Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Why is Google called "Google?"

  1. Seemed like a good idea to Larry and Sergey.

  2. Named after Bill Gates' dog, who is also named Google.

  3. It's a misspelling of the word "googol", which is a huge number.

  4. Same number of syllables as Yahoo.
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Explanation

The name Google is a misspelling of googol, which is the mathematical number 1 followed by 100 zeros (10^100). This name was chosen to reflect Google's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the internet. Larry Page and Sergey Brin settled on this spelling when they registered the domain name, as googol.com was already taken.

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