Tag: Google
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Google Books Ngram Viewer
Google does some interesting things. Ngram Viewer which I found about just today is one such. To know what the Ngram viewer does, we first need to know what an Ngram is. Well, according to Wikipedia, an Ngram is “a subsequence of n items from a given sequence.” If you just wanted to know how…
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Google Was Topeka For A Day
Yesterday, millions of people opened the Google website to notice that the logo on top of the site now said “Topeka”, instead of “Google”. If you were not in Kansas, there was a good chance you had no idea what Topeka even meant. Sure enough, the blurb below the search buttons said: “Not in Kansas,…
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Verb "Googled" Not in Google's Spellchecker
It has been several years since the verb “to google” was added to the English dictionary. According to Wikipedia, It was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006, and to the eleventh edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in July 2006. However, Gmail’s own spellchecker shows the word “googled” as a…