Ordbogen.com
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| Type of business | Private |
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Type of site
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Dictionary |
| Available in | Danish |
| Founded | December 19, 2001 |
| Headquarters | Odense, Denmark |
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| Industry | Reference/Education |
| Slogan(s) |
Danmarks Største Online Ordbog ("Denmark's Largest Online Dictionary") |
| Website | Ordbogen.com |
| Alexa rank | 36,645 (worldwide) 179 (Denmark) - As of July 2016 |
| Advertising | none |
| Launched | August 2003 November 1, 2006 (relaunch) |
Ordbogen A/S is an online education and language technology company located in Odense, Denmark. It is Denmark's largest web-based dictionary company, with more than 100 digital dictionaries and 1+ million article searches per day. The name Ordbogen means the dictionary in Danish.
Ordbogen A/S itself comprises several products: Two dictionary sites, Ordbogen.com and the forthcoming international site Lemma.com, and two online teaching resources Grammatip.com (grammar and spelling) and Educas.com, (all subjects of the Danish school system, 1st-10th grade). Ordbogen.com, Grammatip.com and Educas.com are all aimed at the Danish market, whereas Lemma.com targets the international market with dictionaries written in 45 languages. As of May 2016, the company has grown to more than 100 employees (with the goal of recruiting 30 more by 2017). Ordbogen has employees spanning 15 nationalities, who speak 20 different languages. The company was awarded six consecutive Børsen Gazelle Awards (2008-2013), which are awarded to the fastest growing companies in Denmark.
In 2001, Michael Walther, Bjarni Norddahl, Thomas Thomsen and Jacob Hatt founded the company Cool Systems ApS. Their associated website, coolsms.dk became one of the biggest websites in Denmark at that point in time, with 266,000 visits a day. The website allowed people to send text messages online at a lower price than the telephone companies’ usual price. Shortly after the release of coolsms.dk, Thomas Thomsen and Jacob Hatt left the company. In 2003, the remaining founders, Michael Walther and Bjarni Norddahl, went on to change Cool Systems ApS to Ordbogen ApS, and later, converted to a public limited liability company - Ordbogen A/S. 2003 was also the year when Ordbogen A/S released Ordbogen.com - the first subscription-based dictionary website in Denmark, offering easy access to a high-quality Danish-English/English-Danish dictionary, edited by Jørgen Rohde, translator and editor.
By 2005, the company replaced the previous dictionary with a new version tailored for web use, which was the company’s first self-produced dictionary. That same year, Ordbogen also became strategic partners with the Centre for Lexicography at Aarhus University in order to publish their dictionary Den Danske Netordbog (Engl.: “the Danish Internet Dictionary”).
A year later, in 2006, Ordbogen A/S released their second bilingual and self-produced dictionary, Danish-German/German-Danish.
During this period, Ordbogen received the Børsen Gazelle award six years in a row. In 2010, Ordbogen acquired the online grammar teaching system Grammatip, and that same year they entered into another strategic partnership with the publishers JP/Politikens Hus, followed by the Danish Language Council, Dansk Sprognævn, in 2011.
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