I learned about this new interesting tool from the following video:
We can access this tool here.
So this TED video explains to us this new google application that allows you to search up a word. This isn’t just any normal search though, it searches through 5 million of the booked that google has scanned and analyzed. Google has scanned a total of 15 million books, woah maybe I can be a professional book scanner for my career. Google sure is helping the world and it's history become more modernized. By searching this word it will tell you how often it is seen in a particular time period and how popular it is or was. Unfortunately, I searched my name and I'm not very known.
The two demonstrators poke fun of this device by saying people didn’t start talking about a particular year until it was the year. They said that people didn’t know that would actually come. I think these people are very using weird examples. I don’t know what this device would be used for except for the curiosity of a bored factual person. It would be interesting when certain trends were started but they have no actual use to my life currently.
When I looked up tennis, I saw a peak in the year 1940. Then I thought to myself, is this actually really accurate to measure trends. If tennis is 1% of the words in 1940 and tennis becomes 1% in 2020, then it is not the same. The population of the world has increased maybe by double. So the times this word was used would be a lot more in 2020 than 1940. Maybe I am wrong about something but that is my thought about this tool.
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