Google, the most popular search engine in the world (excluding China and Russia) is part of the daily lives of thousands of users. It is so ingrained in our routines that it seems like we have had it all our lives (and well, for those under 20, that is true).
However, there are many things that I'm sure you haven't heard kyrgyzstan email list 36839 contact leads about this search engine. Starting with the origin of its name and continuing with some very interesting details. You will discover all of this in the following lines!
What does Google mean?
Google comes from the word googol, or in Spanish gúgol , which is the number 10 raised to the hundredth power, that is, 10 raised to the power of 100. Or in more colloquial language, the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Despite being a finite number, it is a truly immense number.
To give you an idea, it is a number so large that it is greater than the number of atoms that exist in the universe, this number is 10 to the power of 78.
The term googol has been around since 1938, when mathematician Edward Kasner asked his 9-year-old nephew to come up with a name for an immensely large number.
This is how the name chosen to name this search engine for a huge amount of information was Google.
And that's not all, Edward also created a much larger number which was the number 10 raised to the power of a googol, that is, 1 followed by a googol of zeros. Do you know what this number is called? Googolplex! Does it sound familiar? It must be because Google's main headquarters is called Googleplex.
How did it all start?
It all started when Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, met in 1995 at Stanford University, where they were studying computer science. They worked together on a project to create an algorithm for searching data. That was the starting point for what we know today as Google.
