The paper is organized into five sections. Section 2 gives an overview of Hascheck as a tool for big data
collection, and some characteristics of its traffic. The n-gram system creation and maintenance, with an insight into
system’s main properties, and its comparison with the biggest Google systems, is described in Section 3. Section 4 is
devoted to rapid breakthroughs in several new NLP application areas, which became feasible because of the n-gram
system existence. Finally, Section 5 contains our concluding remarks.