Google has a funky name but do you know how it got it?

The name Google came from a mathematics word “googol”. In 1920 American mathematician Edward Kasner asked his nephew Milton Sirotta to help him choose a name for a number that had 100 zeros. The name that Sirotta supplied was “googol” and Kasner decided to use the term. The term formally entered the lexicon in 1940 when Kasner co-wrote a book called “Mathematics and the Imagination” in which he used the word to describe a number with 100 zeros.
In 1998, when Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin were looking to name the company, they decided on word “googol”. However, they decided to modify it a little, getting rid of the third “o” and adding an “e”. And so we got Google.