OneLook -- better than Dictionary.com

I was reading a book about Google last night; though their success seems inevitable now, there was a point where Yahoo was monetizing their page much more than Google and I could imagine a reasonable person wondering if Google had the right strategy?

Of course, the right strategy was to subordinate monetization to the "product"; offering the fastest and best search results is Google's essential element.

Dictionary.com has a lot of ads and a lot of street cred. Perhaps for this reason I kept it as my standard dictionary for years after discovering the superior OneLook. But today I switched. 

OneLook is a writer's dictionary. It's clean and uses a simple command box with instructions right beneath the box. Its best feature, however, is the reverse dictionary: you type a few words and it usually produces hundreds of words or phrases in a sort of semantic triangulation.

Just 'cause I'm at it, I also use these writing tools:

• www.rhymezone.com
  
• Jack Lynch Guide to Grammar and Style
• Unofficial Canadian Dictionary
• Catalysts of creativity: googlism, Google Sets and the full text of Ulysses (not sure why, but 10 minutes of reading this always refreshes my mind)
• The best web-based mind-mapping tool I can find: http://bubbl.us/
• How to edit copy.