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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Googol or Google?

A googol- a term coined in 1938 by nine year old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner- is used to describe the large number, that is , the digit 1 followed by a hundred zeroes. The search engine Google was named after this number. The original founders were going for 'Googol' but ended up with 'Google' due to spelling mistake. Ultimately, this was good, because google.com was available and googol.com was not.

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