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    10 Interesting Word Searches On Google Books

    60 years of "hipsters".

    Google NGram is a cool feature that lets you search the amount of times a certain word or phrase appears in over 5 million books.

    It instantly searches these books as far back as the 1500's and graphs their amount of usage over time. Sometimes this yields interesting results; such as words that come and go into language with different meanings.

    1. "hipster"

    2. "cocaine"

    3. "Seattle"

    4. "cowboys"

    5. "Disco"

    6. "gay"

    7. "web"

    8. "bomb"

    9. "Hawaii"

    10. "comedy"