Monday, March 04, 2019

Google Vs Barney Google

where did Google get their name?

the name of the search engine originated from a misspelling of the word "googol", the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information.

 and where did googol come from?
The term was coined in 1920 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta (1911–1981), nephew of U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner popularized the concept in his 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination.

so where did he get that idea? who knows: but one wonders if he didn't have this character in mind:
a famous comic strip in the early 1920s was Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. 

and BillyRose wrote this song about the character in 1923:


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so was google inspired by Barney Google? They claim not, but that didn't stop the comic strip's owners from suing the firm for copyright name infringement.



Googly eyes originally refers to the moving eyes of certain dolls back then:


but for humans, the original term for prominent bulging eyes was goggleyed: and it's use goes back to 1711.

bulging prominant eyes in medicine is sometimes just a variation of normal but also can be seen in thyroid disease, and is called exophthalmus.

hmm... did anyone check AOC's thyroid level?

/s

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update to my previous post on the green deal and the reality of farming: Here is a Barny Googe/snuffy smith take on the farm of the future:




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