![]() Sean and Larry were in their office, using the whiteboard, trying to think up a good name-something that related to the indexing of an immense amount of data. David Koller, another Stanford classmate of Page who was around at the dawn of Google recalls the story behind Google’s name on his personal Stanford site: ![]() However, the two-“o” “Google” we’re familiar with today is the result of an accidental misspelling by one of Page’s classmates, Sean Anderson. Cofounder, and current sad CEO Larry Page decided that it would be the perfect name for his new company as it reflected the nearly unimaginable vastness the Web. The word googol (note the third “o” and the lack of an “e”) is a mathematical term for the number 10 to the 100th power (or a 1 followed by 100 zeros).
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