My son discovered something yesterday...

kevhed72

That the company "Google" is actually spelled incorrectly.

The number is spelled "Googol" and looks like this:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

so what the heck is "Google"

your deep thought for the day...

bobman1235

What the hell is a gigawatt?!

kevhed72

Let me Googol that for you...

seeclear

"Google" is the company that lives inside your head and knows what website you are looking for before you know.

kevhed72

seeclear wrote: »

"Google" is the company that lives inside your head and knows what website you are looking for before you know.

Is it like a computer chip or something?

nadams

Well, it's not really spelled wrong... they chose to name it Google. Yes, it is in reference to googol, but they intended to name it what they named it.

thesurfer

All i know is, its pretty handy,

inspiredsports

I discovered something today. . . I googled "kevhead72" and is said it was mispelled and should be "kevinhead72" :biggrin:

packetjones

I think that they misspelled it in error but it was too late to change it.

bobman1235

There seem to be LOTS of opinions on whether it was a deliberate mistake or not.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/5-different-stories-about-googles-name.html

cokewithvanilla

I can imagine they might have done if for the trademark. Isn't it much more difficult to trademark a single, dictionary word than a phrase or made up word?

[Deleted User]

I looked up googol on wiki and they told me to godaddy. :eek:

gdb

It's a derivative of Frank Zappa's " Great Googley Moogley"

mrbigbluelight

nap wrote: »

I looked up googol on wiki and they told me to godaddy. :eek:

Then bless you, googol, and wiki.

<a href="http://videos.godaddy.com/godaddy_media.aspx?&quot; target="_blank"> Reference Purposes Only</a>

TECHNOKID

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

[Deleted User]

There's also the googolplex, which is 10 raised to the power of a googol. A number so large that there isn't enough room in the universe to write out the numerals. Even if you found the room there hasn't been enough time since the big bang happened to complete it if you'd started then.

nadams

Kenneth Swauger wrote: »

There's also the googolplex, which is 10 raised to the power of a googol. A number so large that there isn't enough room in the universe to write out the numerals. Even if you found the room there hasn't been enough time since the big bang happened to complete it if you'd started then.

And, coincidentally, the main Google campus is referred to as the "Googleplex".