A surprise discovery yesterday, rereading my old (OLD) Pogo books, the last one: "Pogo: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us," paperback, 1972. Note that date. Page 37, where a pig is complaining about others tossing crap into the swamp:
"...An' these ol' razzle bags an' frimmy frams an' google lobs all belong..."
- walt crawford
Brin and Page: both born 1973. Bedtime reading? Pure coincidence? (Or is this something others have noticed and I didn't pay attention to?) Yes, it's spelled "GOOGLE" on the page--as is typical, Walt (Crawford) Kelly uses all caps when he's not using special typefaces.
- walt crawford
Here's "google" vs "googol" in the Ngram Viewer: https://books.google.com/ngrams...
- Stephen Francoeur
Ah, of course: Barney Google alone would account for loads of pre-1972 mentions. With those goo-goo-googley eyes. (Yes, that was even before my time.)
- walt crawford