Although googolplex as a verb is a relatively recent usage, the number itself was coined as far back as the 1930s by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner asked the little boy what he thought would be a good name for the number one followed by a hundred zeroes, and Milton came up with googol, a word which nearly 60 years later inspired the name of the popular Internet search engine Google™. Milton also suggested the word googolplex as a name for the number one followed by a googol zeroes.