New from Google Labs, the ability to plot the usage of words or phrases in Google's huge and growing scanned corpora of text. Easy to use and simple to apply to understand the changes in the uses of words over time. In ten different languages. The Google Labs article is here. Includes a link to technical articles on its development. Also an article that covers this is as well in ReadWriteWeb. A boon for those studying the use of language. Reminiscent of the Baby name tool, but much more broadly applicable.
Update: Also mentioned in a WSJ article.
Update: Much more on the trending tool, including anomalies, errors, etc. See the link there to Language Log article, which takes it several steps deeper.
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