A googolplex is the number 1 followed by a googol of zeros the Googleplex is the Mountain View, California headquarters of Google. Two related words, googolplex and googleplex, are also commonly confused. (The search engine’s name was inspired by the number: the founders of Google chose the name to reflect their mission “to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.”) You can remember that the number is spelled googol by remembering that a googol has l ots of o’s. Google, on the other hand, is the name of a search engine as well as a verb that refers to searching the Internet using the Google search engine. That number is a googol, so named by Milton Sirotta, the nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner, who was working with large numbers like 10 100. Google is the word that is more common to us now, and so it is sometimes mistakenly used as a noun to refer to the number 10 100. The verb google and the noun googol are commonly confused because they have similar pronunciations.
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