{"id":23479,"date":"2010-12-17T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/google_book_tool_tracks_cultural_change_with_words\/"},"modified":"2010-12-17T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T16:00:22","slug":"google_book_tool_tracks_cultural_change_with_words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23479","title":{"rendered":"Google Book Tool Tracks Cultural Change With Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the biggest collection of words ever assembled has just gone online: 500 billion of them, from 5 million books published over the past four centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The words make up a searchable database that researchers at Harvard say is a new and powerful tool to study cultural change.<\/p>\n<p>The words are a product of Google&#8217;s book-scanning project. The company has converted approximately 15 million books so far into electronic documents. That&#8217;s about 15 percent of all books ever published. It includes books published in English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Russian and Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2010\/12\/16\/132106374\/google-book-tool-tracks-cultural-change-with-words\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the biggest collection of words ever assembled has just gone online: 500 billion of them, from 5 million books published over the past four centuries. The words make up a searchable database that researchers at Harvard say is a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23479\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,94,92,119,133,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-blogging-the-internet","category-books","category-globalization","category-history","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}