Biography of Google
Making Money
Google Culture
Expanding Google
100
This was originally called Backrub
What is Google?
100
Eric Veach's major Google acheivement.
What is Adwords?
100
Google hired Charlie Ayers for this position.
What is the executive chef?
100
When G-mail was originally released it was not taken seriously for this reason.
What is April Fool's Day?
200
If you type in "ygurt" in a google search you still come up with links because of this.
What is Yogurt? What is the Spellchecker?
200
Wesley Chan, in charge of tracking how many purchases were made by people who clicked on ads, decided to acquire this business, turning it into Google Analytics
What is Urchin Software Corp.
200
This is known as the 20% rule
What is rule for the option to devoting one day of the week (20% of an employees time) to the project of an employees choosing?
200
Hotmail had 2 megabytes, Yahoo had 4 megabyts, when g-mail first launched it offered this much space.
What is 1 Gigabyte?
300
Google's original logo was created with this program.
What is GIMP?
300
Without searching the web. Before Google, the higher a company bid, the higher their ads appeared in search results. Google began the trend of sorting their ads this way.
Google sorts ads by relevance, or by how the ad relates to the search query.
300
Created the phase "Don't be Evil"
Who is Paul Buchheit?
300
Google paid 50,000,000 to aquire this in August of 2005
What is Android
400
You may not use google; The process of artificually boosting a page rank.
What is Search Engine Optimization or S.E.O.?
400
When considering that not everyone used credit cards, Page suggested this for Uzbekistan ad payment options.
What is Goats?
400
This person led the early Associate Product Managers program at Google.
Who is Marissa Mayer?
400
The first android device was released in 2008, labeled the G1, and was offered by this service provider
What is T-mobile
500
This was the solution to an Google Search algorithm that kept turning up a garden gnome as the best link while searching for "running shoes".
What is buying the garden gnome?
500
In 2001, Google creators Larry Page and Seregy Brin hired Eric Schmidt to be the CEO (Their Boss) for this reason.
What is a venture capital firm insisted that they hire a seasoned CEO to bring experience to their company.
500
The Montessori school shaped how Google became structured for this reason.
What is the effect of Sergey Brin and Larry Page attending a Montessori School?
500
After teaming up with several service providers, Google decided to sell their own cellular device "unlocked" so that the consumer could use any carrier.
What is Nexus one. (bonus points if codename Passion Device is mentioned.)
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