How did Google get its name?
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How did Google get its name?

Google
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Google

Google, the popular search engine, gets its name from the mathematical term Googol. 
 

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin

The founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were Stanford students when they started developing this new search engine. 
 

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The founders originally named the project BackRub.
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The founders originally named the project BackRub.

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A catchy name

The founders were in search of a catchy name to appeal to a broader audience. 
 

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Googol

During brainstorming sessions, someone proposed the name ‘Googol,’ which is a mathematical term representing the number 10 raise to the power of 100. 
 

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The name Google

When an expert searched for the availability of the domain name, they misspelled the name and instead searched for ‘Google.’
 

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Spelling error

This little spelling error in the name was liked by the founders more than ‘Googol.’ Eventually, the search engine was named as Google. 
 

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Googol

The term ‘googol’ was coined in 1920 by Milton Sirota, who was 9 years old at the time and the nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner.

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