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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Google 2000-2004: Zero to $3 Billion in Five Years.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much time passes for Google to go from next to nothing to earning over $4 billion in revenue?
(a) Less than three years.
(b) Less than two years.
(c) Less than five years.
(d) Less than a year.

2. Where did Monier end up working after AltaVista was sold and reworked?
(a) Google.
(b) EBay.
(c) Yahoo.
(d) AOL.

3. How does the media view Google in 2002?
(a) As a company that is growing too fast.
(b) As an honest company.
(c) As a failing company.
(d) As a deceitful company.

4. When is the first version of Google officially released?
(a) April 1997.
(b) August 1996.
(c) February 1995.
(d) March 1998.

5. What is the precursor to Google called when Page and Brin create it at Stanford University?
(a) The Google Directory.
(b) The Back and Forth Directory.
(c) BackRub.
(d) PageBrin Search.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Battelle's central focus in Chapter 2?

2. What year does the Internet bubble burst, leading to the decline of IdeaLab?

3. Page and Brin select the name "Google," based on the term, "googol," which refers to what?

4. What company acquires Overture?

5. What is the main idea behind the original concept of Google?

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