googolbyte

English

Etymology

From googol +‎ byte.

Noun

googolbyte (plural googolbytes)

1. (computing, informal) A unit of digital storage equal to a googol (10¹⁰⁰) bytes.
   • 1999 March 1, InfoWorld, volume 21, number 9:

     Where does the enterprise store its gigabytes, terabytes and googolbytes?

   • 2006, Andreas Zeller, Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging, page 98:

     My system has one Googolbyte of RAM and
     2 Googolplexbytes of disk space.

   • 2010, Howard V. Hendrix, Standing Wave: A Science Fiction Novel, page 28:

     Their home addresses were any number of condominiums on the back forty googolbytes of the infosphere.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:googolbyte.