October 21, 2005
A Swedish couple have chosen to name their first born son Google, after the well-used search engine.
The Swedish tax authority, which normally frowns on unusal names, had no objections. "They just thought it was funny," Elias told the newspaper.
Elias Kai, quoted in The Local, an English-Langugage Swedish Newspaper, says he's a "great fan" of the search engine, but the name means more to him than that, "the word means 1 followed by 100 zeroes, and I want my son to have lots of friends". Elias is in fact mistakenly referring to the word Googol.
Google's weblog on hearing the news said "We wish him long life and good health, and hope his schoolmates aren't too hard on him".
Google Kai already had his own website, at http://www.google-kai.com/
(pub. domain)
A Swedish couple have chosen to name their first born son Google, after the well-used search engine.
The Swedish tax authority, which normally frowns on unusal names, had no objections. "They just thought it was funny," Elias told the newspaper.
Elias Kai, quoted in The Local, an English-Langugage Swedish Newspaper, says he's a "great fan" of the search engine, but the name means more to him than that, "the word means 1 followed by 100 zeroes, and I want my son to have lots of friends". Elias is in fact mistakenly referring to the word Googol.
Google's weblog on hearing the news said "We wish him long life and good health, and hope his schoolmates aren't too hard on him".
Google Kai already had his own website, at http://www.google-kai.com/
(pub. domain)
