Google Ngram Viewer is a tool that allows users to search for a word or phrase in Google's vast collection of digitized books and graph the results. A lot of what you find exploring Ngram is pretty ...

You may never get through all 500 billion words from more than 5 million books over five centuries. But you can find out, for instance, that "smartphone" is a lot older than you think. Lance Whitney ...

Google’s Ngram Viewer for Google Books, a tool that lets you see how the usage of specific words has increased and decreased over time, just got an update. The Ngram Viewer now draws upon a larger ...

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 ...

It's been nearly three years since Google rolled out its Ngram Viewer, allowing armchair historians to plot the trajectories of words and phrases over time based on an enormous corpus of data ...

Five years ago, Google unveiled a shiny new toy for nerds. The Google Ngram Viewer is seductively simple: Type in a word or phrase and out pops a chart tracking its popularity in books. Millions of ...

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 ...

There's an Ngram Challenge at the end of this post, so read to the end, people! (Or skip to the end, what do I care? I'm not proud.) Like a kid throwing eggs on Halloween, I'd like to lob a few of my ...