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Originally posted by jonesy@Apr 1 2005, 02:30 PM
Don't know if this is common knowledge, but I recently figured out that google stands for Go Ogle.
I couldn't help but think of that commercial for a laptop where some fella was caught ogling.
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"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 one hundred zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the Web."