How Google Inc. got its name by James O. Ogle The founder of Google Inc. named Sergie Brin, was a student at Stanford University in 1997 who had designed a search engine program. Sergie Brin was trying and having trouble to sell his program to become successful, and he was unsure how to do that. Until he discovered the virtual USA Parliament. I am James Orlando Ogle, who started the USA Parliament in 1995 after running for Governor of California in 1994 on a platform of state voting reform through pure proportional representation (PR). I had been debating computer scientists and programmers in Usenet between 1992 and 1995 when this took place. Im not a programmer, Im an artist, so I was unique in Usenet, which was like a worldwide chat room where each newsgroup was named for the particular subject in the chat such as the one I would post which was then named alt.politics.elections. I was living in Monterey in 1997, and Sergie Brin (and Larry Paige?) were living a short drive 2 hour away from my art studios; Art & Jazz Studios on the Row. The non-profit art business had a multi-colored logo which I made from a light box and different colored theater gels behind each letter, which hung in the window of our studios overlooking Cannery Row, Monetery California. It was October 1997 when Sergie Brin was surfing the internet looking for activity and he picked up my activity about the virtual USA Parliament. Back then if someone posted a message and no one responded, then that message was considered boring, so since my comment thread had been going for three years by that time, that was considered an interesting and successful thread. Sergie Brin was looking for the juice. That juice was an ongoing three-year conversation about pure proportional representation. He joined the conversation and typed a question and asked; What is a joogle? A reply by a friend was; I dont know what a joogle is, but a google is a number. A week later Sergie Brin returned to the USA Parliaments thread and posted an announcement that he had named his search engine program google (misspelling the number googol) and he invited everyone to come try it out. But he either doesnt want you to know how he got that idea for the name of his search engine from my logo, or else he forgot. He had later said that the name google was voted on. I find that very hard to believe considering the short period between asking about my logo and the announcement of his new brand which he had derived from my name. Prime Minister Igor Chodov [Libertarian], a Russian computer scientist, and I, were helping Sergie Brin with his project at the time as I recall. Yet, shortly after he started the new search engine, he directed all search traffic about proportional representation away from the USParliament.org site because one of my political opponents, Cameron Spitzer, owner of greens.org, had emailed him a request to do that and he happily complied. I saw Cameron Spitzer post a message in the newsgroup to that effect. Here is an early post I made in Usenet about pure proportional representation shortly after my run for Governor of California when I was on the ballot to promote state voting reform through pure proportional representation: https://groups.google/forum/?hl=en#!searchin/alt.politics.reform/james$20ogle|sort:relevance/alt.politics.reform/P1LliQ2oeTA/_PLiYuOq3DcJ [1] Notice how the email address joogle@cruzio is censored, probably because Google Inc. had bought the usenet called DejaNews and gone in and deleted the original conversation too. Most of the conversations Ive written about have probably been deleted by Google Inc., maybe they exists somewhere else, but there are plenty of people who are still around who can vouch the truth of my version. So I thought Id email everyone and remind them how MY personal logo inspired a multi-billion dollar gateway (but Im still a loser). ;) I had filed to run for President in 1996: cnn/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/list3.shtml [2] The domain google was registered in October 1997. Now Im running for President in 2016 and my campaign slogan logo is Go Ogle/Your name 2016: usparliament.org/google2016.php [3] -- A coalition of Americans united for the purpose of establishing truly representative government at usparliament.org
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:02:00 +0000
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