Google is a misspelling of the word "Googol" made by founders, as described in the book "The Google Story" by David A. Vise. Interestingly, to this the founders of Google (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) and their successors did not condemn, protest or argue
This confirms that this is the fact. Hence, It is Misspelt outcome of Googol for the large number 10^100 as sugessted by a 9 year old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner in 1938
The name—a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros—reflects Larry and Sergey's mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
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