....didn't the word Google used to mean a specific number, a 1 with 100 zero's?
That is "googol".
The Internet search engine Google was named after this number. The original founders were going for 'Googol', but ended up with 'Google' due to a spelling mistake. Lawrence_E._Page: "Lucas Pereira: 'You idiots, you spelled "Googol" wrong!' But this was good, because google.com was available and googol.com was not. Now most people spell 'Googol' 'Google', so it worked out OK in the end."
R"Don" wrote in news:r9BHe.12482$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net:
Something like that, yes.
These days, tho', people keep saying that "words mean what they want them to mean", so who knows any more...
- Kris
That's a clever way to encourage communication.
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