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Cool google tool shows word usage in books over time
Google has a cool tool that lets to see how common certain words are in books over time.
Check it out here:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph
Examples:
usage of the word 'michael' over time
usage of the word 'otis' over time
usage of the word 'huge' over time
What cool trends can you guys find? Reply in the comments below.
Check it out here:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph
Examples:
usage of the word 'michael' over time
usage of the word 'otis' over time
usage of the word 'huge' over time
What cool trends can you guys find? Reply in the comments below.
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Dec 18, 2010 09:48AM
Very cool! The most interesting one I saw was "Christmas." I wonder why it was hardly used in the 1700s? Then there was another low point in the 1970s.
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Fun (scaled to 0.01%), but addictive (scaled to 0.0002%).Read (scaled to 0.05%) and write (scaled to 0.02%) have a parallel trend with a dip around 1970.
Good (scaled to 0.2%) and bad (scaled to 0.02%) are both currently rebounding from a downward dip.
Something different happened around 1800 to taste (scaled to 0.01%) and smell (scaled to 0.003%) than to see (scaled to 0.1%), hear (scaled to 0.04%) and touch (scaled to 0.009%).
Very cool! I couldn't come up with as many examples.
"infernal" was very popular in the 1600's.
It will combine results for several words on one graph -- here's evolution and creation and pear, apple, banana, peach
pjreads ♫ wrote: "It will combine results for several words on one graph -- here's evolution and creation and pear, apple, banana, peach"
So cool!
