Re: Googling
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 9, 2001, 12:53 |
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Dennis Paul Himes wrote:
>"Aidan Grey" <frterminus@...>
> >
> > I find the speed with which Google has become a verb
> > fascinating. ...
> >
> > 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).
Isn't that spelt "googol"? It's in Swedish, at any rate.
Andreas
PS According to my (more or less serious) theory, Google is a contraction of
"go ogle" ...
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