what does it mean?

[col craddock]

Does Google mean GO (away and) OGLE,

[whiffey]

"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.

From here:
http://www.google.co.uk/corporate/index.html

[sir.prize]

Of the two above posts ^^^^^^^^^ - which one answered in the intended manner of AnswerBank and who was the obvious idiot?

[dave123456]

I thought the guys who set up Google meant to use Googol but just spelt it wrong.

[whiffey]

I would like to have been the idiot, but I see that the competition tonight is overwhelmingly turd-brained, so I played safe.

[Louisa 69]

It would depend on what you googled!!