Google’s name has a secret: what is it?, As one of the most popular search engines in the world, Google has garnered a lot of attention and its unusual name is just now becoming known to many people.
A resurfaced post on Quora, the world’s most popular question and answer website, emerged with the question: “Is Google an acronym, or is it an actual word? ”
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded Google in 1998 while they were both research students at Stanford University, this question prompted various theories as to the origins of the name of the company.
In response to the question of whether Google is an acronym for Global Organization of Oriented Group Language of Earth, some people said that the answer is factually incorrect. Among others, there have been some who point out that the name is not an acronym. Google is a play on the word “Googol,” which they explained as a play on the word “Google.”
A googol is a mathematical term that refers to a number that consists of 1 followed by 100 zeros – an unimaginably large number, to say the least.
It is interesting to note that the term “metric absurdity” was coined in 1920 by Milton Sirotta. This term was mentioned in a 1940 book (“Mathematics and the Imagination”) written by the American mathematician Edward Kasner. The idea behind such a ridiculous number was for it to be called something equally ridiculous.
As part of the criteria for naming the company, Larry Page and the team proposed the name “Googol” as one of the possible names. After checking whether the domain’s availability for Googol was still available, one of Page’s friends mispelled the word as “Google.” Page did not mind the mispelling. The origin of Google can be traced back to this event.
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