Googol is a mathematical term that refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeros. It was coined by Milton Sirotta, the nine-year-old nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, who was writing a book about large numbers.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, were inspired by the word "googol" when they were brainstorming names for their search engine. They liked the idea of the word representing a vast amount of information, which is what their search engine aimed to provide.
They originally misspelled "googol" as "Google" in their initial company proposal, and the name stuck.
So, while the word "Google" itself doesn't have a specific meaning, it's a playful take on the mathematical term "googol", representing the vastness of information that their search engine could access.