Google Ngram monitors the popularity of 500 billion words

Without much pomp, Google announced a massive database that serves equally well as a tool for pupils, students and scholars as well as fun and games.

The new digital service or digital warehouse called the Ngram and contains 500 billion words collected from 5.2 million books were issued in the period between the 1500th and 2008. in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese languages.

Anyone can now search for words and short phrases and display them in a chart that shows how these words used over time. For example, just a few mouse clicks needed to find out how the women (woman) overtaken men (men) in mid 1980-ies, as well as in 2004. The "Grill" (Grill) has become more popular term than "fry (fry).

Scientists at Harvard University have teamed up with Googel to create this unique search tool, The New York Times.

"We wanted to show what becomes possible when you use a very powerful turbines for analysis on issues related to the humanities, " said one scientist, who is this method called "culturomics."

Among the discoveries made possible this new method, which were published in the journal Science, is the fact that the names of stars, or "celebrities" faded twice as fast as the middle of 1900-than it is in the early 1800-those years and even 66 years necessary technology to be widely adopted in the early 1800-those years, whereas it is the 1880th it only takes 27 years.

Equally interesting is usprediti terms: internet, newspapers, magazines or phone, computer, and you yourself are engaging in research at: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/