Jean-Baptiste Michel + Erez Lieberman Aiden: What we learned from 5 million books | Talk Video | TED.comHave you played with Google Labs’ Ngram Viewer? It’s an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words. (Filmed at TEDxBoston.)
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When I am reading my e-books I always get facsinated in the highlighted notes that shows howmany people have underlined the same passage that I did. It might be a facinination with me but with Google and Amazon and other main players it is research.
I can guarantee there are a millions reasons they are interested in what the population is reading. So I found this TED Talk quite interesting in learning why the main players are reading. They have researched 500 billion words. Just wonder if your book could be one of them.
I found this humorous and informative. It’s worth listening to.