<![CDATA[The $160 billion typo - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[The $160 billion typo - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[The $160 billion typo]]> @ddanger: That's entirely incorrect. Page and Brin were using the name "Google" for their school project long before Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check to "Google Inc." That forced them to incorporate Google -- not to change the spelling of the name.

Owen Thomas

]]> <![CDATA[The $160 billion typo]]> "Sean, I feel your spelling pain."

-- Waynela M. Bright

sstave

]]> <![CDATA[The $160 billion typo]]> i have to call bullshit on this. actually they found ivestment in some guy from sun microsystems, he wrote them a cheque on the spot for $100k only he spelt the name wrong, google instead of googol. in fact larry is on film stating this fact. they incorporated pretty sharpish to cash the money.

ddanger

]]> <![CDATA[The $160 billion typo]]> @Wayne
If that kind of "spelling pain" can name stuff like Google, let me in on it!

huntermunkey

]]> <![CDATA[The $160 billion typo]]> Please oh please tell us what certain part?

billsbill

]]> <![CDATA[The $160 billion typo]]> Ten or so years ago a friend told me about Google. Immediately I thought the name was derived from "go ogle", which is what you could do with this powerful new search facility.

jhelkins

]]> <![CDATA[The $160 billion typo]]> A perk of being named Google is that the word googol refers to a certain part of the female anatomy in Farsi. The would have been even more popular in the coveted Iranian search market.

samfind

]]> <![CDATA[The $160 billion typo]]> Sean Anderson writes us to point out that Google's market capitalization is now more than $200 billion. Of course. But we were discounting all the oddly spelled acquisitions like Jaiku for which Anderson can't take credit.

Owen Thomas

]]> <![CDATA[The $160 billion typo]]> Sean, I feel your spelling pain.

waynelambright

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