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Funny. News to me!

It's not going to stop me from pronouncing the search engine name as "goo-glee" since it still appears in my mind as a misspelling of googol.

Which, as the link mentions, it is— just because their (intentional?) misspelling happens to coincide with an earlier form, doesn't mean it isn't a misspelling.

I always thought the name was influenced by Nikolai Gogol.

When I was a kid we would say someone with big eyes had "googly eyes". So, when Google came around I thought it was a reference to something like that (eyes, looking, seeing).