OT origin of Google

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Paul Johnson said:
Just struck me ... is the origin of the name Google made from GO OGLE?
Paul

The name "Google" is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton
Sirotta, nephew of U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner in 1938, to refer to the
number represented by 1 followed by a hundred zeros. Google's use of the
term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of
information available on the Web.

Found at: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Google+Inc. where you
will find a comprehensive article about Google.

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Frank Bohan
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Obviously, the name comes from Russian novelist Nikolay (Vasilyevich) Gogol
(1809-1852), best-known for his novel Dead Souls. Gogol's prose is
characterized by imaginative power and linguistic playfulness. As an exposer
of the defects of human character, Gogol could be called the Bill Gates of
Russian literature.
 
Gogol could be called the Bill Gates of Russian literature.


He writes bad literature that ends up almost everywhere?
Good idea, bad implementation?
Geeky guy that gives away millions of dollars to charity every year?
Do the words that he writes mysteriously cause the book to close
unexpectedly?

Sorry, just havin a bit of fun.

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