Whilst it does look like you're right about 2004, does anyone really use the phrase "hailed a success"?
I would have thought the more conventional phrase is "hailed as a success".
Which also peaked in 2004.
Interestingly "hailed as success" indicates a massive dip in 2004.
There you go.
Jon Bounds
· 4 months ago
I think you tend to lose the "as" in headlines. This is a combined search that dos indeed suggest that the world has steadily got less successful since 2004: http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22haile...
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I would have thought the more conventional phrase is "hailed as a success".
Which also peaked in 2004.
Interestingly "hailed as success" indicates a massive dip in 2004.
There you go.