Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I found this reference (in Dictionary.com--clearly not the OED, but if
'google' is in the Oxford, we are in trouble!)
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Google: The World-Wide Web search engine that indexes the greatest number of
web pages - over two billion by
December 2001 and provides a free service that searches this index in less
than a second.
The site's name is apparently derived from "googol", but note the difference
in spelling.
The "Google" spelling is also used in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
by Douglas Adams, in which one of Deep
Thought's designers asks, "And are you not," said Fook, leaning anxiously
foward, "a greater analyst than the
Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which
can calculate the trajectory of every single
dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?"
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Okay, then!
Kit
-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+leicagalpal=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+leicagalpal=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Buzz Hausner
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:14 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: [Leica] An Aside Regarding Google
If my sometimes faulty memory serves me this evening, I recall that
"Google" is actually a corruption of the fanciful number, a "Googol,"
representing ten to the one hundredth power. I do believe that the word
was coined by a nine-year-old, but that could be apocryphal. I am not a
mathematician; perhaps Brian Reid or one of the more numerate among us
might be able to inform us fully.
Buzz Hausner
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