Google is a misspelling of googol, which means 10 to the 100th power. The domain name was supposed to be googol.com, but the creator of the domain flunked. According to www.google.com, "Google's use of the term [Google] reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web." Google is also now a widely used verb meaning to search the internet for information about something or someone.