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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