Mathematical and Algorithmic Foundations of the Internet

172 Mathematical and Algorithmic Foundations of the Internet

was chosen as a rewriting of googol, a word born from the mind of a little boy

who was asked by his grandfather to give a name to a number composed by a

one followed by a hundred zeros. This is more than the number of stars in the

sky, but the name sounds also similar to goggles, the aquatic lenses needed to

look into the vast ocean of the Web. The company started operating in 1998

in a garage in Menlo Park, California, making use of open source software.

After the success of Google all other search engines started using properties

of the Web graph to improve the quality of the answers through ...