{"id":13241,"date":"2015-09-05T16:43:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T15:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=13241"},"modified":"2015-09-05T16:43:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T15:43:35","slug":"google-books-corpora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2015\/09\/05\/google-books-corpora\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Books corpora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googlebooks.byu.edu\/\">Google Books corpora<\/a>, an alternative search interface for Google Books&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This new interface for Google Books allows you to search more than 200 billion words [though it is] not an official product of Google or Google Books. Rather it was created by Mark Davies, Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Google <em>link:<\/em> search suggests it&#8217;s had some notice from the field of linguistics, but not from outside.  For non-linguists the tool seems to serve as a rather useful way of quickly bouncing a Google Books search through to a specific decade, without spending a minute fiddling around with the custom range date fields in the small Google Books date drop-down box.  The tool may be especially useful for those who need to do this sort of Google Books search many times for many different decades.<\/p>\n<p>As a test I looked for the phrase &#8220;a whit&#8221; (as in &#8220;not a whit of it&#8221; and &#8220;He had not changed a whit&#8221;), and then clicked on the link to occurrences from the period 1900-1910. I was taken to the book results on Google Books, and saw that the custom date range was automatically constrained to 1 Jan 1900 &#8211; 31 Dec 1909.  There was some confusion by Google with &#8220;a Whit-sunday&#8221;, but finessing the search terms would have probably fixed that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2015\/09\/ngrams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2015\/09\/ngrams.jpg\" alt=\"ngrams\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2015\/09\/gbresults.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2015\/09\/gbresults.jpg\" alt=\"gbresults\" width=\"500\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2015\/09\/whitgb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2015\/09\/whitgb.jpg\" alt=\"whitgb\" width=\"500\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Books corpora, an alternative search interface for Google Books&#8230; This new interface for Google Books allows you to search &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2015\/09\/05\/google-books-corpora\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurns-google-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}