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XeroCool writes "Alan Williamson got invited to BayCHI lecture at PARC by Marissa Mayer (Product Manager for Google) to talk about google and get the facts. They both were in a room and Alan got some good facts about Google. One fact was: The name 'Google' was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for 'Googol'."
is there some type of founder that is other than the original one?
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
Slashdot was originaly supposed to be Slashbot, home of the slicing, dicing, humanity destructing robot of death. Good thing for us they had a spelling error in the domain name and just made it news for nerds.
Sheesh... you would think that they could have at least Googled for the correct spelling.
Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.
Please could somebody let my boss know. Pretty please.
liqbase
I know what you mean - all they had to do was a quick Google search to come up with a host of tutorials!
Call themselves geniuses...
- Jax
10.# The name 'Google' was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for 'Googol'
Wow that was close. Some more typo and we'd all be kogaling instead.
Don't you guys find embarassing the history of all these "I-thought-I-knew-how-it-was-spelled" names? Google, Novell, Cisco (?) etc. Seems like all those ivy founders had major educational problems. I would probably modded as troll if I were to say that another funny coincidence strikes me - they are all americans. But I'm not saying it ;-)
Excuse my poor english, as I'm not a native speaker, just a poorly educated east-european.
Looking at Googol and then Google you have to say it was one hell of a lucky mistake. Google rolls off the tounge and everyone knows it's easy to spell where as googol is just an annoying nameto think about.
Yes, it's amazing how a word you've seen and heard almost everyday for the past, oh, five years is easier to say and spell than one you aren't familiar with. What an incredible coincidence!
You can't take the sky from me...
Programmers who can't spell? Now I've heard everything!
"I feel lucky" is nearly never used. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.
;-)
Exactly, "I'm Feeling lucky" keeps "Google" search from looking naked for some odd reason. It's Genious.
I think people don't use it because if they do, they feel like google is calling them "punk" while routing them
You can't take the sky from me...
As I already pointed out quite a while ago, the name was not chosen by accident and it should be read as go ogle. Porn is behind everything, man!
I don't know about Google, but here at MSN, we classify email users this way:
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1. Those that feel physically inadequate and need viagra and penis enhancements.
2. Those that hate their careers and need diplomas.
3. Those that are lonely and want to know about every porn site in existence
4. Those that need cash quick and don't mind helping out friendly Nigerian Officials
5. Those that need good luck and don't mind sending out chain mail to get it.
6. Those that want cheap prescription drugs from reputable companies in the back of alleys.
Here at MSN, we're committed to helping our users so we start off by by giving our users access to all these value added emails. As we get to know users better through Microsoft patented Big Brother[TM] technologies, we tailor or filters so that you can get more of the informative emails advertising that you need.
Try out MSN. We're eager to serve you.[1]
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or http://www.scifilm.org/tv/tz/twilightzone3-24.htm
How could someone not know HTML, yet be able to write googles algorithm? Dont most programmers laugh at the easyness of html?
Yeah. And French is easy too. Ten year olds speak it!
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"The infamous "I feel lucky" is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button."
Well, it makes sense if you think about it. Everyone wants to feel lucky...and I doubt a "I feel apathetic towards the world and my creator" could fit there, anyway...
Ohwaitasecond..