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1. Some of the first search engines companies were ____________________________ and
____________________________.
2. Today’s search engines return pages of information in less than a
____________________________.
3. The web was once page after page of plain text, long lists of underlined sentences where you
could __________________________________________.
4. Stanford University students ____________________________ and
____________________________ founded the company ______________.
5. 1994 - Yahoo was just a ____________________________, a list of categories and subcategories that you could hunt and peck around it,
__________________________________________.
____________________________ was the venture capital company that funded Yahoo.
6. It wasn’t until the mid-1990’s that ____________________________ was allowed on the
Internet, to be able to buy and sell.
7. Yahoo was very concerned about the ramifications of putting advertising on their web site, that
the __________________________________________.
8. Advertising meant that it was possible to make money on the Internet, and the
____________________________ had begun.
9. Yahoo’s biggest rival was a company called ____________________________ whose search
engine used a more sophisticated technology. (Remember those guys from Triumph of the Nerds?)
10. Excite had a search engine that when you typed in your query it would
__________________________________ to find the web pages. Yahoo and other companies
quickly followed suit.
11. Search companies began to focus on other features like personalization and email, and
__________________________________________.
12. The founders of Google were ____________________ and _____________________.
13. Google is a twist on the word ____________________________, 10 to the hundredth power (1
followed by 100 zeroes).
14. Google prioritizes its lists like a popularity contest, using the number of links to that page from
other pages, a form of ____________________________.______________
15. Google was a search engine that ____________________________ again.
16. Venture capitalist and cofounder of Sun Microsystems Vinod Khosla tried to get Excite to
__________________________________________, so Excite could win the search battle against
their rival Yahoo.
17. Although Excite could have bought Google for about $1 million, Excite was
____________________________. Excite is worth over $100 billion today.
18. Stanford Professor David Cheriton introduced them to investors Andy Bechtolsheim and John
Doerr helped fund Google.
19. Google ____________________________ to fund their company like Yahoo and Excite, they
wanted their advertisements to make more sense.
20. Google used Bill Gross’s idea at Overture.com to use ____________________________ that
could be sold to advertisers who would ____________________________ like the Yellow Pages.
21. Google ____________________________ the ____________________________ results from
the ____________________________ results.
22. Google’s motto is __________________________________________.
23. There are concerns regarding __________________________________________.