Google to define everything
Having control over the entire Internet is obviously not enough for Google, as the firm wants control of the English language too.
The firm announced on Friday it would be launching its own online dictionary that it claims will have "authoritative definitions of terms," example sentences, similar phrases and other bits and bobs of information pulled from the likes of Wikipedia.
Previously, when users typed words into Google, links to "definition" would usually go to a plethora of different online dictionaries, or answers.com, but now that link will redirect to Google's own dictionary page, according to the LA Times Tech blog.
As of yet, the firm hasn't discussed whether there will be any advertising on the dictionary site, but knowing Google, that shouldn't take too long.
In other Google news, the firm is continuing to spend its way out of the recession, snapping up two-year-old start-up company AppJet, in the hope of integrating it into Google Wave.
AppJet, which boasts several former Google employees among its executives, previously developed the EtherPad online word processor, which is touted as "the only web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time." Seems Google wants to bring its brilliant ones back into the fold.
