Listen to the tape and fill in the gaps in the text, using the words from the list. Google was the of Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They met in 1995 at Stanford University, USA, while they were studying Computer Science. You could say Google started with an as, at first, Sergey and Larry didn’t really get on! In fact, they argued and disagreed on just about everything. However, there was one thing they did share: a to making the Internet more . At that time, Internet search were slow and . They listed search results according to the number of times the search term appeared on a page. Larry and Sergey found this . An idea came to them: why not list search results according to a website’s ? So, they set about creating a search engine that could calculate how important a web page was. At first, their received a fair amount of from experts, but the two friends didn’t give up and managed to raise enough money from , family, and friends to support themselves. While they were developing the search engine, Larry and Sergey realised it needed a name. They were by a mathematical word, ‘googol’ which means ‘1 followed by a hundred zeros’. They thought it was a really good name, considering the amount of information on the Net, and so ‘googol’ became ‘ ’. In 1998, Larry and Sergey set up their office in a friend’s and Google went online. Soon, they were answering thousands of search per day. People really liked Google’s simple, design and, of course, its performance! Before long, Sergey and Larry moved their operations to a new they called Googleplex. In 2000, Google introduced ten language and officially became the world’s most popular search engine. Google now to about a billion search requests per day and its shows no signs of . For most people information, Google is the place to go!

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Listen to the tape and fill in the gaps in the text, using the words from the list.

Google was the ... of Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They met in 1995 at Stanford University, USA, while they were studying Computer Science. You could say Google started with an ... as, at first, Sergey and Larry didn’t really get on! In fact, they argued and disagreed on just about everything. However, there was one thing they did share: a ... to making the Internet more ... .
At that time, Internet search ... were slow and ... . They listed search results according to the number of times the search term appeared on a page. Larry and Sergey found this ... . An idea came to them: why not list search results according to a website’s ... ?
So, they set about creating a search engine that could calculate how important a ... web page was. At first, their ... received a fair amount of ... from experts, but the two friends didn’t give up and managed to raise enough money from ... , family, and friends to support themselves.
While they were developing the search engine, Larry and Sergey realised it needed a ... name. They were ... by a mathematical word, ‘googol’ which means ‘1 followed by a hundred zeros’. They thought it was a really good name, considering the ... amount of information ... on the Net, and so ‘googol’ became ‘ ... ’.
In 1998, Larry and Sergey set up their office in a friend’s ... and Google went online. Soon, they were answering thousands of search ... per day. People really liked Google’s simple, ... design and, of course, its ... performance! Before long, Sergey and Larry moved their operations to a new ... they called Googleplex.
In 2000, Google introduced ten ... language ... and officially became the world’s most popular search engine. Google now ... to about a billion search requests per day and its ... shows no signs of ... . For most people ... information, Google is the place to go!

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