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Google Nov 1st 2012, 15:47 Undo revision 18681104 by 76.173.203.137 - but "googol" has got nothing to do with large eyes! ← Older revision Revision as of 15:47, 1 November 2012 Line 6: Line 6:   ===Etymology===   ===Etymology===     − The word was first created by Billy DeBeck in 1919, when he created the comic strip characters [[Barney Google]] and Snuffy Smith. Decades later, dolls with eyes that rolled in their heads were referred to as googly-eyed, which probably derived from the song, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOHg5uuZjwY Barney Google], recorded on Edison Disc in 1923 by Billy Jones and Ernest Hare. The company, Google, was named after a mispelling of [[googol]], one followed by a hundred zeros, supposed to indicate that the site wants to provide a huge amount of information, which itself was a misspelling of the original word. + The company was named after a mispelling of [[googol]], one followed by a hundred zeros, supposed to indicate that the site wants to provide a huge amount of information.       ===Pronunciation===   ===Pronunciation===

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