How did Google get its name?

Google, the popular search engine, gets its name from the mathematical term Googol. 
 

The founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were Stanford students when they started developing this new search engine. 
 

The founders were in search of a catchy name to appeal to a broader audience. 
 

During brainstorming sessions, someone proposed the name ‘Googol,’ which is a mathematical term representing the number 10 raise to the power of 100. 
 

When an expert searched for the availability of the domain name, they misspelled the name and instead searched for ‘Google.’
 

This little spelling error in the name was liked by the founders more than ‘Googol.’ Eventually, the search engine was named as Google. 
 

The term ‘googol’ was coined in 1920 by Milton Sirota, who was 9 years old at the time and the nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner.