The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol,"[43][44] which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros (although Enid Blyton used the phrase "Google Bun" in The Magic Faraway Tree (published 1941), The Folk of the Faraway Tree(published 1946),[45] and called a clown character "Google" in Circus Days Again (published 1942),[46] and there is also the Googleplex Star Thinker from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). Having found its way increasingly into everyday language, the verb, "google," was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet."[47][48] The use of the term itself reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.[44] In November 2009, the Global Language Monitor named "Google" No. 7 on its Top Words of the Decade list.[49] In December 2009 the BBC highlighted Google in their Portrait of the Decade (Words) series.[50]
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