Even though Google is one of the most widely used search engines worldwide, many people are still unaware of the origins of its peculiar moniker.

The origin of Google was revealed by a user who posed the question, “Is Google an acronym?” in a Quora post that has since been revived. The inquiry gave rise to a number of ideas on the company’s name origins. Computer scientists Sergey Brin and Larry Page launched the business in 1998 while pursuing doctorates at Stanford University.
Some responded by stating that Google is an acronym for the “Global Organization of Oriented Group Language of Earth.” The response is untrue in terms of facts, though. It was brought up by a few others that the name is not an acronym. Google, they clarified, was a pun on the name “Google.”

What is the secret behind Google’s name?

A googol is a mathematical phrase that denotes 1 followed by 100 zeroes, an almost unfathomable quantity. This should be noted.

Remarkably, American mathematician Edward Kasner’s nine-year-old nephew Milton Sirotta first used this term in 1920. In fact, Sirotta included it in his 1940 book “Mathematics and the Imagination.” Sirotta felt a name as ridiculous as the number itself should go with it.

Before Larry Page and his group, “Googol” was one of the proposed names for the business. A friend misspelled the domain’s name as “Google” when Page verified its availability for Googol. Page found the typo humorous. That’s how Google got its start.