By Adam Ostrow Maryland Newsline Wednesday, July 14, 2004
1. The original name of the project that became the search engine Google was:
Goggles BackRub Power Search Goo
2. Google is a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term that is 1 followed by how many zeros?
100 1000 10000 Infinite
3. Google co-founders Page and Brin met at what prestigious university?
Harvard Cal Tech Stanford Georgia Tech
4. Which of the following services does Google not offer?
E-mail Blogging Catalog search Local events search
5. True/False: Yahoo! passed on an opportunity to buy Google in 1998.
True False
6.
Google's corporate headquarters is known as:
Mount Google The Googleplex Starship Google Google Center
7.
About how many Web pages does Google's search index query?
100 million 1 billion 4 billion 9 billion
8. "Google bombing" refers to:
Groups of people organizing to spam Google in protest over the company’s IPO. An unexpected outage of the Google Web site caused by too many visitors. An attempt by other search engines to re-direct Google’s traffic to their sites. Groups of people organizing to propel certain Web pages to the top of search rankings.
