How Google was named…

October 25, 2007 By

At minute 46 of this interview with Stanford University Researcher Marc Levoy he explains how the name “Google” came up — accidentally.

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  • http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/ paul

    Many years ago in Ireland a friend of mine who was a cook was showing me how to make a rue sauce, flower, butter, salt, milk and water. He called the goop Google, should have registered a trademark…..

  • http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/ paul

    Many years ago in Ireland a friend of mine who was a cook was showing me how to make a rue sauce, flower, butter, salt, milk and water. He called the goop Google, should have registered a trademark…..

  • http://tweettaze.com/ Ted

    Very cool

  • http://tweettaze.com Ted

    Very cool

  • fendybt2

    Is it base on a true story =)

  • fendybt2

    Is it base on a true story =)

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  • http://www.earclops.com/ Jan

    not sure if I believe this guy. I always thought it had soemthing to do with “go + ogle”. Made sense to me and this happeneed about 1 month ago. Not sure if anything ever thought of this.

  • http://www.earclops.com Jan

    not sure if I believe this guy. I always thought it had soemthing to do with “go + ogle”. Made sense to me and this happeneed about 1 month ago. Not sure if anything ever thought of this.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Jan: this guy worked with the guys who started Google. The story is real.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Jan: this guy worked with the guys who started Google. The story is real.

  • http://sketching.wordpress.com/ sketching

    This is nice. Thank you for sharing the link.

  • http://sketching.wordpress.com/ sketching

    This is nice. Thank you for sharing the link.

  • Bob

    Scoble, I know you’re big into web services.
    During my evening web surfing, I visited Channel 10, and found out that Microsoft just launched this thing called “Live Search 411″.
    Here’s the MSDN blog:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2007/10/19/announcing-live-search-411-1-800-call-411.aspx

    Here’s the official site:
    http://www.livesearch411.com/

    To my knowledge, it’s unique. Maybe you could do some interviews with the team?

  • Bob

    Scoble, I know you’re big into web services.
    During my evening web surfing, I visited Channel 10, and found out that Microsoft just launched this thing called “Live Search 411″.
    Here’s the MSDN blog:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2007/10/19/announcing-live-search-411-1-800-call-411.aspx

    Here’s the official site:
    http://www.livesearch411.com/

    To my knowledge, it’s unique. Maybe you could do some interviews with the team?

  • http://searchengines.wordpress.com/ searchengines

    it is best to use a video service that allows users to skip to the portion of the video they want to see.

    It is inconsiderate to advertise a tiny portion of a long video – that mandates watching the entire video.

    At the very least put up a transcript – not every one can take 46 minutes out of their busy day to concentrate on a video just to get one fact

  • http://searchengines.wordpress.com/ searchengines

    it is best to use a video service that allows users to skip to the portion of the video they want to see.

    It is inconsiderate to advertise a tiny portion of a long video – that mandates watching the entire video.

    At the very least put up a transcript – not every one can take 46 minutes out of their busy day to concentrate on a video just to get one fact

  • http://www.sciencebase.com sciencebase

    It’s not just a bastardization of the word googol then?

    db

  • http://www.sciencebase.com/ sciencebase

    It’s not just a bastardization of the word googol then?

    db

  • http://www.macewan.org/ macewan

    Hasn’t this already been discussed to death before?

  • http://www.macewan.org/ macewan

    Hasn’t this already been discussed to death before?

  • http://iphone-obsessed.blogspot.com/ Orville Chomer

    @searchengines: When the video displays, click pause and wait for the video to load (check progress bar). This takes maybe 3 or 4 minutes but takes much less time than watching the whole video. Then you can reposition the play spot on the time-line with your mouse just fine. I did it with this video actually.

  • http://iphone-obsessed.blogspot.com/ Orville Chomer

    @searchengines: When the video displays, click pause and wait for the video to load (check progress bar). This takes maybe 3 or 4 minutes but takes much less time than watching the whole video. Then you can reposition the play spot on the time-line with your mouse just fine. I did it with this video actually.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Troy Ramirez

    Would some kind soul just comment on what Levoy says in the video regarding the name Google? I (and others who are having trouble watching the video) would much appreciate it.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Troy Ramirez

    Would some kind soul just comment on what Levoy says in the video regarding the name Google? I (and others who are having trouble watching the video) would much appreciate it.