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Word: googol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...served them up in a simple, quick-loading, no-frills format. It was a stone-cold category killer. Brin and Page called their search engine Google. "It was fun, it was short, it was reasonably easy to spell," Page remembers. "We like doing big things, and googol [the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros] is a huge number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Search And Destroy | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

...equal-opportunity keening about Charlie's Angels and Tomb Raiders. The first series is a kung-fu pajama party; the giga-giggling Angels are girls, not adult women. Katharine Hepburn had more vim than the three of them put together. And Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft, for all her googol-24-36 figure, is emotionally not a woman at all. She's a rumbustious guy whose response to nearly any challenge is to open the artillery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Babes In Boyland | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...largest and hippest search engine. In just two years it has gained a reputation for uncanny speed and accuracy, delivering exactly what you're looking for in a fraction of a second. The site now does this 40 million times a day--not quite a googol (10100, which is 1 followed by 100 zeroes) or the much larger googolplex (1010100), but a number achieved without spending a penny on a TV or newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Google | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...techno-geek in me is a killer search engine that finds just what I'm looking for, and fast. That's why Google has made it to the top of my bookmark file. The engine was developed by two Stanford Ph.D. students and named after the mathematical term googol, which stands for 10[100th power]. The great thing about Google is that it works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaga over Google | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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