Google sorts billions of bits of information for its users. Here are some little-known bits of information about Google:
* Google’s name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, “Mathematics and the Imagination” by Kasner and James Newman. Google’s play on the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
Have you ever received one of those e-mails regarding funny things that you can do with the Google search engine, like, for example, typing “miserable failure” and see what comes up in first place?
Well, this guy has received, or done his research on many of them, and made a video of all of them. Read the rest of this entry »

