Dean Koontz character named Google

[mumbles]

Reading a Dean Koontz book "From the corner of his eye" One of the characters is a forger by the name of Google. He provides fake documents. Well I have to wonder is this some kind of reference to the search engine? Did Mr. Koontz not like Google for some reason?

[weeks]

Perhaps he was thinking of Barney Google.
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[King_Fisher]

Does the word Google have any other meaning?

In any language? KF

[Automan Empire]

Its etymology lies in a variant of the actual word googol, which means the number one folowed by 100 zeros.

A googolplex is 10^10^100, or 1 followed by a googol zeroes; they call the Google headquarters the googleplex which is great because I love puns!

Irony, I looked it up on google to confirm the numbers! :)

[bcolflesh]

Google has become for many the pre-eminent Web search engine. In Feb. 1999 it moved from Alpha test version to Beta and officially launched Sept. 21, 1999.

From the Corner of His Eye is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 2000.

It's likely Koontz wrote and submitted his book to his publisher long before Google was a household name.

[voices]

My copy of the book had a copyright date of 2002, Amazon shows Dec 2000 as the date. That does make a huge difference.

This Google guy doesn't show up till half way through the book. I would guess that it doesn't take long for an established author to make it to print.

[bcolflesh]

I would guess that it doesn't take long for an established author to make it to print.

Depends, many authors have books published from material they wrote years ago, especially guys known for turning out popular hackneyed paperbacks like Koontz, King, et al.