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XeroCool writes "Alan Williamson got invited to BayCHI lecture at PARC by Marissa Mayer (Product Manager for Google) to talk about google and get the facts. They both were in a room and Alan got some good facts about Google. One fact was: The name 'Google' was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for 'Googol'."
Apache (Score:5, Interesting)
6 types of email users (Score:5, Interesting)
Some very interesting facts indeed.
But the one that really caught my attention was the one about the 6 types of e-mail users. I'd really like more info on that.
Anyone has any idea where to get more info on this? Still haven't found anything.
in the name... (Score:4, Interesting)
Googol
Goggol
Googgol
Gogool
All lookf airly similar and alot of hassle to for average idiot to recall. So if thisis true Google got lucky as hell.
Re:Apache (Score:2, Interesting)
So a misspelling isn't really the same as a cute pun.
Re:I dont think thats true (Score:3, Interesting)
Go to http://googol.com/ [googol.com].
That guy made it in 1995, they probably couldnt buy it and spelled the less creative 'google'.
Servers (Score:3, Interesting)
How many, specs, data centers.
People have guessed, and analyzed everything... but still no true official statement.
That's what I was really hoping for.
Still interesting though.
Re:Whaa?? (Score:3, Interesting)
3 types of email users - what are the others? (Score:4, Interesting)
Google's Scholar [google.com] found two papers citing THREE [tinyurl.com] types of email users
1) Users who don't file at all
2) Users who file frequently
3) Users who file infrequently
This paper cited a paper by Whittaker and Sidner, titled Email overload: exploring personal information management of email
It seems filing is the primary category, but I'm foxed about the other three. Any ideas?
It's not a spelling mistake, it's a trademark (Score:2, Interesting)
I had heard awhile back that "Google" is so named because you cannot solely trademark(TM) numbers or words expressing numbers.
Is this not the case?
unconscious grammar (Score:4, Interesting)
Paris in the
the spring.
Many people have to read that many times before they see the error, because the expression is familiar enogh that they merely recognize it from the familiar words, rather than actually parsing the words themselves. Unfortunately, this is a flaw deriving from the excellence of human communications recognition, tolerant of transmission errors. Tech can help address it (like putting black text on a different randomly colored background for each word, or parenthesis for each word, for "edge enhancement"), but it's really a bug in our technique.
Barney Google? (Score:5, Interesting)
Barney's horse Spark Plug was so popular that Sparky became an common sobriquet; indeed that is the source of Charles M. Schulz's nickname.
Google lives on in rare cameo appearances in the comic strip, generally known as "Snuffy Smith," whose full title is actually "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith"
New College Thing (Score:5, Interesting)
Plus, they gave out free pens and T-Shirts. The actual recruiting part took up about 10 minutes - only a brief mention of what it was like working at Google. Good presentation tho.
Re:3 types of email users - what are the others? (Score:3, Interesting)
But now with tools like Lookout, Google Desktop, and others, I can search my inbox in a split second. And thanks to these tools I'm now moving emails much less frequently and have even collapsed some folders down, to simplify the hierarchy overall. I just search now. I would now call myself a user who files infrequently.
One consequence is that the number of emails in my Inbox keeps growing. My goal used to be to keep it under 200 emails (I'd be sure to file away enough emails to keep it under that limit), but I'm currently over 1,600. No motivation to file away, just search and --boom--, there it is.
I'm Feeling Lucky Quicksearch (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Kogal? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Whaa?? (Score:3, Interesting)
HTML 4 isn't crap at all. It cooperates very well with CSS to make pages with easy to control layout and reasonable seperation of content from layout, which makes broad changes to a site's style far easier than sorting through dozens of individual pages changing 'td width="120"' to 'td width="121"', when you find that your