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Google :
The World-Wide Web search engine that
indexes the greatest number of web pages - over two billion by
December 2001 and provides a free service that searches this
index in less than a second.
The site's name is apparently derived from "{googol", but
note the difference in spelling.
The "Google" spelling is also used in "The Hitchhikers Guide
to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, in which one of Deep
Thought's designers asks, "And are you not," said Fook,
leaning anxiously foward, "a greater analyst than the
Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and
Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single
dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand
blizzard?"
http://www.google.com/)">Home (http://www.google.com/).
(2001-12-28)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Google : v. [common] To search the Web using the Google search engine,
`http://www.google.com'. Google is highly esteemed among hackers for its
significance ranking system, which is so uncannily effective that many
hackers consider it to have rendered other search engines effectively
irrelevant. The name `google' has additional flavor for hackers because
most know that it was copied from a mathematical term for ten to the
hundredth power, famously first uttered as `googol' by a mathematician's
nine-year-old nephew.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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