Usability: NY Times
On the New York Times website www.nytimes.com, while reading an article when someone double-clicks a word a new window, containing the search results for the word, opens. The search includes results from a Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Wordnet.
Many a times while reading one encounters new words. When reading a book, I usually open a dictionary to research the word. While reading online I tend to copy the word and do one of the following
1. Google search for synonyms (~) or definitions (define ) View more details on this at http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html.
2. Use Dashboard Widget on my Mac to find the meaning of the word.
3. Visit dictionary.com and search for the word
On NY Times website, all one needs to do is double-click the word, which is incredibly easy. I checked a few more websites like LA Times and SF Chronicle, but they don't have this feature yet.
Many a times while reading one encounters new words. When reading a book, I usually open a dictionary to research the word. While reading online I tend to copy the word and do one of the following
1. Google search for synonyms (~
2. Use Dashboard Widget on my Mac to find the meaning of the word.
3. Visit dictionary.com and search for the word
On NY Times website, all one needs to do is double-click the word, which is incredibly easy. I checked a few more websites like LA Times and SF Chronicle, but they don't have this feature yet.
Labels: Usability
posted by Mohit Gupta at 6:47 PM
1 Comments:
Great secret feature you've found. Thanks for pointing this out.
Playing devil's advocate, one could argue that this feature is actually confusing for a non-tech savvy user.
While testing it out, I decided that I want to highlight a whole paragraph from NYT so I could (e.g. copy-paste it to an email or something). Upon selecting the text, a new pop-up opened up. What da?!?!?
I guess this is a great feature if one is expecting it, but for normal users, they would be kinda confused about it.
Just my $0.02. Thanks again for pointing it out, next time when I'm on NYT, I won't be startled when it opens up a pop-up thinking my pop-up blocker isn't working =)
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