The History of Google - What Are You Searching For?

Google was named after a googol - the name for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros - found in the book Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner and James Newman. To Google's founders the name represents the immense amount of information that a search engine has to sift through. Photo Credit: Google Co-Founders Sergey Brin & Larry Page provided by Google Inc.