Comparison and evaluation of a variety of electronic dictionaries

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If the time flowed back about a year ago, then the electronic dictionary basically does not need to compare the evaluation. Because Youdao dictionary advantages so that other similar products, then the Youdao dictionary user experience Excellent, the interpretation of superior, and almost refreshing without advertising interface Let people use it is almost a kind of enjoyment ...

However, now is a year later, this time the Youdao Dictionary Wei and introduced a lot of distracting thoughts, the PowerWord in a few years after the silence and fall after doom, then the Bing Dictionary after the Microsoft Force is also more mature, this time some of the more excellent electronic dictionaries have been the same as difficult points, There seems to be some need for comparative evaluation.

Need to explain, the evaluation of the use of PowerWord version is v4.1, Youdao dictionary is 5.4 43.3217, and the version of the Bing Dictionary is 2.1.0 (BETA).

Word Search Interface

PowerWord

First of all, we look at PowerWord search Word interface:

As shown in the picture above, the interface is fair, but directly to the user's basic interpretation is too simple, failed to allow users the first time in the first interface on the whole word on the general interpretation of an accurate and broad grasp.

In addition, although the verbs provide various forms of the verb, there are no synonyms, synonyms and other content.

Of course, the bottom of the interface, PowerWord presented ads.

Next, we look at PowerWord to the words provided by the detailed interpretation, the following figure:

The detailed explanation provides several dictionary explanations, such as Collins, Modern English-Chinese and English-Chinese bidirectional Dictionary. But much is the direct presentation of the contents of the dictionary, the example is not detailed enough, and most importantly, provide the sample sentence is not complete, can not let users have complete understanding of the whole sentence.

Finally, PowerWord in the search Word results page finally again presented the advertisement:

Although these ads are simply text ads, the overall user experience has not caused much impact, but when it comes to advertising, users always hope that the less the better.

Youdao Dictionary

After saying the user interface of Kingsoft, we will take a look at the interface of Youdao dictionary:

As shown above, Youdao Dictionary of the search word results of a compact, in the first screen in addition to understand the simple interpretation, but also can directly see Youdao dictionary after filtering the network interpretation, so that users can quickly check the word has a general understanding.

However, for such a verb, we can still only see its various tense forms, and do not provide synonyms, antonyms related content.

Of course, like Kingsoft, we regret to find ads at the bottom of the interface.

Then we look at the detailed explanation section of Youdao Dictionary, the following figure:

Here we found a Youdao dictionary for the word provided by the synonyms and the same root words, of course, there are more than PowerWord and unique rich examples, including bilingual examples, original examples and authoritative examples. And here the original example is a dictionary of the characteristics of the majority of its content from the film or public classes, to provide users with authentic English (American).

Finally, Youdao Dictionary also in the search Word results page finally presented the advertisement:

As shown above, there is a dictionary to provide a picture of advertising, but it should be noted that sometimes the ads here will be similar to PowerWord text ads.

In addition, here to check the results of the last some of the instructions, and again presented here, so a few lines of text content, it seems very unnecessary. If you declare copyright, you can add a page specifically to the "about" of the dictionary.

Bing Dictionary

Finally, let's look at the Bing Dictionary interface:

As shown in the figure above, it seems that the Bing dictionary is better than the word search results. It not only provides a concise interpretation of the words, various tenses of the part of the transformation, but also provides a synonym for the words searched. More importantly, all of these are rendered perfectly in the first screen, with the most information available without the need for more user action.

In addition, a little downward, you can learn more about the Word network interpretation, as well as English and English interpretation.

Of course, the Bing Dictionary Revelation a banner ad at the bottom of the dictionary interface.

The detailed interpretation interface of Bing Dictionary has been said above, including web interpretation and English-English interpretation, and then we'll look at the examples of the Bing dictionary, as shown below:

Here, Bing Dictionaries provide us with a rich sample of examples, and basically each word has 10 sentences. However, unfortunately, unlike Jinshan and Youdao dictionaries, these examples do not provide pronunciation. Next page