Search Engines–Google
Source: The Scotsman
Zero tolerance as Googol plans to take Google to court
From the article: “A dispute over a very large number of zeroes is threatening to distract attention from a $2.7 billion stock sale by the internet search engine Google. News of the deal has brought a threat of legal action from the family of Professor Edward Kasner, who invented the word “googol” in the 1930s to describe a very big number. He wrote about the concept in a 1940 book, describing a googol as the number one followed by a hundred zeroes. Kasner’s great-niece, Peri Fleisher, now insists that the US-based company has gained financially at the expense of the family. She said: “If we do have a legal right, we’re certainly going to exercise that. And now is the time.” However, experts in intellectual property said that bringing a successful legal action would be problematic. “It would be an uphill struggle to try to assert any legitimate claim,” said David Gourlay, a senior associate at the Dundas and Wilson Technology Group.”

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