Brief History of Google

1. Google began in 1996 as a project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In their research project they came up with a plan to make a search engine that ranked websites according to the number of other websites that linked to that site. Before Google, search engines had ranked sites simply by the number of times the search term appeared on a webpage, and the duo set out to make a more "aware" search engine. The domain google.com was registered on September, 14, 1997 and Google Corporation was formed a year later in September, 1998.

2. In 2004, Google launched its own free web-based email service, known as Gmail. This service was made to rival the free online mail services supplied by Yahoo and Microsoft. This new free email service shook up the very foundation of free email with its enormous 1 GB of email storage which dwarfed its rivals' ten-fold.

3. In 2004 Google launched Google Earth. Google Earth is an amazing creation that is a map of the earth based on satellite imagery. This interactive globe of the world allows you to type in a search for any place in the world and you will automatically be taken to that part of the world. The cool part is that with Google Earth you can zoom right in to street level and actually see your own street and even your house!

4. In 2006 Google was added to the Oxford English dictionary as a verb – the verb "to Google" has become so popular that Google has even been worried that their brand name might lose their copyright and patent protections, and allow other companies to be able to legally use the Google brand in their own brand.

5. Today Google has a dominant controlling share of the search market. Google is the most widely used search engine on the Internet with a 54% market share.

VII. Ответьте на следующие вопросы письменно и будьте готовы к устной беседе с преподавателем о Вас, Вашей семье и работе.

1. What is your name?

2. Where are you from? / Where do you live?

3. When do you celebrate your birthday?

4. What are you? / What is your profession?

5. When did you make your professional choice?

6. What sports do you like?

7. Do you study by correspondence?

8. What do you need the university education for?

9. Is it easy for you to combine work with studies?

10. Have you got a family of your own? Describe your family.

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