“They're not using the concepts, but just capitalizing on the name.” She added that she had written to the company in 1998 to introduce herself and the family, but received no response. “Obviously it's only brought attention to the name it hasn't brought attention to his work, so I'm not quite certain what he'd think,” she said.
The search engine was born 23 years ago following a chance encounter between two computer scientistsSergey Brin and. Kasner’s great-niece told the Baltimore Sun in 2004 that she wasn’t sure what her uncle would think about Google’s use of the word. The Google Doodle for Monday, September 27, celebrates the birth of Google. Kasner died in 1955, and his nephew Sirotta died in 1981, 17 years too early to see the word he’d invented become the name of a California startup that grew into the 17 th largest company in the world (under the umbrella of Alphabet). A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Googles homepages intended to commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and notable historical figures. And if you’ve always thought Google’s name sounded like a nonsense word made up by a small child, that’s because it actually was: then-nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, whose mathematician uncle Edward Kasner asked him to pin a name on the enormous number for a book Kasner was working on: Mathematics and the Imagination, published in 1940. The search engine’s main page, which normally celebrates various occasions with a special graphic or animation called Google Doodle, today was empty and plain to honour Britains.
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