Google is the most popular search engine.And do you know how google got their name?
In 1997 what we now know as Google was called Backrub. They decided to change the name to Googol (A googol is very large number: 10^100 to be exact) but when they registered the domain they typed Google! The rest is history.
Google is a large tech company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Their primary product is the world’s most popular search engine. You can access the Google search engine by typing in “google.com.”
Ha! You didn’t REALLY think I was going to be defining Google, did you?
No, I trust that you have been on the Internet once or twice in the past decade and are aware of the Google.
What I wanted to talk about today is how Google got its name. You know, that silly made up word that has now taken its rightful place in the Oxford English Dictionary, right after goog (Australian slang for an egg).
Turns out that Google is a misspelling of a real-life mathematical term, googol.
Back sometime in the late 90’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin were two graduate students at Stanford. They had been working on a search engine and had given it the name BackRub. You know, because their search engine searched through backlinks…right.
Fortunately, they were smart enough to realize that BackRub was the worst tech company name in the history of tech companies, and that they needed to find something a little more appropriate.
During yet another name brainstorming session, their friend Sean, a fellow graduate student, suggested the word googolplex.
Googol is the term used by mathematician to reference 10 to the power of hundred.
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