This is incredibly cool — Google Ngram

I love learning. I think many people do. But there are simply too many books, too many words, too much. Fortunately, Google has, perhaps, one of the most genius things ever: Google Ngram. This nifty gadget allows you to set parameters for dates and languages and then type the words you'd like compared. You can then click on the dates at the bottom of the page to look at Google books with those words.

Here's a nifty video explaining how this will change how we research.



And here are some examples of what I've done...