Consequences - Jazz, Charle Brown, and Maths: The Strange Origins of ‘Google’

[Gary Oswald]

Discuss @Thande 's latest article here

 

[Thande]

As I said at the end of the article, thanks to @Walpurgisnacht for inspiring this one.

 

[Walpurgisnacht]

As I said at the end of the article, thanks to @Walpurgisnacht for inspiring this one.

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Thank you very much, I feel pretty honoured to have (sort of) contributed here.

 

[OwenM]

This may be an urban legend, but I did hear that the reason for the misspelling was their first big investor only having heard it spoken out loud and so writing it down wrong on the cheque, and it being easier to change the company name.

 

[Arthur_Phuxache]

It all went wrong when they got rid of the exclamation mark.

 

[Thande]

This may be an urban legend, but I did hear that the reason for the misspelling was their first big investor only having heard it spoken out loud and so writing it down wrong on the cheque, and it being easier to change the company name.

Possible; I remember my best friend thinking the number was called a "gillion" when we were at school, due to only hearing it once and making it fit the more common name format.