It’s how Google has “read” the 5 million books that the Ngram Viewer lets you search against. OCR isn’t perfect. Sometimes words aren’t recognized correctly.

When the Google project team (Jon Orwant, Slav Petrov, and Dipanjan Das) gave me a sneak peek at the new version of the Ngram Viewer, I had no shortage of wildcard searches to test out.

The Google Books Ngram Viewer, a tool that shows you how often phrases occur in books over time, now shows data through 2019. In short, this tool displays a graph showing how those phrases have ...

When I first heard about Google’s new Ngram viewer, I ... 5.2 million-strong book collection on Google Books. ... with which we’ve referred to “global thermonuclear war” and “red ...

Google Dec. 16 launched Google Books Ngram Viewer, a data visualization tool that crawls 500 billion words culled from 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008 that Google has indexed in ...

But when Google’s Ngram Viewer launched in 2010, it transformed that Everest-level word exploration into a seconds-long bunny hill search—and illecebrous, captivating graphs.Using data from ...

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.

Google’s latest data-visualization tool, Ngram Viewer, allows the curious to search through datasets of 500 billion words from 5.2 million books in Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and ...

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 books, 450 million words—suddenly accessible with just ...

In a Google Research Blog Post, Google Engineering Manager and Ngram Viewer co-creator, John Orwant, says that version 2.0 is using a new dataset with material from more books.

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 has just put online perhaps the greatest timewaster in the history of the internet. For a certain kind of person, that is. Which I know many of you are. It’s the Ngram Viewer, which lets ...