How Big is a Googol -- Google's Namesake?

We interviewed attendees at the Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference while they were waiting for a bus to the Google Dance. We asked: "A Googol is actually a number. How big is it?"

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[endlessmountain]

If the governments keep complaining that they can't get funding, and that africans are starving and all they do with their fiat money is print money, why can't they print a 1 GOOGOL dollar bill and that piece of paper would fix everything!!!

I guess we need to back it by something, which has not been done since we went off the gold standard in '71

[futon520]

googol is 1000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000

[EeveEH]

a googol + 1 is bigger than a googol. A googol is NOT the biggest number.

yes, I realise you posted that a year ago.

[unrealflashfan]

lol...

[cozmicjohnny]

A googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. A googolplex is a one followed by a googol zeros.

[rozario4]

omg so sad ppl dont no that its the biggest number in the worlddd!

[sewmarm]

I didn't know that!