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by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner who popularized the concept in his 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination. A googol has no particular significance in mathematics, but is useful when comparing with other very large quantities. Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California. Originally they nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub". Eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol" which was picked to signify that the search engine wants to provide large quantities of information for people. The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. I n May 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed one billion for the first time. MISCELLANY C-note (Am inf) - сотенная бумажка; купюра достоинством в 100 долларов C is the Roman numeral for 100; a piece of paper American money that is worth 100 dollars: Joe took a wad of bills out of his pocket, peeled off a C-note and handed it over. Empty numbers - пустые числа (придуманные числа, образованные с помощью реально существующих суффиксов, ср. русск. «Надцатый раз твержу одно и то же») Colloquial English has a small vocabulary of empty numbers that can be employed when there is 133