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Deduplication
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Bug used to mean an insect. Mouse, an animal. Token, a coin. Tech keeps borrowing words, and deduplication.tech measures which meaning is winning.
719 duplicated terms across 14 fields (AI, crypto, gaming, cloud and more). Each pair is scored with live Wikipedia pageviews: the original still owns it, it's contested, or the duplicate took over. Explore the word cloud, leaderboards and term pages.
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Every popular word eventually gets duplicated. Somebody names a product, a protocol or a meme after a word that already meant something, and now how has the meaning of the word changed? I wanted to visualize those battles of a term's meaning with data instead of opinion. Which meaning owns the word today? And how is its internet usage changing the meaning of the word over time? Starting with wikipedia page views, let’s see how we can estimate our collective digital understandings.
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wow, very nice product! do u double check any definition u post?
Scoring each borrowed word by which Wikipedia page actually gets the pageviews is a much better test than anybody's opinion, and I would love to see token in that list out of pure curiosity.
Using live Wikipedia pageviews as the verdict is a clever move — it's the one score nobody can argue with, because it measures what people actually look up. 'Token' is the perfect example for me: it used to mean a coin, and now in my day-to-day it almost always means an LLM unit. I'm curious which AI terms are sitting in the contested middle — I'd guess 'agent' is one of them, since it's half software, half everything else. Nice way to make a word cloud actually tell you something.