The popular search engine, known for the way it has transformed the Internet, is used by billions of people from all over the world since its launch in 1998, but few know that Google’s name has appeared from a writing mistake.
Google’s name appeared from a writing mistake. Photo archive
Google has grown significantly in these 27 years and now operates services like Gmail, YouTube and Workpace. The company also has its own smartphone, has the Pixel brand and has completed a $ 2.1 billion purchase of Fitbit.
However, the popular name used by everyone is not only an ordinary word, but also a writing mistake, according to dailymail.co.uk.
A recent message from Quora, in which someone wondered if “Google” is an acronym, revealed that, in fact, the word is a mistake of writing the word “googol”.
“Googol” is a mathematical term that designates the number 1 followed by 100 zeros – an extremely large number. Was chosen as an inspiration for Google’s name, to reflect the mission of the founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin: to organize a huge amount of information on the Internet and to make it accessible and useful for all.
The word “googol” was invented in 1920 by a nine -year -old boy named Milton Sirotta. Sirotta’s inspiration for this term would have been the comic book Barney Google. The boy was the nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, who frequently referred to “googol” in his book “Mathematics and the Imagination”. Page revealed that the name appeared while he and Brin were looking for a name for their search engine. However, the person who suggested the wrong name wrong as “Google” – and so left.
Although the name Google comes from that mathematical term, a user from Quora, Ezio Solutions Limited, has supported something else, despite the explanation. He said Google would, in fact, be an acronym for “Global Organization of Orient Group Language of Earth.”
Even though this explanation sounds interesting, due to lack of evidence, the theory that Google means “Global Organization of Orient Group Language of Earth” is considered false.
The partnership between Page and Brin started shortly after they met at Stanford University in 1995.
The two started working from the fireplaces on a search engine that used links (links) to determine the importance of pages on the Internet. Initially, the project called “Backrub”, but then changed the name to Google.
Google quickly attracted the attention of investors, and what started as a project became a reality after the co -founder Sun Microsystems, Andy Bechtolsheim, invested $ 100,000.
Business people like Jeff Bezos and Ram Shriram also invested in the company, and by 1998, Google had attracted investments of over $ 300,000.
Today, according to Internet Live Stats, 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion annually, worldwide.
Page and Brin worked alongside Google and parent company, Alphabet Inc., intermittently, until they completely withdrew in 2019. Currently, Alphabet Inc. It has a value of over $ 1.8 trillion.
