#ArunMaini @Mrwhosetheboss tells us Things We Didn't Know about #Google @Google, inspiring me to do a little more Searching (mostly on @Bing LoL) | @Wikipedia @FamilyTreeMag, possibly @davekoller, maybe @q_stanfordcompu

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Arun explains about-50 of Google's peculiarities in a video you can access through 'the bold word(s)' below; but first I want to teach you about those words. And I find you understand words better if you see 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum into their Foundation)
The word “Google” is built on the word #Googol (with influence from the verb-ending "-le"--as in Dribble or |Gobble or Struggle etc.--bringing up how Google is now a verb meaning 'do a search on Google.com' (or #DoAGoogle #GoogleIt) 
Actually, the -le (possibly influenced by the verb-ending) was a misspelling of 'Googol' when Sean Anderson looked-up the domain-name to see if he & Larry Page & Sergey Brin & Tamara Munzner & Lucas Pereira (and a few other graduate students in room 360 in Wing 3B of the Gates CS Building at Stanford University) could reserve that domain-name. 

("To Google" is also a Cricket-term in reference to a type of breaking ball (the #Googly))
The word "Googol (a 1 followed by a hundred 0's ... #Googolplex (10 to the power of Googol)) was a word invented by Edward Kasner & James R. Newman, proposed by Kasner's young nephew when they asked him to name an |Enormous Number---possibly inspired by the comic-strip character Barney Google. 
Ancestry.com couldn't find that surname, but they did have several names that resemble it---Googe, Coogle, Koogle, Bogle, Gole, Goodley, Ogle, Hogle, Geigle.

Of course, the Andrews Sisters' song "Barney Google" (written by the comic-strip's author) tells us that his name probably refers to his "goo-goo-googly eyes." 

As mentioned, the Googly is a Cricket-Bowler's Breaking-Ball (like a Baseball-Pitcher's Curveball ... it's also known as a #WrongUn, a #Bosey or #Bosie); but it's most likely connected to #GooGoo (in #GooGooEyes) in reference to the way |Amorous feelings make one's eyes |Goggle (Roll |Around), or it might be a shortening of Good Government (as the name of a movement to clean up municipal corruption in America's big cities), becoming slang that meant 'a |Naive Political Reformer' 

... or it's just baby-talk #GooGooGaGa

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a few words from Mr. Maini's descriptions
Backrub (as the search-engine's ranking-system was originally 'totally backlink-based'), Googleplex (the campus of Google's offices), Android, Patents, Google Glass & the Hand-Heart, GoogleSucks.com, Dots (not read), Loch Ness Monster, GMail, Tango/ARCore, Renewable Energy, Goat-Mowers, Heinous(? ... he pronounced it 'Hi-Anus,' but that might be a British thing), Alphabet (ABC.XYZ), Yahoo!'s Missed Opportunity
Looking for a little more about 'that surname,' I also found a bit about How to Refine Common Surname Searches on Google (familytreemagazine.com) (to help me find 'Google the surname' rather than 'Google the Site-Name')

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