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Dear friend! 11.03.2021.

I’m one of the people who uses Google’s search engine on a daily basis and I don’t know how it got there.

How did Google get its name and who are the people who founded this search engine?

The answer to this question is probably known to less than one percent of the users of the most popular Internet search engine. The word that each of us utters several times every day, the word that represents the name of a search engine without which it would be impossible to imagine everyday life today, the word that our keyboards most often "suffer" from, is certainly - Google. However, very few people know why the most famous internet search site got that name.

In the late 1990s, Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin created a search engine that they first called "BackRub" because it searched for backlinks.

Lawrence "Larry" Page, born March 26, 1973, is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. Together with Sergej Brin, he is a co-founder of Google. According to Forbes magazine, Paige was ranked 13th on the list of the richest Americans in 2012, with a fortune of 20.3 billion dollars. Paige is known for creating the Page Rank algorithm, which is the basis of the search algorithm used by the Google web browser.

Sergei Mikhailovich Brin, born on August 21, 1973, is an Internet entrepreneur.

Born in Russia, Brin studied computer science and mathematics before he founded Google with Larry Page. Brin is the technology director at Google and is estimated to have approximately 16.6 billion US dollars, which makes him the 26th richest person in the world. And together with Larry Page, he is the 9th richest person in the United States. Brin was born in Moscow to a Jewish family, as the son of Mikhail and Yevgenia Brin. His parents graduated in mathematics from Moscow State University. When he was 6, his family moved to the United States. Brin finished elementary school in the small town of Adelphi in Maryland, but his parents also taught him. His father was a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland and instilled in his son an interest in mathematics. In September 1990, after graduating from Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Brin enrolled at the University of Maryland to study computer science and mathematics. He graduated in May 1993.

After founding the company, they soon realized that "BackRub" was the name of the worst technology company in the history of technology companies, and they decided to change the name.

Google is a mispronounced word Google (Google), so the name of the most famous site in the world is derived from Google. However, Paige and Brin were forced to change the Google term, because that domain on the Internet was already occupied, and after several combinations, Google seemed the most attractive to them.

Google is a large number, written in mathematics as "10100", it is the number 1 with 100 zeros. The term was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirota, the nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner, who later explained the concept of such a large number in his work "Mathematics and Imagination", published in 1940.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as by scientists. The name "googol" was invented by a child (Dr. Kasner's nine-year-old nephew) who was asked to think up a name for a very big number, namely, 1 with a hundred zeros after it. He was very certain that this number was not infinite, and therefore equally certain that it had to have a name. At the same time that he suggested "googol" he gave a name for an even larger number: "Googolplex." A googolplex is much larger than a googol, but is still finite, as the inventor of the name was quick to point out. It was suggested that a googolplex should be 1, followed by writing zeros until you get tired.

This is a description of what would happen if one actually tried to write a googolplex, but different people get tired at different times and it would never do to have Carnera a better mathematician than Dr. Einstein, simply because he had more endurance. The googolplex then, is a specific finite number, with so many zeros after the 1 that the number is a googol. A googolplex is much bigger than a googol. You will get some idea of ​​the size of this very large but finite number from the fact that there would not be enough room to write it, if you went to the farthest star, touring all the nebulae and putting down zeros every inch of the way .

The number itself is not so much in use (practically only in the theory of mathematics), and it gained its greatest popularity precisely with the emergence of the most famous Internet search engine.

Google can also be written in one of the following ways:1 гугол

= 10100

= 10.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000

One of the indicators of the "size" of the Google number is the fact that the number of elementary particles in the visible part of the universe ranges between 1079 and 1081.

Sources National geography. Images taken from Google