FYI: Google's ngram viewer

[Kerim Friedman]

And some good discussion here:

http://goo.gl/en64C

The cultural genome: Google Books reveals traces of fame, censorship
and changing languages

kerim

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Adam Hodges <adamhodges at cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture
> By PATRICIA COHEN
> New York Times
> December 16, 2010
>
> With little fanfare, Google has made a mammoth database culled from
> nearly 5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free
> downloads and online searches, opening a new landscape of
> possibilities for research and education in the humanities.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html?hp
>
> Google's ngram viewer:  http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

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P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩

Assistant Professor
Department of Indigenous Cultures
College of Indigenous Studies
National DongHwa University, TAIWAN
助理教授國立東華大學民族文化學系