Thursday, August 5, 2010

How Google Got Its Name

Mis-spelling goggle is not how Google got its name. Misspelling was involved, however, the said misspelling was conceptually beyond most of us. Remember, these were Stanford graduate students. Not Michigan State University Comm Arts graduate students. Real peaches.

It was a misspelling of the term "googol," which is the number 10 raised to the 100th power. That is, 1 followed by 100 0's. Not goggles.

See Here, here, and here.

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