When the Tomísimo mobile search was released, I mentioned that it was running off a newer, expanded version of the dictionary database, which the main site still wasn’t using. Then in January I wrote that the new dictionary corpus was almost ready to go live.

It is now live.

There have been numerous other bugfixes and improvement with the dictionary. For example it now simply returns the first 100 results instead of returning only 90 results and splitting them across three pages. The forums have also been improved by moving over to new forum software.

If I go on, I won’t get anything else done today, so check it all out and let me know what you think.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that there’s a couple of keyboard shortcuts when using the dictionary. If you hit ’s’ it will take you directly to the search box so your hands don’t have to leave the keyboard. Also, you probably already know that you can click on any of the words in the results to search for that word. If you want to search for a phrase that’s there, just highlight it and hit ‘g’. You’ll be taken to the search box and whatever you had highlighted will be pasted in there so you can hit enter.

Dictionary keyboard shorcuts:
’s’ => Search
‘g’ => Go to the search box and paste whatever text you highlighted

EDIT #2: After thinking about this, it didn’t make any sense to use 2 different keys, so ’s’ works for both going to the search box or copying whatever text you have highlighted on the page into the search box. So…

s => Go to the Search box (if there’s any selected text on the page, it will be copied into the search box)
b => Ir a la Búsqueda (Si tienes texto en la página seleccionado, será copiado y pegado en el cuadro de búsqueda)

13 February 2007 1:15 pm
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