[WEB4LIB] RE: Googol?

[Daniel Messer]

    Also note that one is a search engine and the other is a number. I've run
across several people who confuse the spelling of Google because they're thinking
of the number googol, which is 10 to the power of 100, or a 1 followed by 100
zeros. I know why a googol is called a googol, but I have no idea where Google got
their name. Can anyone enlighten me there? I checked their FAQs, but I never saw
the reason.

Dan


"Andrew I. Mutch" wrote:

> Yes, one is a search engine and the other is a spoof. You decide which is
> which.
> :)
>
> The "Googol" site is just an extended "fake" IM chat that is supposed to
> point out:
>
> 1) The low-content nature of chat.
>
> 2) The potential threat to privacy of conversation over the Internet.
>
> Almost all of the links off "Googol" go back to the real Google site.
>
> Andrew Mutch
> Library Systems Technician
> Waterford Township Public Library
> Waterford, MI
>
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Abbott, Bruce wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have a quick answer to the difference between Google and Googol?
> > Is there any?
> >
> > Bruce Abbott
> > Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Library
> > 433 Bolivar St.
> > New Orleans, LA  70112
> >
> > 504-568-7718 (fax)
> > 504-568-6103 (voice)
> > babbot at lsuhsc.edu
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven.Cohen at rivkin.com [mailto:Steven.Cohen at rivkin.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:47 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: [WEB4LIB] Googol?
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Have you guys seen this yet?=20
> >
> > http://aimsearch.hybernaut.com/3.html - Search 5 Years of Instant=20
> > Messenger Logs - "In November of 2001 AOL Time Warner, responding to a subp=
> > oena from=20
> > Attorney General John Ashcroft, made available to the Justice Department a =
> >
> > complete archive of all private conversations held over AOL Instant=20
> > Messenger (AIM). Through the power of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)=
> > , Googol was able to obtain a copy of this entire logfile, totaling over=20
> > 2 terabytes of conversations previously thought to be private. This unique =
> > resource provides insight into the minds of potential anti-American terrori=
> > sts,=20
> > cheating spouses, and countless computer neophytes."
> >
> > http://aimsearch.hybernaut.com/aimsearch - The search engine is here
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/23610.html - an article about the=20
> > whole thing.
> >
> > It would have been funnier if the results were not "canned"
> > Steven Cohen
> > Rivkin Radler LLP
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