Posted on 03/09/2015 8:36:25 AM PDT by rktman
Let’s go back to the beginning of Google. The word itself is actually an error. The word the infant geeks who founded Google were looking for was “Googol,” the mathematicians’ term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes – a very large number. And have they corrected their mistake? No.
Google execs like to claim the corporation was founded in a garage. No, it wasn’t. The truth is, it was founded in a swank suburban villa on a leafy street. There was a garage attached, and the geeks set up a couple of old computers in there and typically spent one day a month there so that they could later claim Google was just another trad Silicon-valley start-up.
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Are you not only an IT guru, but also a Technical Editor? Your explanation was quite enlightening!
Regards,
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