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  2. History of Google - Wikipedia

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    Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg were cited by Page and Brin as being critical to the development of Google. Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd later co-authored with Page and Brin the first paper about the project, describing PageRank and the initial prototype of the Google search engine, published in 1998. Héctor García-Molina and Jeff Ullman were also cited as contributors to the project ...

  3. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

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    A billion is called arab and hundred billion is called kharab. In Malayalam, a lakh is called ലക്ഷം laksham and a crore is called കോടി kodi. In Marathi, a lakh is called लाख/लक्ष lākh and a crore is called कोटी koṭi or करोड karoḍ, and an arab (10 9) is called अब्ज abja.

  4. Google - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, they changed the name to Google; the name of the search engine was a misspelling of the word googol, [23] [40] [41] a very large number written 10 100 (1 followed by 100 zeros), picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information. [42]

  5. How Much Is Google Worth? - AOL

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    The two met at Stanford in 1995 and collaborated on a search engine called Backrub. Google is a play on the word “googol,” which is a one followed by 100 zeros. The name was a great summary of ...

  6. Google Search - Wikipedia

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    Google Search (also known simply as Google or Google.com) is a search engine operated by Google. It allows users to search for information on the Web by entering keywords or phrases. Google Search uses algorithms to analyze and rank websites based on their relevance to the search query. It is the most popular search engine worldwide.

  7. Googol - Wikipedia

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    To put in perspective the size of a googol, the mass of an electron, just under 10 −30 kg, can be compared to the mass of the visible universe, estimated at between 10 50 and 10 60 kg. [5] It is a ratio in the order of about 10 80 to 10 90 , or at most one ten-billionth of a googol (0.00000001% of a googol).

  8. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name.

  9. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    "A base is a natural number B whose powers (B multiplied by itself some number of times) are specially designated within a numerical system." [1]: 38 The term is not equivalent to radix, as it applies to all numerical notation systems (not just positional ones with a radix) and most systems of spoken numbers. [1]