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Monday, October 17, 2005

A LITTLE KNOWN FACT ABOUT GOOGLE

It is a little known fact that the search engine superstar Google is not named after the mathematical construct signifying 1 followed by 100 zeros.

In fact, Google is named after comic book legend Barney Google. Silent partner, cofounder, and moneyman Herbert K. Applebaum came from a family that always read the Sunday comics together. He promised his mother, on her deathbed, that if he ever became the behind the scenes founder of an internet company, he would insist that it be named after Barney Google, the family's favorite character.

So it came to be.

link (appears to be broken - documentation forthcoming)

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