Where can i find huge amount of text files?

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Sri picture Sri · Feb 7, 2012 · Viewed 74.2k times · Source

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Looking for dataset to test FULLTEXT style searches on

I am recently on to a project of Data Mining, for which i need 100 GB of plain text for testing... I am tired of searching the net the whole day. Someone please help me out by providing the links where i can download such text files. Thanks.

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Jordan picture Jordan · Feb 7, 2012

What type of text are you searching for? Conversational, articles, books - or a good spread of everything?

Project Gutenberg might be a good start: http://www.gutenberg.org/

Wikipedia also allows you to download an archive of articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

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