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Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

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'."

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  1. Origional Founders? by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 5, Funny

    is there some type of founder that is other than the original one?

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  2. Little Known Fact... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Little Known Fact... by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Now you know why someone's signature used to say "news for herds, stuff that spatters". :-)

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  3. Lazy Mistake by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for 'Googol'."

    Sheesh... you would think that they could have at least Googled for the correct spelling.

  4. Re:Whaa?? by JaxWeb · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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  5. names by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Sigh by Scrameustache · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  7. Accident my foot! by SlashCrunchPop · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  8. I Feel Lucky by Rie+Beam · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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...