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getting dict around

While visiting the Firefox site this morning to see if there are any updates, I noticed that it should do dictionary lookups right from the location (URI) field. Just type "dict word" where "word" is the term under investigation. Only it doesn't really work. Several different dictionary sites will be load, dependent on the word accessed. That's not bad per se, but some words returned non-dictionary pages. The first word worked, apparently coincidently: "fecund" lead to synonym results on die.net, which in turn has a sidebar link for Lies.com which is providing evidence for investigation for putting Bush away for a term. Which, really, would make all this worthwhile.

Update: Mea culpa. It's not a "dictionary search," it's a "Keyword search." Keywords look pretty cool.
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