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24 alternatives to Google Books for writers
It finds best synonyms from Google Books when you press a hotkey - 0b01/bodine
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Google Books for writers launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A Google Docs add-on that uses AI to give you synonyms
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Books Search with Typesense
2020 · books-search.typesense.org · its alternatives →
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Synonymful▲240Improve your vocabulary and communicate like a pro.
2017 · synonymful.com · its alternatives →
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A book for bloggers, writers, engineers, designers, & more
2014 · its alternatives →
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Books recommended by the world's most successful people
2020 · mostrecommendedbooks.com · its alternatives →
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wits.io▲230Weekly book summaries recommended by founders and makers
2017 · wits.io · its alternatives →
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A simple thesaurus extension for Chrome
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Browse passages from books using experimental AI
2018 · books.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to gather the most mentioned books and recreate the serendipity of physical browsing. I scraped 20k comments from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references and opinions using GPT-4o mini, and visualised their embeddings as a map. - OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those clusters tend to correspond to different genres. The genre…
2024 · hnbooks.pieterma.es · its alternatives →
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A guide to using, mastering, and maximizing Google AdWords
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The smartest Google Search assistant powered by highlights
2020 · dynamic-link.getliner.com · its alternatives →
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Compare! 📚▲190See the overlap of top founders' recommended books
2021 · mostrecommendedbooks.com · its alternatives →
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GPT-3 Books▲141Book recommendations powered by OpenAI
2020 · mostrecommendedbooks.com · its alternatives →
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DailyWise▲170Your daily dose of wisdom from the best books
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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BingeBooks▲98The book bingeing site to find your next great read
2022 · bingebooks.com · its alternatives →
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Book Advisor▲77Stop wasting time searching for the next great book.
2023 · notioninja.com · its alternatives →
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As non-native English speakers, we're often advised to avoid overusing intensifiers like "very". This is a simple app to find synonyms of "very x" phrases that are not always possible to find using a standard thesaurus. Built it using OpenAI, FastAPI, and MongoDB (to cache the results).
2024 · insteadofvery.com · its alternatives →
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The ultimate beginner's guide to search engine optimization
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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KeywordSea▲104A keyword research tool using Google Search Suggestions data
2022 · keywordsea.com · its alternatives →
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An in-depth look at using AdWords effectively
2015 · bgtheory.com · its alternatives →
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