Google Spelled it wrong.
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The story of Google – Sergey Brin and Larry Page; what started as the two of them looking for a project to do their final paper. It was a requirement for them to get their Phd degrees in Stanford. Sergey and Larry found that there is a problem on the current (in mid 90’s) search engine. The search results were non-efficiency and the result was coming up at a slow speed. So they decided to pick that as their project to do their Phd paper on.
Sergey and Larry started to look at the search technology based on a new idea: A relevant result comes from context. They started their own search engine (they called it ‘Back Rub’) as a test servicing the Campus. Eventually their search engine project got so big and that they have to move it out of the Stanford Campus. Both Sergey and Larry left Stanford to take care of their booming business.
One day the young men were brain storming for a name for their company. And Larry said Google – It means the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred Zeros. So they did a Domain Look up and registered Google.com right away. Later Larry and Sergey realized that the spelling on their Domain name was misspelled. The correct spelling is “Googol” But does it matter!?
Once a friend jokingly said to Larry “You idiots, you spelled [Googol] wrong!” Larry’s comment was “this was good, because google.com was available and googol.com was not.”
Sergey Brin and Larry Page started out to solve a search engine problem and along the ways. They both walked away from their Phd Degrees in Stanford. Opening a company that with a misspelled name. None of these were in their Perfect Plans when they enrolled in Stanford.
Giovanna Garcia
Imperfect Action is better than No Action.
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Hey Giovanna
Great story. Funny that googol.com was already taken. They may have changed the name from google (which I think is quite a good one). I had a check: googol.com is a math dictionary website. At least that is appropriate!
Juliet
Hey, great story, never actually knew that about the google ‘crew’, thanks for sharing
Just shows how a spelling mistake helped make a number one website!
Hi Juliet
This is a good story! I like how Larry didn’t care that is was spell wrong.
Thanks for your comment. By the way, I like your photo
Giovanna Garcia
Imperfect Action is better than No Action
Hi Dan
I am glad you like the story. Yeah, it didn’t matter they spelled it wrong
Thanks for your comment, I am happy to see you here
Giovanna Garcia
Imperfect Action is better than No Action
Gio: Isn’t it funny that people have commented to you about your spelling. It probably means that you are on your way to be a BILLIONAIRE !
I’m sure you’ve noticed that the apple (the fruit) is called a McIntosh, but the apple (computer) is a MacIntosh. Trend?
Hi Jacques
That is right… never discount the bad speller, you never know what they can become
Thanks for the comment. Come back anytime.
Giovanna Garcia
Imperfect Action is better than No Action
Hi Bill
That is right! May be it is good luck
Sure work for those two!
Thanks for your comment, I hope to see you again
Giovanna Garcia
Imperfect Action is better than No Action
Hi Giovanna
This is one of the great success stories that come from an “imperfect action”. Great story!
Hello Barbershop Jerry
That is right! When we start looking we will see that a lot of success started out as Imperfect Action!
Which is why it is so important that we have to start taking action
Thanks for your comment, I look forward to reading more from you.
Giovanna Garcia
Imperfect Action is better than No Action
[...] you know Google was a spelling mistake?, no wonder Ian said search engines aren’t [...]
It was really nice story , thank you for posting
Hi Mustafa,
Thank you for your comment and support.
Giovanna Garcia
Imperfect Action is better than No Action