“Martha Stewart Presents: Women with Vision"
Premiering Monday, July 18
On the Hallmark Channel, on Monday, July 18, Martha Stewart will be interviewing Marissa Mayer - Google's Vice President of Consumer Products - the youngest woman to make Fortune’s ‘Top 50 Most Powerful Women in the World’’ list. Marissa will talk about Google’s infamous homepage design and name, as well as give a glimpse into her personal life and her love of baking.
MS: Now, that homepage when you go to Google, it’s very clean, a very white page with that nice neat box, and those primary colored letters ‘Google.’ How did that come about?
MM: I asked Sergey this question, because Sergey did the original design of the homepage. I said, “Sergey, is this a statement for minimalism, you know, what were you trying to convey?” And his answer was, “We didn’t have a webmaster and I don’t do HTML.” And so basically we kind of stumbled into our signature look.
MS: And it’s a silly name if you think about it, but it actually stands for something very un-silly.
MM: Well it stands for a number, which is 10 to the 100. And so when Larry and Sergey were looking for a name for the company, they wanted something short, six letters or less. The number is spelled G-O-O-G-O-L.
MS: Googol.
MM: But the funny thing is that Larry and Sergey are terrible spellers. I mean they spelled and it wasn’t taken, so they were like, ‘Great! We found it, and that’s how much information we want to organize.”… That’s great, but you misspelled it.
