Untold story behind "Google"

About Google

Hello folks, as you all are aware and familiar to Internet and I am sure you all are pretty much used to it. So, I hope you also know about Google. Google is a search engine (basically), though it provides many more services nowadays. But initially it was tended for searching only. Right now, Google acquires 90.14% search engine market share Worldwide. Visit Here This is awesome, isn't it? 

Market Share May 2018 - May 2019

But, the mystery behind the name "Google" makes me laugh because it kinds of funny. Google was originally named "BackRub". In 1996, Sergey Brin and Lary Page collaborated on a project and named it as "BackRub". While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, Page and Brin theorized about a better platform that analyzed the relationships and dependencies among websites. In 1997, Page and Brin registered the domain name of their expanding project "Google", which was misspelled. They wanted to name it as "googol", a mathematical term represented by the number one followed by hundred zeros. The name represented massively infinite amount of data. That's how it was named "Google"!!!

Googol

Googol is the label for 10 to the hundredth power (10100), or 1 followed by 100 zeros. Invented by Edward Kasner, the American mathematician referenced the quantity extensively in his 1940 book, "Mathematics and the Imagination." Kasner intended the number to serve as an example for students in showing how a number could be so incredibly large, it could baffle their minds.

1 googol = 1 followed by 100 zeros

While the term wasn’t more universally accepted and used until his book’s publishing, Kasner dated its creation to 1920 when he asked his 9-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, what he should call the number. Milton appropriately responded that such a silly sum required an equally silly name, from which the term "googol" was coined.

Larry page and Sergey Brin, both grew yp fascinated with mathematics and decided to name their company after number which indicates immensely massive amount of data. As the early Google team searched for available domain names, a student accidentally typed googol as "Google" and the name just got stuck. Though Google is a misspelling of googol, the company is based upon the same mathematical principles.

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