SPAMDEX
\spˈamdɛks], \spˈamdɛks], \s_p_ˈa_m_d_ɛ_k_s]\
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(Presumably from "spam", "index") wordspamming."Spamdexing has come a long way from the halcyon days of thesummer of 1995. Back then, all one needed to do was add theword 'sex' a thousand times at the end of a Web page toattract attention from the likes of Lycos. The search-engineoperators caught on fast" -- Andrew Leonard, Hotwired 1996(http://packet.com/packet/leonard/96/32/index3a.html).
By Denis Howe
Word of the day
basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).