From: "ronkean at juno.com" <ronkean at juno.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:39:12 GMT
To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Fw: new google literature tool
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In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html

By PATRICIA COHEN

With little fanfare, Google has made a mammoth database culled from
nearly 5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free
downloads and online searches, opening a new landscape of
possibilities for research and education in the humanities.

The digital storehouse, which comprises words and short phrases as
well as a year-by-year count of how often they appear, represents
the first time a data set of this magnitude and searching tools are
at the disposal of Ph.D.'s, middle school students and anyone else
who likes to spend time in front of a small screen. It consists of
the 500 billion words contained in books published between 1500 and
2008 in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Russian.

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