Google has a new capability--ngrams!
The amazing application announced yesterday that allows you to easily analyze “the 500 billion words contained in books published between 1500 and 2008 in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Russian.
Take a peek @
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/
Some interesting articles:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html?_r=1&hp
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_visualization_tool_from_google_with_data_from.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=google-books-culture
http://peterpappas.blogs.com/copy_paste/2010/12/how-to-quantify-culture-google-ngram-viewer-explore-500-billion-published-words.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/vampire-vs-zombie-comparing-word-usage-through-time/68203/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_fascinating_word_graphs_from_200_years_of_googl.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)
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dmac
Another very cool tool from Google. Especially interesting if you are a wordsmith.
ReplyDeletedmac
thats a cool thing to mess with
ReplyDeletethats pretty cool if it really works for n e thing
ReplyDeletethats a pretty cool thing to give you info an to show u a graph.
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