Wolfram Alpha, a search engine that uses dynamic algorithms to return knowledge-based results rather than keyword-based results, announced today that it has uploaded the entirety of Shakespeare's works to the site's database, so users can search the Bard's canon for facts about the texts.

The fully-searchable breakdown of various measurements of the plays and poems reveal details that would have otherwise been extremely tedious for humans to discover. For example, a search of The Tragedy of King Lear reveals that the average word length of the play is 4.09 characters, and that it contains 3177 unique word stems. Macbeth, on the other hand, was written 15 years later and its average word length is 4.26 characters and the play contains 2811 unique word stems. The most common two word phrases in King Lear are rather common subject-verb combinations, whereas one of the most common two-word phrases in Macbeth is "Enter Macbeth."

Wolfram Alpha's breakdown also includes dialog timelines that show when the characters speak throughout the play, so that correlations can be drawn that way as well. According to the site, Moby Dick, Great Expectations, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and other novels are available for similar analysis.