'Google/goggle' in its pre-Internet form always struck me as related to the vernacular German gucken 'to peep [at]', which (I always assumed) was in some roundabout way the basis for the name of 'the gookie', a bug-eyed face that Harpo Marx would pull. Erik > Isn't there an old song about "Barney Google and?/with? his > goo-goo-googly eyes"?