“How many common English words were invented by Shakespeare?” How long did  小题1:_   take people to find the answer to this question 15 years ago? And now? You can google it  小题2:  find the answer immediately!

Larry Page and Sergey Brin met in 1995,  小题3: they were both studying computer science at a university. They dreamed of producing something that could answer  小题4: questions in seconds. They decided to make a better and faster search engine(搜索引擎)  45  January 1996. At that time  小题5: would give them money for their project, so they had to borrow money from family and friends. Soon they started their own company. Its name Google comes from math. A ‘google’ is 小题6: very high number —1 followed by a hundred zeros.

The google search engine was soon used by thousands of people worldwide  小题7: it was fast, easy and correct. By 2002 it became the  小题8: (big) search engine on the Internet. Google hopes that in the future all the world’s information 小题9: be put on the Internet, so that everybody can find everything.