EPISODE · Aug 21, 2021 · 18 MIN

Episode 100: Google

from Words for Granted - An etymology and linguistics podcast

Before Google was the name of one of the world's biggest tech companies, "googol" was an obscure math term that meant "ten to the one hundredth power". Five decades before the founding of Google, the word "googol" emerged spontaneously out of a conversation between an American mathematician and his nephew. Click here to listen to this month's FREE bonus episode on Patreon.

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