'Information" is more common now

My son identified this paragraph from an article in the New York Times as interesting:

The use of the word “information” itself certainly seems to have exploded since its earliest recorded appearance in 1387. (“Fyve bookes com doun from heven for informacioun of mankynde.”) As Michael Proffitt, the managing editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, notes in an essay written for the recent relaunch of the O.E.D.’s digital edition, “information” is the 486th most frequently occurring word in Project Gutenberg’s searchable corpus of mostly pre-1900 literature. A 1967 survey of contemporary American English ranked it 346th. And the rise of digital technology seems only to have speeded its ascent. One recent survey of online usage lists “information” as the 22nd most common word.

A piece by Michael Proffitt, the Managing Director of the Oxford English Dictionary, points out that the meaning of the word has changed over time, and that it appears more and more frequently paired with other words implying still different meanings.

I did a couple of graphs using Google Ngram Viewer (note the scales are different):