googol
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The Stanford University coders behind the search engine, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, had initially called their project Backrub before renaming it Google—a play on googol, meaning one followed by 100 zeros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
A googol, for example, is 10^100, which has 101 digits.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2014
Of Google, she says it can be an “an empty vessel who don’t know what a googol is.”
From Forbes ● Oct. 14, 2013
Science with humanity is googol times more amazing.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2013
And yet these numbers, the googol and the googolplex, do not approach, they come nowhere near, the idea of infinity.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
