Re: Googling
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 9, 2001, 14:16 |
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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.
Yes, tis. The guy who named it did so after some word his daughter said
(presumably 'googol'), I believe.
> PS According to my (more or less serious) theory, Google is a
> contraction of
> "go ogle" ...
I read somewhere that 'google' comes from 'googol' - the engine should come
up with googols of hits - and was respelt to make it look English. I'm sure
it was at their website, but I can't seem to find it again.
Tristan
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