google:
... generic adaptation of the proper name, Google, implying that one is searching the Web; a slang word explained as follows: The transitive verb to google (also spelled to Google) refers to using the Google search engine to obtain information on the Web (source).
The search engine represented by the logo shown was developed at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They focused on the word googol for a domain name but somewhere during the development process it became Google through a spelling error. A googol is a very large number (10 raised to the power of 100, i.e., the number 1 followed by 100
zeros). FYI: The Google Search Engine was launched just a little over two years (1999) after the websites of The Network (1997).
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