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| == Cultural impact == | |||
| Widespread sounding of the word occurs through the name of the company ], with the name "Google" being an accidental misspelling of "googol" by the company's founders,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html |title=Origin of the name "Google" |last=Koller |first=David |date=January 2004 |publisher=Stanford University |accessdate=July 4, 2012 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/68ubHzYs7?url=http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html |archivedate=July 4, 2012 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref> which was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/company.html |title=Google! Beta website |publisher=Google, Inc. |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19990221202430/http://www.google.com/company.html |archivedate=February 21, 1999 |accessdate=October 12, 2010 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref> In 2004, family members of Kasner, who had inherited the right to his book, were considering suing Google for their use of the term googol;<ref>{{cite web|title= Have your Google people talk to my `googol' people|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2004-05-16/entertainment/0405150243_1_google-googol-internet-search-engine}}</ref> however, no suit was ever filed. | |||
| Since October 2009, Google has been assigning domain names to its servers under the domain "1e100.net", the scientific notation for 1 googol, in order to provide a single domain to identify servers across the Google network.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/08/google_mystery_domain/ |title=Google doppelgänger casts riddle over interwebs |date=8 February 2010 |accessdate=30 December 2015 |publisher=The Register |author=Cade Metz}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/174717?hl=en |title=What is 1e100.net? |accessdate=30 December 2015 |publisher=Google}}</ref> | |||
| The word is notable for being the subject of the £1 million question in a 2001 episode of the British quiz show '']'', when contestant ] ] with the help of an accomplice.<ref>{{citation|title=Television's Strangest Moments: Extraordinary But True Tales from the History of Television|first1=Quentin|last1=Falk|first2=Ben|last2=Falk|publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag|year=2005|isbn=9781861058744|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4L7pA2tKumsC&pg=PA245|pages=245–246|contribution=A Code and a Cough: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (1998–)}}.</ref> | |||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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See also
References
External links
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Googol". MathWorld.
- googol at PlanetMath.
- Padilla, Tony; Symonds, Ria. "Googol and Googolplex". Numberphile. Brady Haran.
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