A wide web of words

Share How Waterloo and the New Oxford English Dictionary Project helped create the modern search engine In an age of search engines, online databases, and AI assistants, it is easy to forget that for most of modern history research was done using books, paper, and pencils. If you have ever looked up a definition or searched the etymology of a word online instead of driving to the library, you have the Waterloo innovators behind the New Oxford English Dictionary Project to thank. When the original Oxford English Dictionary — the largest and most comprehensive history of the English language eve