Very nice! It is even more interesting to compare this with the British one:

It seems to me that British has not yet give up the concept of freedom for the sake of security yet!

I have also tried with the Chinese characters of freedom vs security as below:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=%E5%AE%89%E5%85%A8%2C%E8%87%AA%E7...

It is such a pity that there is no separate version for traditional Chinese whose major population are in Taiwan and Hong Kong where the political and media institutions their enjoy a much higher level of freedom.

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:57 PM, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:

Look at this one ; ) http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=security%2Cfreedom&year_start...

2010/12/17 Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com

I was just playing with this... remarkable. Someone should do the

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same with Wikipedia's text over time, which would provide even crisper comparisons [as within categories].

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=art,technology,www&year_start...

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:28 PM, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi all;

I leave this link here... http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets

An example

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=collaborative&year_start=1920...

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Regards, emijrp

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