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Contents 1 "Was"? 2 King Features vs the Google Search Engine 3 Error in dates ? 4 Unsourced info removed

[edit] "Was"?

King Features is under the impression that they're still producing it [1]. -- Cyrius|✎ 02:08, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] King Features vs the Google Search Engine

Was there ever an arrangement between the two companies? 4.235.66.213 02:44, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

According to the company itself, "Google" comes from a misspelling of "Googol", which is short for 1 x 10^100 (1 followed by 100 zeroes). It makes sense, since it's a search engine that returns a high number of results; even before I read about it I suspected that this was the origin, although I never understood why they spelled it "GoogLE" insteaad of "GoogOL".

Piotr

[edit] Error in dates ?

The article states that the comic strip began in 1919, but near the end of the article, we find that, "Sometime between 1901 and 1906, an artist chiseling grotesques on the walls....". Is this a mistake?

- Rfreedman

[edit] Unsourced info removed

I (at least tentatively) removed this paragraph:

The strip was not the inspiration for the name of the popular Google search engine (which was so labeled after the similar word googol). However, when the mathematician and Columbia University professor Edward Kasner was told in the late 1930s to devise a name for a very large number, he asked his nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, if he had any suggestions. The youth then spoke the name of the comic strip when it was at a peak of popularity, and Kasner introduced the word "Googol" in his book, Mathematics and the Imagination (1940). Milton Sirotta died in 1981.

It's unsourced, and contradicts the article Googol, which claims (with a source) that the term was coined by Hardik Upadhyay, not by Kasner or a nephew of his. Anyone have any info backing this up? -Elmer Clark (talk) 07:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)