BackRub OR Google?!

Did you know that Google was actually called “Backrub” at one point. WTH?! Then, they were going to call it “Googol” as in the number, but a misspelling gave us the company we know today. Thank goodness for poor grammar!

Oh, and for the record, a googol is the large number 10 100. In decimal notation, it is written as the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeroes: 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.

Sure glad someone in marketing got to them before I started looking up backrubs on googol.

(Source: The awesome folks over at TheCoolist - https://lnkd.in/geWcmEqy)