Google

World-Wide Web The World-Wide Web search engine that

indexes the greatest number of web pages - over two billion by

December 2001 and provides a free service that searches this

index in less than a second.

The site's name is apparently derived from "googol", but

note the difference in spelling.

The "Google" spelling is also used in "The Hitchhikers Guide

to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, in which one of Deep

Thought's designers asks, "And are you not," said Fook,

leaning anxiously foward, "a greater analyst than the

Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and

Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single

dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand

blizzard?"

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(2001-12-28)