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2Since its start in 1998, Google has become one of the most popular search engines.

It has grown
from a research project in the dormitory room of two college students to a business that now employs
approximately 20,000 people.
Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, met in 1995 when they Larry Page and Sergey
Brin were in their twenties and graduate students in computer science at Stanford University in
California. They realized that Internet search was a very important field and began working together
to make searching easier. Both Page and Brin left their studies at Stanford to work on their project.
Interestingly, they have never returned to finish their degrees.
Brin was born in Russia, but he has lived in the U.S. since he was five years old. His father was a
mathematician in Russia. Page, whose parents were computer experts, has been interested in
computers since he was six years old.
When Google started in 1998, it did 10,000 searches a day. Today it does 235 million searches a
day in 40 languages. It indexes' 1 trillion Web pages.
How is Google different from other search engines? Have you ever noticed how many ads and
banners there are on other search engines? News, sports scores, stock prices, links for shopping,
mortgage rates, and more fill other search engines. Brin and Page wanted a clean home page. They
believed that people come to the Internet to search for specific information, not to be hit with a lot of
unwanted data. The success of Google over its rivals' has proved that this is true.
Over the years, Google has added new features to its Web site: Google Images, where you can
type in a word and get thousands of pictures;
Google News, which takes you to today's news; Google Maps; and more. But one thing hasn't
changed: the clean opening page that Google ofters its users.
In 2009, Forbes.com listed Page and Brin as having net worths of $12 billion each, at 36 and 35 years
old.
Write True/False
1. Google has grown over the years.
2. Sergey Brin has lived in the U.S. all his life.
3. Larry Page and Sergey Brin have known each other since they were children.
4. Larry Page has been interested in computers since he was a child.
5. Brin and Page have returned to college to finish their degrees.
6. Brin and Page have become rich.
7. The noun "Google" has become a verb.
Listen and Answer the questions.
1 How long has David lived in Perth? 2 Who are the two 'Alices' in his life?
3 Where does his grandmother live?
4 Where were her brothers and sisters born?
5 What did her father do for a living?
6 What did her ancestors do in the 9th century?
7 What does she say si the result of this?
8 Why did the family leave the Orkney islands?
Listen and complete some other lines from the interview with Frieda.
1. - Do you go back to Germany much?
- No, I don't. I_______back a few times to visit relatives, but I _____there again.
2. -What_____you________at university?
- ___________ Ancient History at Cambridge.
3. _____you ever______any other jobs, apart from being an archaeologist?
- Yes, I______. I______ all sorts of jobs, II even_____ as a waitress when I was at university.
4. -What's the most dangerous situation you_________ in?-
- Well, I_______ a very difficult time in Egypt during the revolution in 2011. I_____ two
weeks inside my friend's house - it was too dangerous to go out!

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