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50 Things You Didn't Know About Google
The search engine was originally named BackRu...
50 Things You Didn't Know About Google
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The search engine was originally named BackRub, but Page and Brin decided to change the moniker to the word googol, which translates to the digit 1 followed by a hundred zeroes: playing off the suggestion of infinite search results.
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