Comments on: First usage of the name “Google” from 1942? http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/first-usage-of-the-name-google-from-1942/ Your daily IT cuppa Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:07:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: ses5909 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/first-usage-of-the-name-google-from-1942/#comment-5317 ses5909 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:45:11 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/first-usage-of-the-name-google-from-1942/#comment-5317 Pretty interesting and no, I did not know that :) Pretty interesting and no, I did not know that :)

]]> By: Jack Hughes http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/first-usage-of-the-name-google-from-1942/#comment-5262 Jack Hughes Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:45:36 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/first-usage-of-the-name-google-from-1942/#comment-5262 @Alan - Thanks for the reference. Darn, only 29 years out. ;) @Alan - Thanks for the reference. Darn, only 29 years out. ;)

]]> By: Alan http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/first-usage-of-the-name-google-from-1942/#comment-5261 Alan Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:50:22 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/first-usage-of-the-name-google-from-1942/#comment-5261 Wasn't google the named coined by a maths professor's child when he as searching for a name for the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros? Hang-on... Ah, sorry it seems as though that was Googol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol) - although I don't remember it being written that way when I first read about it. Anyhow, the Wikipedia suggests 1913: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Google_Book Cheers Alan a.k.a. The Open Sourcerer Wasn’t google the named coined by a maths professor’s child when he as searching for a name for the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros? Hang-on…

Ah, sorry it seems as though that was Googol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol) - although I don’t remember it being written that way when I first read about it.

Anyhow, the Wikipedia suggests 1913: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Google_Book

Cheers

Alan a.k.a. The Open Sourcerer

]]> By: Jack Hughes http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/first-usage-of-the-name-google-from-1942/#comment-5259 Jack Hughes Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:11:19 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/first-usage-of-the-name-google-from-1942/#comment-5259 @Chris - now that would have been newsworthy! A search engine would have seemed pretty bizarre in 1942. @Chris - now that would have been newsworthy! A search engine would have seemed pretty bizarre in 1942.

]]> By: Chris Garrett http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/first-usage-of-the-name-google-from-1942/#comment-5258 Chris Garrett Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:47:43 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/first-usage-of-the-name-google-from-1942/#comment-5258 Cool, but perhaps would have been more surprising if the book had mentioned search (or perhaps time travel, heh) :) You know Google was named as such because of a mis-spelling of googol? Cool, but perhaps would have been more surprising if the book had mentioned search (or perhaps time travel, heh) :)

You know Google was named as such because of a mis-spelling of googol?

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