Re: Googling
| From: | Dennis Paul Himes <dennis@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 9, 2001, 1:54 |
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"Aidan Grey" <frterminus@...>
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> I find the speed with which Google has become a verb
> fascinating. ...
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> I wonder if it arose because yahoo, alta vista,
> excite, and so on, already had meanings.
Google also already had a meaning. It's a number, equal to 10^100
(that's ten to the hundredth power).
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