Google is a misspelling of googol, a mathematical term for 10^100 coined by a nine-year-old boy in 1920 — the company name was chosen to represent the vast scale of information on the internet.
To search for information on the internet, especially using the Google search engine.
The company name Google is a misspelling of googol, the mathematical term for 10^100 (the number one followed by a hundred zeros). Googol was coined in 1920 by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner, who asked the boy to invent a name for a very large number. The founders of Google chose the name to represent the vast amount of information their search engine