Hi Tony,<br><br>while this is not particularly an answer to your question,<br>I would recommend reading through a discussion held on<br>this list last year:<br><a href="http://torvald.aksis.uib.no/corpora/2005-1/0191.html">
http://torvald.aksis.uib.no/corpora/2005-1/0191.html</a><br>and the follow up:<br><a href="http://torvald.aksis.uib.no/corpora/2005-1/0562.html">http://torvald.aksis.uib.no/corpora/2005-1/0562.html</a><br><br>The Google dataset however might be very helpful.
<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tony Berber Sardinha</b> <<a href="mailto:tony4@uol.com.br">tony4@uol.com.br</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear all, does anyone know of ways to estimate the frequency of words<br>on the web, or if there're search engines that supply this info (as<br>Altavista used to do)?<br><br>thank you!<br>tony<br><a href="http://www2.lael.pucsp.br/~tony">
www2.lael.pucsp.br/~tony</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alexander Schutz<br>Digital Enterprise Research Institute,<br>Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh<br>Galway, Ireland