2.     Google                                                                                                                
        1. noun, the premier internet search engine; 2. verb, to obtain information using it

        Where does the word "Google" come from?  (choose the one best answer)

A.    Comes from "goggle"(s), worn to safely enable staring directly at / into something.
B.    Inventive spelling for "googol," a math term for a 1 followed by a hundred zeroes.
C.    Derives from "gaggle," the collective noun designating a great multitude of geese.
D.    Only thing Larry and Sergey had in common was Barney Google & Snuffy Smith


    

Codenamed BackRub in 1996 (it analyzed back-links to web sites) Google was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in June of 2006.

Playing off of "googol" itself a neologism coined in 1930 by 9-year old Milton Sirotta whose uncle Ed Kasner was a math wiz, it reflects the company's mission to organize everything.

SUN founder and angel investor Andy Bechtolsheim must have known that googol.com had already been registered by Tim Beauchamp in 1995 because he made his check for $100,000 payable to "Google Inc"  -- so B is correct.



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