Google's Newest Tool Is Just Too Fucking Cool
 

Google's N-Gram Viewer lets users search a 500 billion word database (from 5 million books) for how frequently authors have used a word, from 1800 to the present: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/.

Here's a report: http://www.npr.org/2010/12/16/132106...nge-with-words

And here are searches I ran for "communism", "god", and "internet":

http://www.elevenentertainment.com/gfy/google_ngram.jpg

Very cool but... useless

tired 10 words, only 3 showed up....

fucking useless

It's now official. The Google idea well has run dry.

I don't know. It seems like a good compliment to Google Trends. You can see word popularity over time.

Now we're going to have people writing ebooks using only the most popular words on Google's list.

Google money well spent. Failure.

that's a really cool idea.. is it able to search for phrases or just words?

lmgtfy.. sorry

Hmmm....

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?c...&year_end=2008

Allllright.

Appears shit is getting thicker after all

haha @ faggot

i think the word was mostly used as a term for measurement

The modern day equivalent of 1970's kids looking up rude words in the dictionary....

:thumbsup

Boys' Life - Sep 1927 - Page 53

64 pages - Magazine - Full view
The slim body did not move so fast this time and the big cock punished him severely. ... Again and again the big cock scored him

That is pretty kool.

This is priceless for building an article rewriter that can be difficult to tell from a real writer.

interesting to see how phrases and specific words are used throughout time

Stop thinking, it's useless! :1orglaugh

Pretty interesting :thumbsup

some interesting charts...

useful if you're writing a book yourself, to stay off the beaten path