4 Sep
2018
4 Sep
'18
6:55 a.m.
On 09/03/2018 06:45 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
There is some confusion over the name
"Google"; some say that someone
couldn't spell the mathematical number "googol" (10**100), and others
claim that is was a joke on their part, which I suspect is revisionist
history.
I would appreciate a correction, and need I point out that a web
reference may not cut the mustard?
The official story inside Google is that the name discrepancy was on
purpose. I don't know the motivation behind it. But I have no doubt
that it was deliberate.
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Grant. . . .
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