Interesting Word # 77 - Google

The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol," which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros.

(Having found its way increasingly into everyday language, usually through "I Googled it", the verb, "to google," was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning, "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet."


They formally incorporated their company, Google Inc., on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California.)