[ILUG] Ubuntu Network Conflict

[Frank Murphy]

On 09/07/09 22:43, Gerard Cunningham wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 20:25 +0100, David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
>> Gerard Cunningham wrote:
>>> For the record, google was a word before the search engine came along.
>>> I remember learning it one Christmas when I was about eight, courtesy of
>>> the Guinness Book of Records.
>>>
>>
>>
>> You may be thinking of googol.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol
>>
>> Actually, it's been claimed that's what Google meant to use, but they 
>> couldn't spell:
>>
>> http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html
>>
> 
> 
> I remember the spelling as Google, but then again, maybe I can't spell
> too.
> 

Google was a word down here, where we get the blaas.
It meant ya were gawking at a wan, with a wayward eye.


Regards,

Frank