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Google Tool Explores 'Genome' Of English Words

First Posted: 12/16/10 04:23 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:20 PM ET

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These are just some of the questions that researchers and members of the public can now answer using a new online tool called the "Cultural Observatory" developed by Google with the help of scientists at Harvard University. The massive searchable database is being hailed as the key to a new era of research in the humanities, linguistics and social sciences that has been dubbed "culturomics".

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These are just some of the questions that researchers and members of the public can now answer using a new online tool called the "Cultural Observatory" developed by Google with the help of scientists...
These are just some of the questions that researchers and members of the public can now answer using a new online tool called the "Cultural Observatory" developed by Google with the help of scientists...
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