9th form Modern Inventions (Vocabulary)

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

2. It has grown from a _____ project in the dormitory room of two college students to a business that now employs approximately 1,000 people.

3. Google's _____, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, met in 1995 when they were in their 20s and graduate students in computer science at Stanford University in California.

4. They relized that Internet search was a very important ____ and began working together to make searching easier.

5. Both Page and Brin left their studies at Stanford to work on their ____ .

6. Interestingly, they have never returned to finish their _____.

7. Brin's father was a ____ before they have left Russia for the USA when the boy was only 5 years old.

8. Page, whose parents wer computer _____, has been interested in computers since he was six years old.

9. When Google started in 1998, it did 10,000 _____ a day.

10. Today it does 200 million searches a day in 90 languages and it _____ three billion Web pages.