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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Search, Privacy, Government, and Evil.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Page admire for doing noteworthy studies but never profiting from them?
(a) Peter Szor.
(b) Kevin Gifford.
(c) Nikola Tesla.
(d) Arthur Samuel.

2. 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 a year.
(c) Less than two years.
(d) Less than five years.

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

4. What is special about the Google ads that appear next to emails?
(a) They contain relevant products to the user's email content.
(b) They take the user back to Google's search page when clicked on instead of a business website.
(c) They only appear when users first log in to their email accounts.
(d) They cannot be clicked on.

5. After a series of company takeovers, Yahoo eventually acquired AltaVista and used it as what feature for their website?
(a) A toolbar.
(b) A website directory.
(c) A search box.
(d) A tracker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the World Wide Web, who mainly used the Internet?

2. Who becomes the first CEO of Google?

3. IdeaLab initially operates on what theory about developing new business ideas?

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

5. What was Excite's most notable feature?

(see the answer key)

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