THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT GOOGLE – Marilyn Armstrong

11/01/201911/01/2019 / Marilyn Armstrong

I woke up this morning with an earworm. Not your normal earworm. Mine was a 1920s earworm. It was a song my mother sang often and for once, she actually got the words right. Ask any member of my family and they will assure you: my mother never ever remembered the words to any song — except this one. She would sing words from other songs to whatever melody was bouncing around in her head.

So I get up this morning and this is what I’m hearing, but without the scratches:

And by golly, the words I had in my head were dead on. Next, the obvious question arises:

How did Google get its name? – Mobilis In Mobile

The mysterious mysteries of the Internet!

You may have read this kind of “official answer: “Google derived its name from the word “googol”, a term coined by then nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner. … Google was named after Barney Google.”

Barney Google – The History

But will you ever feel the same way about Google again? I bet you won’t! And it all began with an early morning earworm!

16 thoughts on “THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT GOOGLE – Marilyn Armstrong”

Covert Novelist

11/01/2019 at 2:40 pm

holy god in heaven, I remember hearing that song!

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swo8

10/31/2019 at 3:50 pm

Is that the one where he keeps “googling along”?
Leslie

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  
  10/31/2019 at 4:26 pm
  
  Honestly, I don’t’ know. This really WAS before my time.
  
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  - swo8
    
    10/31/2019 at 7:54 pm
    
    I seem to remember … Barney Google, just keeps googling along …
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      
      10/31/2019 at 8:34 pm
      
      There were a fair number of Barney Google songs. That was just one. I think there were more and I’m pretty sure there were also more verses. You could look them up. I was just so happy to get that earworm out of my head.
      
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evilsquirrel13

10/31/2019 at 2:31 pm

Bigfoot style… I never knew there was any kind of a name for strips like that. You found an earworm, and I learned something about comic strip history…

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  
  10/31/2019 at 4:27 pm
  
  It’s a terrible earworm … but i didn’t know that was a comic drawing style either. So we both learned something new.
  
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angloswiss

10/31/2019 at 1:06 pm

I know that song, one of my dad’s repertoire. I also sort of grew up with it. Oh Marilyn, there are not many of us left today, but such memories are wonderful. I can hear my dad singing it now.

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  
  10/31/2019 at 1:35 pm
  
  And my mother. I think my mother sang or hummed ALL the time. I know a ton of songs from WW2 and even WW1 because she sang them. There aren’t many of us who remember. Even Garry had forgotten this one!
  
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  - angloswiss
    
    10/31/2019 at 2:21 pm
    
    And now it’s running through my head 🙂
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      
      10/31/2019 at 4:28 pm
      
      Listen to something else. It’s a terrible earworm.
      
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bwcarey

10/31/2019 at 12:50 pm

Marilyn, what an interesting story, you are a real sleuth, hope your enjoying good health, amen

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  
  10/31/2019 at 1:34 pm
  
  I just woke up with that song running through my head. I just had to look it up. I vaguely remembered it as a cartoon, but that was all.
  
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the twisted mouse

10/31/2019 at 12:48 pm

Interesting. Shame Google didn’t keep the font.

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  
  10/31/2019 at 1:20 pm
  
  I think they should have kept Barney, too 🙂
  
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  - the twisted mouse
    
    10/31/2019 at 2:47 pm
    
    Agreed 🙂
    
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