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2006-12-01 10:35:04
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol," which refers to 10100 (a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros).The verb "google" was added to both the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary, meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.
Google, Inc. is an American public corporation and search engine, first incorporated as a privately held company on 7 September 1998. The company had 9,378 full-time employees as of September 30, 2006 and is based in Mountain View, California. Eric Schmidt, former chief executive officer of Novell, is Google's CEO, after co-founder Larry Page stepped down-.
2006-11-29 03:33:41
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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What is Google? The most important Search Engine for the last 5 years. Millions of people use it every day to spot the best websites regarding the issue they are looking for.
2006-11-30 17:49:25
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answer #3
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answered by David D 1
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The Meaning of Google
"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
2006-11-28 08:13:12
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answer #4
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answered by prem parkash khatri 2
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If you have a brand new dictionary it will be in there...it was incorporated into the english language last year I think after the success of the search engine...to google it..means to go on line and use a search engine...most probably google to find the answer....it just goes to show that the english language is still alive and evolving...unlike so many others... viva la revolution! (u can google that too!)
2006-11-28 08:02:40
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answer #5
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answered by michael s 4
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"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
2006-11-28 08:05:27
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answer #6
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answered by redunicorn 7
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What does "Google" mean?
The name "Google" is a play on the word "googol," which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. A googol refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by 100 zeros. A googol is a very large number. There isn't a googol of anything in the universe -- not stars, not dust particles, not atoms. Google's use of the term reflects our mission to organize the world's immense (and seemingly infinite) amount of information and make it universally accessible and useful.
2006-11-28 08:04:05
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answer #7
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answered by She_says 2
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A googol is 1 with 100 zeros
A googolplex is 1 with a google of zeros.
Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.
2006-11-28 08:00:17
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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Google began as a research project in January, 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California.[6] They hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better results than existing techniques (existing search engines at the time essentially ranked results according to how many times the search term appeared on a page).It was originally nicknamed "BackRub" because the system checked backlinks to estimate a site's importance.A small search engine called RankDex was already exploring a similar strategy.
Convinced that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant web pages must be the most relevant pages associated with the search, Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine. Originally the search engine used the Stanford University website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The domain google.com was registered on September 14, 1997, and the company was incorporated as Google Inc. on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. The total initial investment raised for the new company eventually amounted to almost US$1.1 million, including a $100,000 check by Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems.
In March, 1999, the company moved into offices at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto, home to several other noted Silicon Valley technology startups. After quickly outgrowing two other sites, the company settled into their current home in a complex of buildings in Mountain View at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, also in 1999. The complex has since become known as the Googleplex (a play on the word googolplex, a 1 followed by a googol of zeros). Silicon Graphics leased the buildings to Google.
The Google search engine attracted a loyal following among the growing number of Internet users. They were attracted to its simple, uncluttered, clean design — a competitive advantage to attract users who did not wish to enter searches on web pages filled with visual distractions. This appearance imitated AltaVista's, but incorporated Google's unique search capabilities. In 2000, Google began selling advertisements associated with search keywords. This strategy was important for increasing advertising revenue, which is based upon the number of hits users make upon ads. The ads were text-based in order to maintain an uncluttered page design and to maximize page loading speed. Keywords were sold based on a combination of price bid and clickthroughs, with bidding starting at $.05 per click. This model of selling keyword advertising was pioneered by Goto.com (later renamed Overture, then Yahoo! Search Marketing).While many of its dot-com rivals failed in the new Internet marketplace, Google quietly rose in stature while generating revenue.
2006-11-28 08:28:13
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answer #9
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answered by rajaurongzeb 1
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Only a "fantasy" name, made up to be different and easily
remembered and not confused with others. Contrary to
"Yahoo" which is an American expression often used to
express pleasure and joy, but which turned common use
by Hollywood cowboy movies when herding cattle.
2006-11-28 08:13:19
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answer #10
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answered by Ricky 6
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i don't know for sure but what i do know is that if you type in that same question in the yahoo search engine u get to a site which must be a little scarey for a LOT !!!!!!!
2006-11-28 08:08:20
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answer #11
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answered by Anonymous
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