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September 4 - Google Day

Googol

Google was initially doing 10,000 searches a day.  By December of its first year, Google was recognized as the search engine of choice in PC Magazine.  Today Google processes over one billion search requests a day.

When in the 1930s the American mathematician Dr Edward Kasner was trying to think of a name for an unimaginably large number, ten to the power of a hundred, he asked his nine-year-old nephew Milton Serotta for a suggestion, and googol was what he got. It has never really caught on in technical use, although it has spawned a compound of its own – the googolplex, ten to the power of a googol.

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