capnq said:
That is a statistical analysis of how many times each word appears in a large body of English language texts.
I worked with a similar database at my last job, working for a professor researching computer recognition of speech.
Yeah but ... why post it on the web, and why is Google indexing it? Yeah, I know, ... Why not? and Because are options. Still weird 'tho.
Check out this Fark link (remember, Fark webpage has naughty adverts):
{The world generated 161 exabytes of digital information last year. That's 161 billion gigabytes}
Scroll down for an interesting breakdown of examples of really big numbers, we once had a thread on this subject here on Shrapnel.