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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, A Billion Dollars, One Nickel at a Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Excite's most notable feature?
(a) A customizable user page.
(b) A history box showing the most recent websites and keywords searched.
(c) A section where the most traveled to websites is bookmarked.
(d) Two search boxes for multiple searches.

2. Before changing to Yahoo in 1995, what was the original name given to the search engine in 1994 by creators, Jerry Yang and David Filo?
(a) Yang and Filo's Web Crawler.
(b) YahooCrawler.com.
(c) Jerry and David's Excellent Search Engine.
(d) Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web.

3. From which fields of doctoral candidates does Battelle think will use the database as a research tool?
(a) English, journalism, mathematics, and history.
(b) Arts and science, psychology, and pathology.
(c) Mathematics, history, and archeology.
(d) Cultural anthropology, psychology, history, and sociology.

4. As Battelle points out, Internet use has grown to become more and more common, and most people are familiar with what online tool?
(a) An online payment system.
(b) A website directory.
(c) Email.
(d) A search box.

5. What does "URL" stand for?
(a) Universal Resource Locators.
(b) Universal Responder Link
(c) Universal Redirection Links.
(d) Universal Remote Location.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sixty-five percent of all Internet searches are estimated for what purpose?

2. What company eventually bought WebCrawler in 1995?

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

4. In his original vision for a Database of Intentions, what does Battelle see the database being built with?

5. What alternative search engine did Dr. Michael Mauldin create in 1994?

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