Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order

Re:Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results cit... by Zenbit_UX on Thursday December 02, 2021 @05:44PM (#29423871)

This comment is so unrelatable to me, every kid over the age of 7 when I was in school knew what a google was or better yet, a googleplex. This was also in the 90s so it predates the search engines popularity by a good bit.

It was, simply put, the biggest named number anyone knew and was frequently used as such in arguments... e.g. I watched that movie 1000 times! Oh ya? Well I watched it a google times.

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Re:Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results cit... by post_from_work on Thursday December 02, 2021 @10:35PM (#29426362)

>>>every kid over the age of 7 when I was in school knew what a google was or better yet, a googleplex. This was also in the 90s so it predates the search engines popularity by a good bit.

Same here, as someone who was in high school in the late 90s and switched from AskJeeves/Yahoo/Altavista to Google around ~2000, part of the appeal was "Somebody named a search engine after the biggest number meme we know? AND it's fast? AND it gives good results? Lemme check this out..."

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Re:Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results cit... by Terretta on Friday December 03, 2021 @12:51AM (#29427028)

googol = 10^100

// did that get auto-corrected? if so, ironic, as it’s said "Google" was an accidental misspelling of "googol" by Sean Anderson back in ‘97…

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html

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