21st Aug 2008
“Rarest Synonyms” or auto-related words magic
I was quiet for some time now. Actually, I was on vacation in a middle of nowhere, without TV, radio or Internet. Let me tell you something - those who tell you “Russia has two problems - idiots and roads” are wrong about the roads. I drove nearly 1000 miles and the worst problem was local road police extortion, not the roads 
Okay, enough chit-chat, let’s get back to business!
Ever thought of words that are close / almost synonymous to “ufos“?
Me neither, but still: ufos, alien, aliens, extraterrestrials, sedition, strange, ghosts, foreigners, predator, crop, extra, ufo, robots, colors, strangers, spooks, monsters, animals, weird, dead, …. Ok, that wasn’t really tought.
How about synonymous words for “TechCrunch“? Easy! Techcrunch, mashable, techmeme, slashdot, digg, engadget, correct, cnet, com, readwriteweb, gigaom, perezhilton.
Magic? No way, you can do it too now. New feature added to TheRarestWords - just go to the word page, as in http://therarestwords.com/word/apple and see for yourself.
If you want to know the technical details of how it’s done - take 3-grams (like from the wikipedia n-grams I released) and search for “red and blue“, “techcrunch or gigaom“, etc. See? Easy!
No, I didn’t use wikipedia’s n-grams, I used much broader sample from the pages all around the Internet with phrases detection and some more of smart stuff, but even if you parse the Wikipedia’s n-grams - you’d still get pretty good results (although, no synonyms for “TechCrunch” and other rare words).
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