They adopted the name Google in early 1997, in a tribute to scale, a play on the number known as a googol--a one followed by a hundred zeros.

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The denizens of the company headquarters breezily refer to it as the Googleplex, that being the word for the unimaginably large number defined as a one followed by a googol of zeros.

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The universe does not contain a googol atoms.

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