The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.

Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.

I'd like to get to a state where people think that if you've Googled something, you've researched it, and otherwise haven't, and that's it.

The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.

Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.