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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Google Is Born.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1993, what university created Veronica, the second search engine?
(a) Yale University.
(b) The University of Nevada.
(c) The University of Oklahoma.
(d) Harvard University.

2. What is the core technology that supplied an algorithm for the order of websites?
(a) PageListing.
(b) PageVolume.
(c) PageRank.
(d) PageSort.

3. In what year was the worldwide average at 550 million searches per day?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2004.

4. What do webmasters originally fear Google is doing?
(a) Growing too fast for the servers to keep up with.
(b) Using too much bandwidth.
(c) Causing the Internet to slow down dramatically because of all of the users online at the same time.
(d) Disrupting the flow of traffic at other search engine websites.

5. What Palo Alto street does Google relocate to after outgrowing its current location in 1999?
(a) University Avenue.
(b) Brookdale Avenue.
(c) Fifth Street.
(d) Cherry Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many searches does the rest of the world perform compared to U.S. Internet users?

2. The basic model of a search engine has remained largely unchanged since when?

3. Who developed the first search engine for the World Wide Web?

4. When is the first version of Google officially released?

5. As of the first quarter of 2005, what does Google have 51 percent of?

(see the answer key)

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