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Comic panels taken out of comics so we can make fun of them!! We love the golden age stuff!

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Sundar Pichai tests new stealth marketing technology. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So this is where they got the name from

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Funnily enough, this actually isn't terribly far from the truth.

"Google" is officially a misspelling of "googol", which is the name for the number 10^100^.

But then "googol" was coined as a word by a 9-year-old in 1920 (to be used by his mathematician uncle). And it's possible that this 9-year-old was inspired by the contemporary comic strip character Barney Google:

So, "Google" might be a misspelling of a misspelling of "Google". 🙃

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you for the explanation! I love being smacked with some niche facts

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

OK what’s the context