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"Britannica" can reference to other things than said encyclopaedia. This gives a different picture.

Here's my list of fun ones:

mechanical vs electronic vs electric vs magnetic vs hydraulic vs pneumatic

library vs internet

Books before 1905 with "Internet" in them

book vs computer

horse vs carriage vs car vs aircraft (notice the "noise level" for car in the mid-1800s and earlier)

terrorism and terrorist (change start to 1900 for a closer view)

Here's my list of fun ones:

mechanical vs electronic vs electric vs magnetic vs hydraulic vs pneumatic

library vs internet

Books before 1905 with "Internet" in them

book vs computer

horse vs carriage vs car vs aircraft (notice the "noise level" for car in the mid-1800s and earlier)

terrorism and terrorist (change start to 1900 for a closer view)

Here's my list of fun ones:

mechanical vs electronic vs electric vs magnetic vs hydraulic vs pneumatic

library vs internet

Books before 1905 with "Internet" in them

book vs computer

horse vs carriage vs car vs aircraft (notice the "noise level" for car in the mid-1800s and earlier)

terrorism and terrorist (change start to 1900 for a closer view)

Here's my list of fun ones:

mechanical vs electronic vs electric vs magnetic vs hydraulic vs pneumatic

library vs internet

Books before 1905 with "Internet" in them

book vs computer

horse vs carriage vs car vs aircraft (notice the "noise level" for car in the mid-1800s and earlier)

terrorism and terrorist (change start to 1900 for a closer view)

Here's my list of fun ones:

mechanical vs electronic vs electric vs magnetic vs hydraulic vs pneumatic

library vs internet

Books before 1905 with "Internet" in them

book vs computer

horse vs carriage vs car vs aircraft (notice the "noise level" for car in the mid-1800s and earlier)

terrorism and terrorist (change start to 1900 for a closer view)

Well, I guess that solves that.

This comparison may (or may not) give interesting insights into the rise of influence of the US (or at least American vs British English).

I don't know how this was missed earlier, but:
    http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=sharks,lasers&year_start=1770&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

I wonder why the (ever so slight) drop of "euphemism" near the present bothers me...

So what's with the downturn in the last 10 -20 years here?

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=physics%2Cchemistry%2Cbiology%2Cmathematics&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=6

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=communism%2Cterrorism&year_start=1920&year_end=2010&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Ok, I must not know something about the phrase war pigs

This is more concerning:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=pirates%2Cglobal+warming&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

More pirates should mean less warming!

Perhaps if you used the correct bigrams instead of uncommon contractions of them.

Perhaps if you used the correct bigrams instead of uncommon contractions of them.

Freedom has always been popular, but since the early 19th c. it's gone much better with "democracy" than with "republic".

Maybe so, maybe so. All is know is that 1720 was a really bad year.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=anonymous+coward&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Also, everything is a crisis nowadays!

War is pretty straightforward...

The graph of George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" is interesting as well. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=ass%2Cballs%2Ccocksucker%2Ccunt%2Cfuck%2Cmotherfucker%2Cpiss%2Cshit%2Ctits&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

suddenly you'll see that no one has ever written about wikileaks! Check it out here

It appears that we have dodged a bullet: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=global+temperature&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 We're on the other side of the hockey stick.

Bing, more popular than Google for 200 years:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=google%2Cbing&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Eh? I'll take burgled over burglarize.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=never+gonna+give+you+up&year_start=&year_end=&corpus=5&smoothing=0

My first search was between demon and epilepsy.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=demon%2Cepilepsy&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

The dip in the 30s was quite interesting to me.

You should try republic vs tyranny. Some odd correlation there.

Apparently someone at google labs is a fan of the whole "pirates prevent global warming" joke: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=pirates%2Cninjas&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

And vampires have always bested zombies.

References to forms of national leadership are interesting. A nice peak for the reign of the Virgin Queen, the appearance and growth of President in line with the upstart of those bloody colonies in North America, President finally tops King just about the time of the Great War, but King reasserts until the Second World War finally pushes President on top. Interestingly enough, King comes back and surpasses President just about the turn of the Millennium. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=King,President,Queen&year_start=1500&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Oh oh, according to this graph, we're being overrun by vampires, and the slayers are dropping like flies :(

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Pepsi%2C+Coca+Cola&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=0 At last, we can declare a winner. It's Pepsi, by far!

Perhaps a narrower focus?

Perhaps a narrower focus?

Yahoo had an early lead and blew it, but has made a comeback!
Google Vs Yahoo

"the" vs "of" is also exciting......I will be following this contest for the rest of my life.
The vs Of

Is another worth more common than "the"?

Yahoo had an early lead and blew it, but has made a comeback!
Google Vs Yahoo

"the" vs "of" is also exciting......I will be following this contest for the rest of my life.
The vs Of

Is another worth more common than "the"?

I don't know about the two encyclopediae, but so far my favorite is republic vs democracy.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=LSD,Alcohol,Marijuana&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

thought this was more interesting than the summary's example:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=peace%2C+love%2C+understanding&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Not until 1960s was this great word brought back into the lexicon of the common man.

Oddly enough, email was a pretty popular word from up until the 1960's, peaking in popularity in the 1860's, but has made a comeback since the mid 1990's!

I mean, how good can they be if they don't even get THIS right?!

On the other hand, they seem to have pegged this one!

I mean, how good can they be if they don't even get THIS right?!

On the other hand, they seem to have pegged this one!

That is very, very odd. It appears to be in 1899:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=slashdot&year_start=1800&year_end=1960&corpus=0&smoothing=0

but a further search turns up zero results. If it were a OCR-o, it should at least show up.

There is another hit, labeled 1963:

http://books.google.com/books?id=x-O2AAAAIAAJ&q=%22slashdot%22&dq=%22slashdot%22&hl=en&ei=9bwLTaTADoet8Abf1qT7DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAA

but it's a badly mis-dated issue of The Economist. Not sure why it's the only one.

Awesome tool! These two are quite cool:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=doctor%2Clawyer%2Carchitect%2Csoldier%2Cpoliceman%2Cdog+walker&year_start=1500&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=peace%2Cwar%2Cmoney&year_start=1500&year_end=2000&corpus=5&smoothing=3

Awesome tool! These two are quite cool:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=doctor%2Clawyer%2Carchitect%2Csoldier%2Cpoliceman%2Cdog+walker&year_start=1500&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=peace%2Cwar%2Cmoney&year_start=1500&year_end=2000&corpus=5&smoothing=3

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=yahoo&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=2
Yahoo was also very popular back in the early 1800's and fell our of favor just the same.

From Google's "about" page for their Books Ngram Viewer lab: "Why does the word 'Internet" occur before 1950?"

Hmmm... So Britannica still on top?

But this link (is with smoothing=0) gives a different result:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Britannica%2CWikipedia&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=0

Not that I know whether smoothing=0 is better or worse then smoothing=3

Kind regards,

Roel