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Google Labs: Books Ngram Viewer

• ddlatham 16y ago
  http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=color,colour&year_start=1820 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=color,colour&... Note the effects of the world wars.
• goldins 16y ago
  An interesting thing I noticed is that the usage of the word "the" has decreased by about 1% in the last century (which I think is significant considering the data). I wonder what the reason for this is.
• jambo 16y ago
  I'm very happy to see Google offering the ngram counts for free download (http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets), which I wasn't expecting, given their earlier web corpus data release on DVDs. Maybe we'll see an update on that front, too.
• gmartres 16y ago
  Great! It just lacks an option for case-insensitive search.
• programd 16y ago
  There has been a ginormous increase in the use of the word "ginormous" in the last decade.
• wgrover 16y ago
  Try "war": (http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=war&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=war&year_star...). Nice peaks on WWI, WWII, and Vietnam; maybe a tiny peak on the Gulf War. Any other search terms where you can see meaningful fluctuations?
  • tudorw 16y ago
    is good about to triumph over bad ?http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=angel,devil&year_start=1820&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=angel,devil&y...
    • tudorw 16y ago
      Man vs Machine http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=PC,+secretary&year_start=1820&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=PC,+secretary&#38...
  • rbancroft 16y ago
    Yes, that was a cool one. murder: pretty cyclical and consistent rape: massive spike in the 80s and 90's, and declining a bit fraud: blip after WW2, then pretty stable up to around 1995 nazi: interesting trends there oil: some more interesting trends, a large spike in the early 80's Interesting that the trends for freedom and liberty differ quite significantly, although they have some of the same 'humps'. Liberty has an uptick after 2000, whereas freedom does not.
  • igravious 16y ago
    And you didn't try War and Peace? I did. Which term occurs more often in the corpus do you reckon? Try going back to 1500. Are you surprised? How about trying Love and War for all you hippies out there. What does this all say about humanity?
  • jluxenberg 16y ago
    Also, "atomic": http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=atomic&year_start=1920&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=2 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=atomic&year_s...
• akozak 16y ago
  This is really fun to play with: http://goo.gl/mNSDD http://goo.gl/mNSDD
  • shib71 16y ago
    Why would you use a shortener when there is no need? Especially when the URL is useful as it is here.
    • pkamb 16y ago
      I think it was an atheist rick-roll.
    • akozak 16y ago
      It's fun to track how many clicks it gets, and I'd already had it on my clipboard for twitter :)
  • makmanalp 16y ago
    http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=christianity%2C+islam%2C+judaism%2C+buddhism%2C+atheism&year_start=1820&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=christianity%2C+i...
    • akozak 16y ago
      It's actually case-sensitive, so here's a more accurate comparison: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Christianity,Islam,Judaism,Buddhism,atheism&year_start=1820&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Christianity,Isla...
• dchest 16y ago
  "computer" and "internet" reveal Y2K problem.
• staticshock 16y ago
  i'm surprised that "star wars" has never been able to eclipse "galoshes": http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=star+wars,+galoshes&year_start=1920&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=star+wars,+galosh...
• Jun8 16y ago
  Try "nerd". Like what you would expect. Now, try "sexy nerd". Sigh!
• msbmsb 16y ago
  one,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight,nine,ten http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree%2Cfour%2Cfive%2Csix%2Cseven%2Ceight%2Cnine%2Cten&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=0 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree... In order, except "ten" shows up between "six" and "seven".
  • igravious 16y ago
    That's interesting, isn't it? I think this proportionality is related to a quirk of human perception. If you are shown briefly a set of objects the average person is able (at a glance) to quickly count those objects for a low value whose threshold is around six or seven. Thus when the number goes any higher the individual will respond that there were "less than ten" or "fewer than ten". Of course because humans have standardized on base 10 as there counting system then ten will get bumped up in any distribution but to predict that it would occur between six and seven (the number of man and divinity no less) would be difficult. What about 11 to 20? Hmm, it (roughly) goes: twenty, twelve, fifteen, eleven, eighteen, fourteen, sixteen, thirteen, seventeen, nineteen! Just what I expected :)
  • ivancho 16y ago
    perfect example of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
    • msbmsb 16y ago
      Exactly
  • msbmsb 16y ago
    Also interesting, the 1700s were not kind to the numbers "six" or "seven": http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree%2Cfour%2Cfive%2Csix%2Cseven%2Ceight%2Cnine%2Cten&year_start=1700&year_end=1820&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree...
  • dwiel 16y ago
    1,2,3,one,two,three http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=1%2C2%2C3%2Cone%2Ctwo%2Cthree&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=0 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=1%2C2%2C3%2Cone%2... for a short period of time in the 80s and 90s, 1 was more popular than one, where from the 1700s through 1950s, 1 was half as popular as one ...
• msbmsb 16y ago
  The parsing of contractions/words with apostrophes is broken/unsupported: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=can%27t%2Ccouldn%27t%2Cwouldn%27t%2Cshouldn%27t%2Cdon%27t&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=0 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=can%27t%2Ccouldn%... vs http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=t%2Ccan%27t%2Ccouldn%27t%2Cwouldn%27t%2Cshouldn%27t%2Cdon%27t&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=0 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=t%2Ccan%27t%2Ccou...
• igravious 16y ago
  Hey Google! Combine this with Google Sets ( from Labs as well http://labs.google.com/sets?hl=en&q1=immigration&q2=taxation&q3=economy&q4=&q5=&btn=Large+Set http://labs.google.com/sets?hl=en&q1=immigration&q2=... ) so that I can feed a list generated by Sets into Ngrams. Thanks! (And a pony too.)
• ntoshev 16y ago
  Google trends for books?
• srean 16y ago
  The first thing I tried out was different 3-grams of "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". Here are the results http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Colorless+green+ideas%2Ccolorless+green+ideas%2C+green+ideas+sleep%2C+ideas+sleep+furiously%2CColorless+green+ideas+sleep+furiously&year_start=1920&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Colorless+green+i... The correlation patterns and the year where the curve picks up are interesting. It would be illuminating to map the peaks.
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• nl 16y ago
  I love the "whale fail" image you get if you have an error: http://imgur.com/qCDCj http://imgur.com/qCDCj
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• boredguy8 16y ago
  quick brown fox, brown fox, slow brown fox http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=quick+brown+fox,brown+fox,+slow+brown+fox&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=5 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=quick+brown+fox,b... Am I reading that correctly: People rarely talk about brown foxes without mentioning their speed, which is never slow? More importantly: if I wrote and published a book about a slow brown fox, could I potentially do to foxes what Chomsky did to green ideas?
  • boredguy8 16y ago
    wizard,magician,Harry Potter http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=wizard,magician,Harry+Potter&year_start=1920&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=6 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=wizard,magician,H...
• jpwagner 16y ago
  http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=do+it+all+by+yourself,outsource+it&year_start=1920&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=do+it+all+by+your...
  • jpwagner 16y ago
    http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=can+you+help+me,let+me+help+you&year_start=1920&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=can+you+help+me,l...
• hanibash 16y ago
  Someone please explain why "I love you" is cyclical??? http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=i+love+you&year_start=1920&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=i+love+you&ye...
  • nl 16y ago
    If you remove the smoothing it looks more spiky then cyclical: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=i+love+you&year_start=1920&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=0 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=i+love+you&ye... It's possible that's more to do with the distribution of books Google has scanned than anything.
    • nl 16y ago
      WTF? Why the downvote!?
  • jpwagner 16y ago
    wars and birthrates
• jjclarkson 16y ago
  I think overuse of the word "cool" might finally be heading downward. And it's interesting to see the blips in the 70's and 80's of "groovy" and "rad" respectively. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=cool%2Chip%2Cgroovy%2Crad%2C+neat&year_start=1920&year_end=2008&corpus=5&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=cool%2Chip%2Cgroo...
• nl 16y ago
  Most interesting I've seen so far: Wall Street vs Silicon Valley: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=wall+street,silicon+valley&year_start=1900&year_end=2010&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=wall+street,silic... Telephone, Internet: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=telephone,+internet&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=1 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=telephone,+intern... Microsoft, Netscape, Yahoo, Google, Facebook: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Microsoft,Netscape,Yahoo,Google,Facebook&year_start=1970&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=1 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Microsoft,Netscap... Great War, Hitler, Communist, September+11: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Great+War,Hitler,Communist,September+11&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=1 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Great+War,Hitler,...
  • ovi256 16y ago
    What are those weird cycles in the Wall Street data ? Is that in any way related to the bubble/retraction cycle ?
    • nl 16y ago
      Here's US GDP growth: http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=us+gdp+growth http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=ny_gdp_mk... This could be a better chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_growth_1923-2009.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_growth_1923-2009.jpg There might be some kind of relationship there, but I don't think it's the whole explanation.
  • zacharypinter 16y ago
    Another fun one: terrorism,socialism,communism: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=terrorism%2Csocialism%2Ccommunism&year_start=1920&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=terrorism%2Csocia...
• nl 16y ago
  I love this. Here's the story of the world since 1750. The scientific revolution, followed by the industrial revolution, followed by the computer revolution, with the internet revolution just starting: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=science,industrial,computer,+internet&year_start=1750&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=science,industria...
• boredguy8 16y ago
  The "long s" causes problems with OCR and may be an easy-ish fix, if someone from Google were to take a look. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fame,same&year_start=1750&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fame,same&yea... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
• msbmsb 16y ago
  Country names/adjectives: English,England,British,French,France,German,Germany In most cases the adjectival form of a country tracks pretty closely to the nominal form (e.g. France vs French and others) except for the case of England vs English/British, the latter two spike from almost nothing around 1795. I can't think of a good explanation for why those two forms were so rare in comparison with "England" before 1795, anyone have an idea? http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=English%2CEngland%2CBritish%2CFrench%2CFrance%2CGerman%2CGermany&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=English%2CEngland...
• yoak 16y ago
  Using American English throughout: inflammable, flammable: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=inflammable%2Cflammable&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=5&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=inflammable%2Cfla... regardless, irregardless: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=inflammable%2Cflammable&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=5&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=inflammable%2Cfla...