[WEB4LIB] Re: new search site - Oingo

Dan Lester dan at 84.com
Tue Oct 12 23:00:18 EDT 1999


At 10:39 AM 10/12/99 -0700, Darryl Friesen wrote:

> > And, what the hey, Oingo makes as
> > much sense as Google!
>
>Since we're straying a bit off topic anyway....

Or, I think of it as a variant spelling of googol, which is ten to the 
hundredth power, and seems to fit with the burgeoning web and the problems 
of searching it.
q.v.  http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~fp/Tools/Googool.html  This 
page will also tell you about a googolplex.

www.googol.com was already taken as a personal website.

dan

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