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 ...

Back in December 2010, Google unveiled an online tool for analyzing the history of language and culture as reflected in the gargantuan corpus of historical texts that have been scanned and digitized ...