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Google Ngram Database Tracks Popularity Of 500 Billion Words

First Posted: 12/17/10 09:47 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:20 PM ET

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Google has quietly released a massive database that's as scholarly a tool as it is fun to play with. Called Ngram, this digital storehouse contains 500 billion words from 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008 in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Chinese.

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Google has quietly released a massive database that's as scholarly a tool as it is fun to play with. Called Ngram, this digital storehouse contains 500 billion words from 5.2 million books published b...
Google has quietly released a massive database that's as scholarly a tool as it is fun to play with. Called Ngram, this digital storehouse contains 500 billion words from 5.2 million books published b...
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lilylee86
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01:36 AM on 12/21/2010
That is great..
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P51MUSTANG
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09:01 PM on 12/18/2010
I had some fun with this app looking up dirty words, seeing what the prevalence over history was for alternative words for the same anatomical features.

Suddenly I realized....it's also a name for a rooster.
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12:39 PM on 12/18/2010
Are they also releasing Hnkygram?
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Master-T
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11:37 PM on 12/17/2010
Another Google app released? What's that, like the fifth one this week?

LOL. The most unfocused company in tech history continues to flail about. Read the new economist which notes that Google could be the next Microsoft, sooner than we think.
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AllyCat7
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01:55 AM on 12/18/2010
They have a focus. It's to organize all of the world's data. It's a cumbersome focus, but a focus nonetheless ;)
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crankyCrackPot
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10:51 AM on 12/18/2010
They may be flailing but they'll have cars that drive themselves on the market sooner than you think, they will get an ocean windfarm going, they have apps with solid business or academic uses and apps that are just great to use.
As an IT manager I can tell you that when it comes time to replace my Exchange server I'm going with Google's Webmail.
Not commenting on the "evils" this company has been accused of but I can't help but get the feeling that we haven't seen anything from them yet.
Even their core algorithms are being applied to all kinds of problems that you'd never imagine.
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rmaenza
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10:47 PM on 12/17/2010
They need to stick to their search engine issues and leave the other stuff alone.
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curiousasheck
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05:13 PM on 12/17/2010
Nice. Google does it again. Facebook can't even upgrade their system without crashing it so they got a way to go to be in Goggles league. A long ways.
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