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The word Google is derived from the misspelling of the work ‘googol’, a mathematical term meaning 1 followed by 100 zeros.
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Although not for sale, Google estimates that an ad on it’s homepage would cost $10 million dollars!
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Later, in 2002, Yahoo tried to buy them for $3 billion but at that point Google turned them down.
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Yahoo turned down the chance to buy Google for $1 million in 1997. Today it is worth $200 billion, Yahoo just $20 billion.
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The original name of Google was Backrub. They called it that because the algorithm ranked pages based on how many “back links” a page had.
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