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.

When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.

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.

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

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

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.