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I've heard, though it may be just Internet rumor, and I've never been interested enough to try to verify it, that the founders of Google actually intended to call it Googol, but they misspelled the term. It might be true, but I suspect it of being an urban legend ("founders of hugely successful company couldn't spell its name!") and the real reason was a matter of inventing a name that could be trademarked.
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