17.12.10

Search 500 Billion Words for Trends

A colleague sent this fascinating link over that represents Google's entry of more than 500 billion words from books published as early as 1500. You can enter a word and see the frequency of use over time. I ran this one on "complexity" and the term appears to have risen along with the increased pace of life and culture.




You can visit here to see it live and to try out your own words or word combinations. It's interesting to see what words like "horse" or "satchel" or "Facebook" look like when you run the query.

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