Larry Page and his officemate Sean Anderson brainstorm a name for Page’s new company. Sean suggests, “How about Googolplex? You’re trying to make a search engine that indexes a huge amount of information. Googolplex is a huge number.” Larry likes the idea and counters, “Why don’t we try Googol?” He types in Google, misspelling it, but discovers it’s available as a domain, and registers it: www.google.com. The next morning, his colleague Tamara notices that it’s misspelled, but by then the domain is registered, and www.googol.com was already registered by someone else. Within days, the search engine becomes popular among Stanford students.
