artifact vs merchandise

artifact

noun
  • Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element. 

  • An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation. 

  • Any object in the collection of a museum. May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made. 

  • A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or a digital image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm. 

  • An appearance or structure in protoplasm due to death, the method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life. 

  • An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin. 

  • A finding or structure in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error. 

  • An object made or shaped by human hand or labor. 

merchandise

noun
  • Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale. 

  • Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.) 

verb
  • To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of. 

  • To promote as if for sale. 

  • To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods. 

How often have the words artifact and merchandise occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )