OT origin of Google

[Paul Johnson]

Just struck me ... is the origin of the name Google made from GO OGLE?
Paul

 

[casioculture]

Just struck me ... is the origin of the name Google made from GO OGLE?
Paul

http://tinyurl.com/87m3o

 

[badgolferman]

casioculture, 4/20/2005, 11:05:25 AM,

http://tinyurl.com/87m3o

I don't know who that is, but those pictures are a good example of
sexiness not requiring nudity.

 

[Lew/+Silat]

In badgolferman <[email protected]> rubs the lotion on it's skin
or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told to type the
following:

casioculture, 4/20/2005, 11:05:25 AM,

I don't know who that is, but those pictures are a good example of
sexiness not requiring nudity.

Leonor Varela
http://www.blade2.com/

 

[XemonerdX]

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html

 

[gonzo]

Just struck me ... is the origin of the name Google made from GO OGLE?
Paul

I thought it was a play on words, referring to googol.
Wait, I was right......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

 

[Slarty]

I thought it was a play on words, referring to googol.
Wait, I was right......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

Much, much older than any explanation given here so far.

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/bgoogle/about.htm

Cheers,

Roy

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BBQ=AB?=]

Much, much older than any explanation given here so far.

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/bgoogle/about.htm

The comic strip was not the reason they chose that name. Their own
pages explain it as a play on "googol", but apparently it was an
inadvertent play, i.e. a misspelling.

<http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html>

<http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html>

But maybe exposure to the comic strip was what caused him to misspell
it.

 

[Frank Bohan]

Just struck me ... is the origin of the name Google made from GO OGLE?
Paul

The name "Google" is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton
Sirotta, nephew of U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner in 1938, to refer to the
number represented by 1 followed by a hundred zeros. Google's use of the
term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of
information available on the Web.

Found at: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Google+Inc. where you
will find a comprehensive article about Google.

===

Frank Bohan
¶ Stock Exchange Mining equipment hit rock bottom.

 

[Box134]

Obviously, the name comes from Russian novelist Nikolay (Vasilyevich) Gogol
(1809-1852), best-known for his novel Dead Souls. Gogol's prose is
characterized by imaginative power and linguistic playfulness. As an exposer
of the defects of human character, Gogol could be called the Bill Gates of
Russian literature.

 

[El Gee]

SNIP>

Gogol could be called the Bill Gates of Russian literature.


He writes bad literature that ends up almost everywhere?
Good idea, bad implementation?
Geeky guy that gives away millions of dollars to charity every year?
Do the words that he writes mysteriously cause the book to close
unexpectedly?

Sorry, just havin a bit of fun.

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