How did Google get its name?
Correct answer: From a chance misspelling
MALICE
these lil tidbits are cool to learn
Player #1744876
fun fact about google. Google offered to pay $6,006.13 to Sanmay Ved, who bought the Google.com domain for $12. It ended up paying twice that amount to a charity he picked.
Nikitasilver1
I am just loving all of these facts.
DevilsDaughter3262
I like learning all I can and this one was pretty cool .
Player #2911918
How many great ideas have come from mistake. Amazing. Keep up the mistakes more thing will happen.
LordGregory69
A 1 with a hundred zeros after it. Yeah, it's a large number.
Player #6701542
I never knew!! that awesome.... sometimes mistakes open the doors to our destiny. I love it
Player #numero ono
now I can sleep better knowing how the name came. to be. what a warm fuzzy feeling I have now.
Player #28181276
if googol is 1 to the power of 100 and is also a male, does that mean that it's probably exaggerating and it's more like 1 to the power 70?
ImpossibleyLucky1344
I learned this while taking a Java class, the googol part and just remembered the joke in the class about how Google misspelled the word.
Craig
And yet they ended up with a Bazillion Million Dollar company.
Smokey 84
Love Google most of the time, but not the fact that it listens to what you say, and you get an ad or article on that subject the next day. 🤔
kronik
DARPA owns Google.
Cat Mom
Player #1744876, Please say again?
sunnee
it's funny how it seems like Google has been around for ever but still it's realitivly young!
Player #130998363
I like "Giggle" better
JohnnyW
Player #28181276, 1 to the power of 100 is still just 1 I’m afraid. A googol is 10 to the power of 100.
pocket
dotsy22, would have been hilarious if it was
Helen
#1player, modesty is everything 🤣🤣
gneza
it means it's ok to misspelled some words sometimes!😂
Ruth
Love that we are all playing the same Game!
KittyA9
“Halt and Catch Fire” ~ great tv series of that place and time. Fictional stories of how the computer industry got started in the Bay Area.
Steven
This is a peice of cake
Amos
Player #2911918, Oprah Winfrey’s name is one of the most famous mistakes I know of. Her parents MEANT to call her ORPAH, which is the name of a woman in the Old Testament…
Wannabe Vulcan
Derek87, no, a googolplex is one with a googol zeroes. A googol times a googol is just a one with 200 zeroes.
Wannabe Vulcan
Player #28181276, which would be one in either case. Ten to the power of whatever makes the joke easier to follow.
Wannabe Vulcan
LordGregory69, and a googolplex is a 1 with a googol zeroes after it. It means quite a few.
jt
Google would be a Virgo 😆✨
kazren
A googol is a number that is best defined as 1 followed by 100 zeros
Lou
i like this one 🤩
CubicBrotherMA
Interesting bit of history that I may not have looked up otherwise. Just “BackRub” it instead of “just Google it” would sound quite funny though
jun
reason were googling!
LeLe
MALICE, often wondered about the name's origin
melissa
I love learning all these tidbits of information. I have always been a trivia fanatic but this game is the best!
Hanoj
And there we are, google anything we want to know on the tip of our fingers or thumb😀
fortune
Player #1744876 and also $600613 is Google in in money form
Vickie Apel
I really enjoyed reading all about this. love this game
Player #5103780
I wasSo like why I got it I got long
dotsy22
I thought it was from two words.... Go Ogle.
Phil 'sum guy'
many things come from serendipity like post it notes from glue that didn't work right ... Cereal was created as a meal for sick patients, etc... many top hits from the 'B' side of the record ...