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 ...

One of the unsung heroes of Google’s bevy of reference tools is the Google Books Ngram Viewer. As Google has scanned millions of dead-tree books, it’s indexed the terms referenced in them, and the ...

Indexing low-quality books may mean the language research tool Ngram will also get trash results. Indexing low-quality books may mean the language research tool Ngram will also get trash results. is a ...