The Internet search engine Google was named after this number. The original founders were going for ‘Googol’, but ended up with ‘Google’ due to a spelling mistake. Larry Page: “Lucas Pereira: ‘You idiots, you spelled ”Googol“ wrong!’ But this was good, because google.com was available and googol.com was not. Now most people spell ‘Googol’ ‘Google’, so it worked out OK in the end.”