"Google Labs recently provided the internet with a brand new toy: the Books Ngram Viewer. This “research tool” allows you to search the occurrences of words or phrases from over five million books, dating all the way back to the year 1500. Of course, Google created this graphing tool to help literary scholars view trends in literature."
Google Ngram Viewer - like Google Earth it can be used for research, or the greatest time-waster ever invented.
There are problems with the raw data. It will likely be cleaned up quicker if there are tools like Ngram to play with the data.
(Google’s word engine isn’t ready for prime time - Natalie Binder, The Binder Blog)
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