[WEB4LIB] Re: new search site - Oingo

[Bouchet, ML]

I thought Google was a sideways joke on the CEO of Yahoo! - Tim Koogle?

cheers,
Marie-Laure

M-L Bouchet
Internet Information Specialist
Library & Information Services
Nottingham Trent University

ml.bouchet at ntu.ac.uk

> 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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