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 ...

Five years ago, Google unveiled a shiny new toy for nerds. The Google Ngram Viewer is seductively simple: Type in a word or phrase and out pops a chart tracking its popularity in books. Millions of ...

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One of the unsung heroes of Google’s bevy of reference tools is the Google Books Ngram Viewer. As Google has scanned millions of dead-tree books, it’s indexed the terms referenced in them, and the ...

Indexing low-quality books may mean the language research tool Ngram will also get trash results. Indexing low-quality books may mean the language research tool Ngram will also get trash results. is a ...

The Google Books Ngram Viewer, a tool that shows you how often phrases occur in books over time, now shows data through 2019. In short, this tool displays a graph showing how those phrases have ...

The Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times, the Harvard Gazette, and Science have all reported on the news from Google. The company has made publicly available a database of all the words ...