The name of the American Internet company Google has long been a source of mystery, yet it is widely recognized as a leading platform for users to do online searches.
“Is Google an acronym?” was the inquiry that sparked the argument on an online question-answer site.
According to the New York Post, it sparked comments and assumptions from individuals who looked up the company’s name when it was established in 1998 by computer scientists Sergey Brin and Larry Page while they were finishing their doctorates at Stanford University.
Google is an acronym for the “Global Organization of Oriented Group Language of Earth,” according to certain theories, albeit false ones.
Conversely, some others proposed that the recognizable letters in blue, red, yellow, and green are a pun on the term “Googol.”
That is arithmetic terminology for 10 raised to the power of 100, or 1 with 100 zeroes behind it, according to the publication. That is an almost unfathomably large number.
Milton Sirotta, the 9-year-old nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, first used the term in 1920. In his 1940 book “Mathematics and the Imagination,” Kasner made several references to the figure.
When Googol was proposed as a name by one of the founders, the computer experts questioned if the domain was still available.
