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September 5th, 2007, 20:21 GMT · By Bogdan Popa
Do You Know What 'Google' Means? |
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Google is one of the most popular brands on the Internet and this was proved by the numerous surveys conducted by the research companies. Because it is so famous, most of the Internet users are frequently talking about it just like about a person. But have you ever asked yourselves what Google means
or at least where the Google term comes from? Well, Dictionary.com, one of the most popular web-based dictionaries defines Google as "a trademark used for an Internet search engine. This trademark often occurs in print as a verb, sometimes in lowercase." But still no definition of the world. According to the Google guys, the company's name comes from the word 'googol' which is actually a number invented by Milton Sirotta. Probably the Google name is related to the number of the results provided by the search technology which is usually huge. "The name 'Google' is a play on the word 'googol,' coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. A 'googol' refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by 100 zeros. It's a very large number. In fact, there isn't a googol of anything in the universe -- not stars, not dust particles, not atoms. Google's use of the term reflects our mission to organize the world's immense (seemingly infinite) amount of information and make it universally accessible and useful," Google tried to explain the origins of the company's name. Because it is a company name, Google is a noun. Logically. However, slowly but sure, it evolves and tends to become a verb as numerous users refer to the act of searching the Internet as "googling". For example, I heard some friends saying "I'm going to Google it," meaning that they will search the Internet using the Google search engine.
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| Comment #1 by: jessica on 04 Aug 2008, 19:50 UTC |  reply to this comment | isn't "google" a number?
I've heard that the word and/or number, "google" has countless o's.
for example,I search up something on google, and it has 16 pages, at the bottom it'll have the word google like this goooooooooooooooogle.
because every 'o' represents a page! |
| Comment #2 by: Tommy on 29 Aug 2008, 08:52 UTC | reply to this comment | "In fact, there isn't a googol of anything in the universe -- not stars, not dust particles, not atoms"
Since the Universe is supposed to be infinite this statement can not be true.
I guess it needs to be "Our galaxy" instead of Universe or even "observable universe" but it could not be Universe by definition.
There are probably more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. |
| Comment #2.1 by: G-Spot on 31 Jul 2011, 07:10 GMT | Probably he means there is nothing discovered yet having somehow this large number.. |
| Comment #3 by: halhoumi on 24 Feb 2009, 11:42 UTC | reply to this comment | The Google and the meaning, ok I think that it's to words Go and Ogle, ogle is a high telescope made for watching the galaxis and it can detect the planets intermediaire, so google means that it can delevre the mini thing even if they are hiden as the Ogle do with the planets. |
| Comment #4 by: pra on 29 Jun 2009, 21:43 UTC | reply to this comment | actualy its not google... when this search engine (google) was made it was gogole..... its mean 10 to the power 100........... but by mistake it was registered as google........... now it means "request some body to search something on web/net..........it was made by 3 partners/friend............. |
| Comment #5 by: Akshay on 05 Oct 2009, 11:21 UTC | reply to this comment | I have heard that "google" is the name of 6 persons who invented it.G is first person,O is second and third,G is fourth,L is fifth and E is sixth. |
| Comment #6 by: Ashley on 06 Oct 2009, 18:48 UTC | reply to this comment | Most people should know that "Google" was copied from a mathematical term for ten to the 100th power, famously first uttered as `googol' by a mathematician's nine-year-old nephew.
Duh! |
| Comment #7 by: Y.Chetan on 21 Jan 2010, 11:34 UTC | reply to this comment | Thanks for telling what the Google means.Its very interesting that the information u given for the query i asked to the google search engine |
| Comment #9 by: arjun singh on 28 Jul 2010, 20:38 UTC | reply to this comment | I THINK
the Universe is supposed to be infinite this statement can not be true.
I guess it needs to be "Our galaxy" instead of Universe or even "observable universe" but it could not be Universe by definition.
There are probably more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universeINK
THAT'S WHY IT IS GOOGLE |
| Comment #10 by: samuel on 04 Aug 2010, 01:44 UTC | reply to this comment | Thank u by the explanation of the word Google! I was curious to understand what means such a word! |
| Comment #12 by: oz on 10 Sep 2010, 23:27 UTC | reply to this comment | I just read a book © 1993 with the word google in it. Its says google is a verb that means to look at someone in a Wide-eyed, silly, or playful manner. |
| Comment #13.1 by: sunil on 29 Oct 2010, 01:09 GMT | Is it go ogle |
| Comment #14 by: tube on 29 Oct 2010, 16:35 UTC | reply to this comment | "The Google" To me indispensable companion to the real world, my teacher, friend, companion, confidant, long life to him. |
| Comment #15 by: j man on 07 Dec 2010, 14:21 UTC | reply to this comment | today i have learned somthing that my fellow classmates probably do not know. so i would like to say that softpedia is one of the sites that is almost like google |
| Comment #16 by: danner on 07 Dec 2010, 22:38 UTC | reply to this comment | A google. as per definition, is 10 Billions of 10 Billions....quite of large number... |
| Comment #18 by: payal on 15 Jan 2011, 13:54 UTC | reply to this comment | i like google. i think google is a open dictionery for more knowlage... |
| Comment #19 by: RAKESHILPA on 20 Jan 2011, 21:41 UTC | reply to this comment | its a big lol, man Google means which is not any end. |
| Comment #20 by: Marcelo on 14 Feb 2011, 23:13 UTC | reply to this comment | The first time I heard the word googol was by Carl Sagan in COSMOS. I really enjoyed that tv series. My favorite ever. |
| Comment #21 by: Duale on 15 Feb 2011, 07:50 UTC | reply to this comment | thanks 4ur information abouth what does google meens really i asked this qouestion in my self more once but now i got the point thank u all
best grt to articlized |
| Comment #22.1 by: ayoub laabidi on 04 May 2011, 22:25 GMT | the google help use to searching something we thon't know it, and you can rite any questions and he give you the answer quickly it's a mazing searching in the net i love it so much :) |
| Comment #23 by: ayoub laabidi on 04 May 2011, 22:34 UTC | reply to this comment | the google help use to search some thing we don't no it so google give you the rite question and you can rite a difficult question and he give you the rite answer , so google very quickly and he all time ready to the questions and the difficult questions, i love it so much :) |
| Comment #24 by: Paul on 15 May 2011, 16:12 UTC | reply to this comment | In fact, there isn't a googol of anything in the universe -- not stars, not dust particles.
The above statement is wrong if we compare it with dust particles. If I am wrong can you prove? |
| Comment #25 by: yopop on 19 Jun 2011, 23:52 UTC | reply to this comment | why flicker didn't started as flicker from the begining? |
| Comment #28 by: lanooneh on 06 Oct 2011, 19:47 UTC | reply to this comment | I think google means along and very huge thing because some times it writen gooooo...gle. |
| Comment #29 by: Shah-rukh malik on 26 Oct 2011, 01:42 UTC | reply to this comment | Google is best bcoz. If any problem create in education and daly life google will help us and give gud. Results. If people abuse it. It is dangrous of us and also for our species. |
| Comment #30 by: Robina on 10 Nov 2011, 20:57 UTC | reply to this comment | Hello. Today for the first time i learnt what the name Google meant. It's odd because i never thought about the name meaning anything until today. It was my boss at work that said 'do you not know that the google name comes from the word Googol?! I learnt this at school in Maths..didnt you!' So i was entrigued to find out and thanks to your explanation I now know. Thanks |
| Comment #31 by: dark watch on 11 Dec 2011, 15:09 UTC | reply to this comment | it is not true google means GOT ONLY OUR LEARN EVER |
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