Video class GOOGLE

Before you watch. Work with your friend and answer the questions below.

1. What do you know about Google, Yahoo and Excite?

2. Which of these is most powerful nowadays?

3. What do the words in the box mean?

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1. ........................................... great change, especially causing or involving much difficulty, activity or trouble,

2. ........................................... (especially of a man's clothes or of his appearance) modern and stylish,

3. ........................................... needing a lot of time and effort,

4. ........................................... to fail as a result of problems, if someone does it, they begin to feel weak and agree that they have been defeated,

5. .......................................... not clear, especially because of heat,

6. .......................................... able to work as intended or able to succeed,

7. .......................................... to finally understand something or someone, or find the solution to a problem after a lot of thought,

8. .......................................... to give support, strength or a basic structure to something,

9. .......................................... simple and not skilfully done or made,

10. .......................................... a person who does not work hard enough,

11. .......................................... to take or try to take hold of something tightly, usually in fear, worry or pain,

12. ......................................... to spend time doing nothing important or behaving in a silly way,

13. ......................................... doing things in a secret and unfair way,

14. ........................................ extremely and uncomfortably hot.

WHILE YOU WATCH

Complete the sentences with the right expressions from the programme.

1. There are over …………… ………………. websites and billions of ……………….. out there.

2. It's the technology we take entirely for ………………………….

3. It's the home of legendary name like ………….. and ……………. ………………..

4. At Stanford the root of …………………… can be found.

5. …………………. today is among the most traffic sites on the web.

6. Many users from around the world …………………… to the site.

7. Silicon Valley looks like an …………………… village.

8. The advertising split the real web community, on one side were the …………….. ………….. and on the other were ………………… …………………….

9. They were very concerned about the ramifications and repercussions of putting advertising upon their ………………………..

10. In late 1995 Yahoo began taking ……………….. ………………………

11. Excite was pure ……………………………, it was a rudimentary version of what we call search today.

12. Excite could have bought Google for about a …………………… box.

13. A company had just walked away from what could have been a …………………… of a lifetime.

14. Every search company in the Silicon Valley turned them down ………………..

15. The early investors in Silicon Valley are called ……………………

16. John Doerr is arguably Silicon Valley's most venturous …………………………

17. I would never believe that Google would get to 10 billion ……………………. this year.

18. They wanted to organize literally all of the information in the world, make it ……………………………., universal and accessible.

19. They just couldn't ………………… the idea of Google turning into just another cluttered portal.

20. It was Bill Gross who cracked the ………………….. of internet advertising and in a roundabout way provided Google with ………………………..

AFTER YOU WATCH

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