From Googol to Google - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2026

I have blotted, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, and like a cloud, your sins. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
Isaiah 44:22

From Googol to Google
Almost everyone knows Google. But who knows that the name traces back to a nine-year-old boy named Milton Saretta? When his uncle, the mathematician Edward Kasner, in 1938 sought a term for a very large number (namely 10^100), Milton suggested “Googol.” The uncle liked it, and the term became established.

In 1997, “Googol” became the inspiration to give a fitting name to a search engine that processes huge amounts of data: Google.

Since then, Google has juggled with data and stored a lot of information about users. Google is the most visited website in the world and is offered in over 170 languages. By mid-2020, Google processed more than two trillion search queries annually. Everything imaginable is registered: excessive online shopping, aimless surfing, accessing questionable sites.

In May 2014, the European Court of Justice ruled that Google must remove search results upon request if they violate a person’s right to privacy and data protection. In the same month, Google provided an online form allowing users to request that content be removed from search results. But does this really erase all the digital traces that the user has left behind?

However, God knows much more than Google: He scrutinises our entire lives. He registers every single sin. But if we sincerely ask Him for forgiveness, then all our sins are irreversibly erased. For this we can thank Him!

Today’s reading: Jeremiah 32:26-44 · Romans 6:12-16