Google Etymology

The word "Google" is a play on the word "googol," which is a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. The name was chosen by the company's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to represent the vast amount of information that the search engine was designed to organize and make accessible to users. The name "Google" was first used in 1997, when Page and Brin were still graduate students at Stanford University and were developing the search engine as a research project. The name was originally spelled "Googol," but was later changed to "Google" due to a spelling error that was made when the founders registered the domain name. The name "Google" has since become synonymous with internet search and has become one of the most recognizable brands in the world.