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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kolavari" data-source="post: 20093596" data-attributes="member: 412792">Steven Levy wrote about this in his book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003UYUP6M" target="_blank">In The Plex</a>:In  September 1997, Page and Brin renamed BackRub to something they hoped  would be suitable for a business. They gave serious consideration to  “The Whatbox,” until they realized that it sounded too much like  “wetbox,” which wasn’t family-friendly. Then Page’s dorm roommate  suggested they call it “googol.” The word was a mathematical term  referring to the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Sometimes the word  “googolplex” as used generically to refer to an insanely large number.  “The name reflected the scale of what we were doing,” Brin explained a  few years later. “It actually became a better choice of name later on,  because now we have billions of pages and images and groups and  documents, and hundreds of millions of searches a day.” Page misspelled  the word, which was just as well since the Internet address for the  correct spelling was already taken. “Google” was available. “It was easy  to type and memorable,” says Page. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/cool.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:" data-shortname=":cool:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/cool.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:" data-shortname=":cool:" /> </blockquote>

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