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

2. Why does Page need Brin to build Google?
(a) Page did not have a background in computers.
(b) Brin worked for a company that designed websites.
(c) The site was based on a graph that required Brin's mathematical skills to make a reality.
(d) Brin had the financial capability to provide the necessary funding for the project.

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

4. What is especially fascinating about the story of how Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked together to create Google?
(a) Most of their friends and associates did not believe in their idea and tried to discourage them from pursuing it, but they did not listen.
(b) They were both best friends before they were business partners, which is why they were successful.
(c) They did not like each other at first, but both become business partners out of their common interest in building something useful.
(d) Neither one of them had actually used a computer before they met and decided to create a search engine.

5. 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 search box.
(c) A website directory.
(d) Email.

Short Answer Questions

1. The estimated growth of the search engine industry is expected to reach $23 billion by what year?

2. In 1993, what university created Veronica, the second search engine?

3. How is the intelligence coded to speed up and refine a search for Internet users?

4. For what amount is Overture finally sold?

5. When Louis Monier released AltaVista.com to Internet users, what company was he associated with?

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