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All Things Not Being Evil

In the wake of Google Books finally launching this week, Google released a new tool called the Ngram Viewer, a la Google Insights, that allows you to see how frequently certain words have been used in Google’s library over time.

 

… and the Gawker blog Jezebel already went through the trouble of using it to track the usage of pimp versus ho, penis versus vagina, etcetera, revealing centuries of gender bias.

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