1. According to the official Google website (https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/), Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google, chose the name "Google" as a play on the word "googol," which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by 100 zeros. They aimed to reflect their mission of organizing the vast amount of information available on the web.
2. In an interview with Barbara Walters for ABC News (https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/larry-page-sergey-brin-chose-google-68937762), Larry Page mentioned that they chose the name "Google" as a variation of the word "googol" to represent their ambitious goal of providing access to a large amount of information.
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List 2 reasons for why they chose the name Google.
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