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This village on the banks of the Krishna with 1,000 residents in Raichur district is far removed from the search engine company based in Mountain View, California. How you spell the name is left to you as there are no English boards anywhere. All the boards, including those of government offices, are in Kannada. And, on all of them, the name sounds exactly like how Google is pronounced. When the government tried to put up English boards, activists stopped them. “We asked officials what was the purpose of putting up English boards. Would anyone from Cambridge University come here to read these boards?” asked Kannada activist K P Yallayyanayaka. Most of the inhabitants haven’t heard of their famous namesake in cyberspace. The few who do are proud of their village’s claim to fame. “My grand-daughter told me that two boys have named a website after our village. I feel happy and proud,” said landlord Basavarajappa Gouda Police Patil.
“Who’ll not be happy to know the name of our village is so popular in the cyber world?” asked Bellary-based agriculture scientist Sharana Gouda, who hails from the village. “However, this is just a pleasant coincidence. Americans will have totally different reasons for naming their company Google,” Gouda said. There are two theories on how the village got its name. The first is a mythical story and springs from the legend that 12th century saint poet Allama Prabhu lived in this village when he was travelling from Basava Kalyan to Shreeshailam in Andhra Pradesh. The cave where he is believed to have lived has been described as Gavi Gallu (cave of stone). “Our village was hence called Gavi Gallu. Over the years, it became Googallu and now it’s Google,” Gouda said.
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“Who’ll not be happy to know the name of our village is so popular in the cyber world?” asked Bellary-based agriculture scientist Sharana Gouda, who hails from the village. “However, this is just a pleasant coincidence. Americans will have totally different reasons for naming their company Google,” Gouda said. There are two theories on how the village got its name. The first is a mythical story and springs from the legend that 12th century saint poet Allama Prabhu lived in this village when he was travelling from Basava Kalyan to Shreeshailam in Andhra Pradesh. The cave where he is believed to have lived has been described as Gavi Gallu (cave of stone). “Our village was hence called Gavi Gallu. Over the years, it became Googallu and now it’s Google,” Gouda said.
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