After a little experimenting I managed to pitch the ball which broke in a certain direction then with more or less the same delivery make the next ball go in the opposite direction!" The object was to bounce the ball on a table so that your opponent sitting opposite could not catch it. The inventor of the googly, Bernard Bosanquet, wrote: "about the year 1897 I was playing a game with a tennis ball, known as `Twisti-Twosti.' Now here is a little known fact - the first known googling in international cricket was in USA. Such a delivery is also called a googly, a doosra or, in Australia, the wrong 'un.Ĭ'mon Larry and Sergey, you certainly must know what we mean. This is accomplished by turning the wrist over at the moment of delivery far enough to alter the axis of spin, so that a ball which normally delivered would break from leg, breaks from the off. So what is this original meaning of google, you ask? It is an off-break when bowled by a right-arm leg spin bowler. And the term was used widely across USA and overseas. Yes, google revolutionalized cricket bowling long before it revolutionized the internet. Whatever the reason for Page and Brin deciding on the Google name, at Deamcricket, we consider it our duty to gently educate them that they used a cricket term that predates their use of the name for their amazing search engine.
"You end up finding documents with misspelled words, which is not really what you wanted." On February 12, 2003, talking about search complexity, Page told students at Stanford that "It turns out that most people misspell some things." He confessed that he also had trouble with spelling. And it also helped that the domain name was still available. The word "googol" was at the top but according to Page, they had an incorrect spelling. So he and Brin looked through Web sites and URLs before finally stumbling across a list of very large numbers. Page and Brin had originally named their search engine 'Backrub.' "We realized BackRub wasn't the world's greatest name," Page recounted in 2003.
But I believe that this is just a clever spin (forgive the pun) on a word that has always meant a type of spin delivery in the game of cricket. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's founders, want you to believe that the name of their company is either a misspelling or a play on the word googol - a mathematical term denoting 1 followed by 100 zeros. In 2006, Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary helpfully added the verb, "google" to mean "the use of Google." But let us not forget that the definitive Oxford English Dictionary had described google as "the act of delivering a googly" as early as 1907.
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