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To: Truth29

Google...weird name, huh?

Gov + Ogle = GOOGLE


29 posted on 02/07/2017 5:23:30 AM PST by demsux (Obama: THE job destroyer)
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To: demsux
The name comes from number theory. A googol (named by a kid, in fact) is very large number, 10 to the power of 100. Google is an intentional misspelling of that.
50 posted on 02/07/2017 8:00:56 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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