The problem with Definitions, Synonyms & Abbreviations.com

I mentioned in this blog about Definitions.net and Synonyms.net joined Abbreviations.com and after reading a comment/question on what is the meaning of Donna,  I checked for it.  It means "An Italian woman of rank" but I'm not impressed with that there is publicly available image of naked women when I look-up for the meaning of Donna using their service.

Yigal Ben Efraim, CEO and founder of Synonyms.net respond by posting a comment.  Thanks but I wonder why there's a need to add images when a user will search for definitions of a word or name? I just tried the service again and there's still images.  Not as bad as when I first saw it last January but still images is there.  I think the service is great because it'll be handy for those who need it (online or using widget for Mac, add-on for Firefox etc) but I don't think an image is needed.  I noticed that not all defined words has an image which is good.

Published Wed, May 14 2008 4:06 by donna

Comments

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:33 AM by Yigal Ben Efraim

# re: The problem with Definitions, Synonyms & Abbreviations.com

Dear Donna,

Thanks for your post.

Our images section is generated using an API from Google. Image recognition is a tough technological challenge, even for a company like Google, and I agree sometimes the images are not appropriate enough.

Having said that, and as we always want to improve our users' experience we now let users to decide whether they would like to see images for synonyms and definitions or not. This is being controlled through our preferences page located at: www.definitions.net/preferences.asp

I hope you'll find it sufficient and helpful.

I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce the new websites we've added to our network: http://www.USZip.com a zip code lookup service that also provides demographic and geographic data, and http://www.references.net which is a unique reference web directory.

Thanks again,

Yigal Ben Efraim

CEO

STANDS4 LLc

Friday, May 16, 2008 2:26 PM by donna

# re: The problem with Definitions, Synonyms & Abbreviations.com

Hi Yigal,

Thanks for pointing to the preferences page! That's helpful.  I hope you don't mind me requesting to kindly make it the "login and prefs" more visible.  I did not notice it and I can imagine some of visitors will not notice it also :)

Nice to see new services in your network.  More power!