Google Ngram for: ‘Sydney’ vs ‘Melbourne’
Posted: December 19, 2010 | Author: Alan Davies | Filed under: Miscellaneous | Tags: Melbourne, nGram, Sydney |
Melbourne almost rivalled Sydney circa 1890 – click to insert your own search terms. More on Ngram here.

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It’s interesting that when you go through the entries for ‘Sydney’, many of them have nothing to do with the city. Melbourne quite a bit less so.
Searching for ‘City of Sydney’ versus ‘City of Melbourne’ yields interesting results, as do ‘greater’ and ‘metropolitan’ prefixes.