is google named after the comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith? The comic that started in 1919.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Google
2006-11-06 16:05:07 · 4 answers · asked by Quiz Master 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
I don't think so, quiz master. Google is like the number 10 to the power of 100. I mean, one hundred is a 1 followed by two zeroes. A googol is a 1 followed by a hundred zeroes.
Also, a googolplex is a 1 followed by a googol zeroes.
2006-11-06 16:07:47 · answer #1 · answered by crage_ralius 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Google is named after the googol, which is the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes (that's why the search engine adds more Os in the image when you have many pages of returned results).
The history of the company is the link below.
2006-11-06 16:13:49 · answer #2 · answered by Brian L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Google (the website) is named after the Googol. It's a really big number...I don't remember how many 0's come after the one, but that's what it is.
2006-11-06 16:07:43 · answer #3 · answered by Insufferable Know-It-All 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is, as everyone else said, named after the number googol which looks like this:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
2006-11-06 16:45:24 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Schnoobley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋