Terri Gross: Now I'll tell you, in preparing for this, I decided, let me Google Google, so I typed in "Google" into the Google search, and I came up with a lot of Google things in the regular search, but in the "Are you feeling lucky?" search, I got nothing.
Larry Page: Well you just got Google itself.
TG: Yeah, I just got Google itself. Oh, I see, Google was giving me itself.
LP: Yeah.
TG: Oh.
LP: In computer science, we call that recursion. [laugh].
TG: Oh, you even have a name for it. [laugh]. I didn't quite get that. I kept thinking it was just repeating itself. I didn't realize it was giving me itself. [laugh].
LP: [laugh]
TG: And what's the name for it?
LP: Uh, recursion. It's... kind of... Sergey is giving me a dirty look.
TG: Why?
LP: It's a loose definition. [laugh]
TG: Lighten up Sergey. [laugh]
LP: It's a loose interpretation of... [laugh]... recursion.
TG: Sergey, what's the more literal interpretation?
