Googling something has become a way of life and the person responsible for changing the way people look things up is Larry Page. Today anyone gets the idea to look something up on the Internet, he, or she will probably want to "Google it." The international search engine Google has entered the language of virtually every person who uses the World Wide Web. Born in East Lansing, Michigan on March 26, 1973, the 41-year-old Page is a business magnate, computer programmer, and co-founder of Google. He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer for the multi-billion dollar company. His current net worth is estimated at $32 billion putting him at No. 19, on Forbes Magazine's list of billionaires. Page comes from a computer science pedigree. His father was a professor at the University of Michigan, where Larry Page graduated with honors. Larry went on to earn his Master of Science from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. From an early age Page has been interested in finding out how mechanical things work. He credits his older brother for showing him how to take things apart, and to reassemble them, but invention is what interests Page the most. Page began his first Google page while still a student at Stanford. He developed a new algorithm that was superior to every search engine in use in 1996. This site at Stanford would evolve to the Google search engine today. Google has been ranked as the No. 1 search engine in the world. It operates more than one million servers in data centers throughout the world to accommodate an estimated one billion searches per day. It also owns the popular video playing website YouTube. Google generates nearly $13 billion in net sales per year.
| Answer | Word | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| servers | a. a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web | |
| michigan | b. be agreeable or acceptable to | |
| searches | c. a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film) | |
| stanford | d. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | |
| credits | e. bring into existence | |
| f. United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893) | ||
| billionaires | g. a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region | |
| alto | h. the descendants of one individual | |
| california | i. search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine | |
| googling | j. a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search | |
| internet | k. a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef | |
| pedigree | l. a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange | |
| lansing | m. a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) | |
| website | n. a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem | |
| video | o. a very wealthy or powerful businessman | |
| generates | p. the visible part of a television transmission | |
| accommodate | q. take or have a position relative to others | |
| ranked | r. a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars | |
| algorithm | s. a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes | |
| magnate | t. capital of the state of Michigan; located in southern Michigan on the Grand River | |