Google derived its name from the word "googol", a term coined by then nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner. The story goes, Kasner had asked his nephew to invent a name for a very large number - ten to the power of one hundred (the numeral one followed by 100 zeros), and Milton called it a googol. The term was later made popular and in Kasner's book, Mathematics and the Imagination, which he co-authored with James Newman. Later, another mathematician invented the term "googolplex", which represents ten to the power of a googol - a substantially larger number.

As Google is now the world's most popular search engine, its association with a number so vast is appropriate. According to www.google.com, "Google's use of the term [Google] reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web."* In fact, this mission itself grows increasingly large daily, as the Internet continues to grow exponentially throughout the world.

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I am requesting you to don`t ask question like this in forum section.. Google it.....

this question are typical one this is onlyknown by the developer.

I heard that it was derived from Googol , a number with 100 zeroes after one.

Satish kail, but asking this type of questions not only me but many others who don't will know the answer,

It is derived from the word 'googol' which means one followed by hundred zeros.

Wow, by this query i got know the history of name Google. thanks to fathima for raising such query

Well explained by Rohit !!! I think the answer is already give and once you search a word in Google you can see Goooooooogle and under each 'O' a search page is displayed with numbering from 1 to soon. :)

Google name is nice i think googly boll funda came from google. it mean search search and search.