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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This is pretty amazing: When you enter a word, phrase or even a punctuation mark into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how frequently those words or phrases have appeared in ...