Doug Beeferman

For those who enjoyed this tool, I'm pleased to announce that a new version is out today. It has much greater coverage of concepts, better precision for short and long queries, a half dozen "live" filtering options, on-page definitions, and an improved layout that doesn't look quite so awful on mobile devices.

BTW, regarding stealing "SQ dudes" from Google: The Google search quality team (which includes more than "dudes", thankfully) has made great strides in serving dictionary-oriented queries the past few years. It's only a matter of time before they capture "reverse" search as well. (Indeed, some of the kinds of queries that the reverse dictionary gets can already be satisfied with a Google...

I'm excited to see the interest here. The reverse dictionary is a project of mine from nearly 12 years ago. I haven't updated it much since then other than to add the two most commonly requested features: part-of-speech filtering and an API. Sergei, I agree that the search quality can use some work. It's a deceptively hard problem. In contrast to Web search, the documents being...