Talk:Barney Google
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[edit] "Was"?
King Features is under the impression that they're still producing it [1]. -- Cyrius|✎ 02:08, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
[edit] King Features vs the Google Search Engine
Was there ever an arrangement between the two companies? 4.235.66.213 02:44, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
According to the company itself, "Google" comes from a misspelling of "Googol", which is short for 1 x 10^100 (1 followed by 100 zeroes). It makes sense, since it's a search engine that returns a high number of results; even before I read about it I suspected that this was the origin, although I never understood why they spelled it "GoogLE" insteaad of "GoogOL".
Piotr
[edit] Error in dates ?
The article states that the comic strip began in 1919, but near the end of the article, we find that, "Sometime between 1901 and 1906, an artist chiseling grotesques on the walls....". Is this a mistake?
- Rfreedman
