So, earlier in history Google unveiled a new trending tool. But we have already seen this one, you say. No, no, silly one. That was for the Internetz. This one is for the bookz. Yep, using their newly released catalog of ebooks, they trended every word and phrase for the last 90 years or so.
Why should we care about this? Well, this will help people who care about how ideas are exchanged and move through our society care even more about that. What it will help crazy people do is create more crazy theories. Like my idea about the correlation of the popularity of cheese, pirates, and bears. Yep. Confirmed!
Books Ngram Viewer
Here's a real article about it