(January 16, 2005) - XeroCool writes "Alan Williamson got invited to BayCHI lecture at PARC by Marissa Mayer (Product Manager for Google) to talk about google and get the facts. They both were in a room and Alan got some good facts about Google. One fact was: The name 'Google' was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for 'Googol'."

(January 13, 2005) - A project manager at Google (GOOG: news, chart, profile) spoke at a Silicon Valley meeting Wednesday and said the addition of a "Did you mean" feature to Google's search page had instantly doubled usage of the site. Marissa Mayer also told the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM SIGCHI the "I feel lucky" button is rarely used. In trials, though, it was found that removing that option would compromise "the Google experience," Alan Williamson reported on his blog. Mayer also said Google has the largest network of translators in the world. Williamson's Weblog report.