How Google was named…
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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October 25th, 2007 at 9:13 am
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…..
October 25th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Very cool
October 25th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Is it base on a true story =)
October 25th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
[...] after I saw a video on a professor at Stanford explaining how the name was created or found I am not so sure if either [...]
October 25th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
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.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Jan: this guy worked with the guys who started Google. The story is real.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
This is nice. Thank you for sharing the link.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
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?
October 26th, 2007 at 3:35 am
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
October 26th, 2007 at 6:13 am
It’s not just a bastardization of the word googol then?
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October 26th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Hasn’t this already been discussed to death before?
October 26th, 2007 at 11:27 am
@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.
October 27th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
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.