Google’s Ngram Viewer for Google Books, a tool that lets you see how the usage of specific words has increased and decreased over time, just got an update. The Ngram Viewer now draws upon a larger ...

Google never seems to stop surprising us with a constant stream of neat little projects that mine large datasets in interesting and unexpected ways. My topic today is yet another of these: Google’s ...

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It's been nearly three years since Google rolled out its Ngram Viewer, allowing armchair historians to plot the trajectories of words and phrases over time based on an enormous corpus of data ...

You may never get through all 500 billion words from more than 5 million books over five centuries. But you can find out, for instance, that "smartphone" is a lot older than you think. Lance Whitney ...

The Google Books Ngram Viewer got a new set of features today that will make it useful for more advanced research in corpus linguistics by adding wildcards and the ability to search for inflections ...

Google Ngram Viewer is a tool that allows users to search for a word or phrase in Google's vast collection of digitized books and graph the results. A lot of what you find exploring Ngram is pretty ...