A few months ago I recommended the word search of the RAE (Royal Spanish Academy). And I consider it an essential tool for children, and adults, to become familiar with the use of a dictionary using the Internet. Although the usability of the page can be improved the truth is that use is very simple, because by typing the url: //lema.rae.es/drae/?val=palabraforsearch, you get access to a complete definition of the word. This way of searching changed it recently, in my opinion worse, although at least it still allows you to search for the word without missing a page where it seems that there must be everything and it is difficult to find what you are looking for.
Given the success of the page among the students and the elderly, we also use it and that makes the page traffic reach the forty million queries per month, it seems that the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and in view of financing needs, aims to include advertising on the page of the Dictionary of the Language. In any case, the consultations on the page would remain free as reported by the director of the Royal Spanish Academy, José Manuel Blecua.
Let us remember that in addition to the Dictionary, you can consult the new Grammar, the new Spelling, the Pan-Hispanic Doubt Dictionary and other works published by the RAE. The companies that may include the advertising of their products and services on the page seem to be known in October 2014, when the new paper edition of the DRAE is published. The objective of the Institution is to have a economic model that provides independence and autonomy.
I hope that the possession of advertising on the page does not alter the content of the product and service that is offered now that it is of extraordinary quality. I want people who are analyzing the options have criteria and apply mechanisms for advertising is not heavy, intrusive, interrupting and that helps the SAR to maintain its standards of quality and good work to preserve knowledge and dissemination of the rich Spanish language throughout the world.
