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What is your Google IQ?

By Adam Ostrow
Maryland Newsline
Wednesday, July 14, 2004

1. The original name of the project that became the search engine Google was:

Goggles
BackRub
Power Search
Goo

2. Google is a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term that is 1 followed by how many zeros?

100
1000
10000
Infinite

3.  Google co-founders Page and Brin met at what prestigious university?

Harvard
Cal Tech
Stanford
Georgia Tech

4. Which of the following services does Google not offer?

E-mail
Blogging
Catalog search
Local events search

5.  True/False: Yahoo! passed on an opportunity to buy Google in 1998.

True
False

6.  Google's corporate headquarters is known as:

Mount Google
The Googleplex
Starship Google
Google Center

7.  About how many Web pages does Google's search index query?

100 million
1 billion
4 billion
9 billion

8.  "Google bombing" refers to:

Groups of people organizing to spam Google in protest over the company’s IPO.
An unexpected outage of the Google Web site caused by too many visitors.
An attempt by other search engines to re-direct Google’s traffic to their sites.
Groups of people organizing to propel certain Web pages to the top of search rankings.

Copyright © 2004 University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism

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