
Hyperwords is a Firefox extension, which, upon highlighting words, lets you search for them in various search engines, look them up on dictionaries or find a location on a map, amongst other things. Unlike previous efforts at this like eZula Toptext and Flyswat, it will work on all works and not just those where advertisers have paid for them, and it doesn’t modify how the pages look in any way. Potentially it looks very useful.