Google Books Ngram Viewer Graphs Use of Words In Books Over Time

Google Books Ngram Viewer

Google has launched Books Ngram Viewer, where you can enter words or phrases and it will output a graph showing how they have been used in books over a period of time. For example, here’s Squid vs. Octopus from 1800-2000.

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