What are the terms of the Answers.com-Google deal around dictionary definitions for search terms on google.com?
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Ex. If you search for "arthritis" and you guys end up here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=arthritis&aq=0&oq=arthri&aqi=g10 then there is a thing on the right that says arthritis [defintion] and the link goes to http://Answers.com. I've heard that is because of a BD deal between http://Answers.com and Google. What are the terms of that deal?
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Answer:
There was no deal, Google simply decided to provide this feature to its users, for nearly five years. In December 2009 Google decided to implement its own definition feature and to point the traffic to that. More on this here http://managinggreatness.com/2009/12/06/the-google-definition-link-and-answers-com/
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Other answers
Whatever it was, it must have finally expired, because Google just replaced all the "definition" links with links to Google Dictionary: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/12/google-dictionary.html
Adam D'Angelo
According to Answer.com's 10K from March 8, 2010, the dictionary deal with Google accounted for ~5% of Answer.com's revenue.
Christina Cacioppo
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