carefully to make sure they didn't already have a dictionary link, cause if they did, it would make look like a fool. I did search their toolbar and couldn't find anything. So I emailed them. After a few hours, here is what they wrote back:

"Hi Foad,

Thank you for the suggestion on improving the Google Toolbar by adding a
dictionary button. Please note that there is a link to a dictionary
website on our toolbar at this time. To use this feature, simply enter
your search term in the search box, then click on the drop-down arrow to
the right of the 'Search Web' button and select 'Dictionary' from the
drop-down list. We really appreciate thoughtful feedback from our users,
and we'll keep yours in mind for the future.

Regards,
The Google Team"


Ok people, which one is better, a lousy 'Dictionary' thingy (not button) in a drop box under 'Search Web', or a "Dictionary This" button?? But I guess I didn’t completely look like a fool, just a bit. Anyways, that was a story I felt like sharing with you.

Till later, peace out…