Kaku的部落格

虽然我今天刚知道还有这么一个网站，但是还是被Omegle给迷住了。
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如果哪天电视播出化妆品广告：“黑大夫，黑黑黑，就是让你黑。”我心里也能够平衡许多了。

工作十天，辛酸谁人知。天天往业主那里求人家办事，人家业主的电厂职工住得好，吃得好，还年薪十万。我这种电建的技术员顶多算个苦力，白天偶尔也要去施工现场，晚上要在办公室继续学习英语为出国做准备，周六周日没休息一直要加班多，收入也不见得高。
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相信周六参加四六级考试的同鞋注意到，阅读理解的第一题就是和Google有关的。
你做得怎么样呢？嘿嘿，作为一个标标准准的Google迷，这种试题当然小菜一碟啦。

Google is a world-famous company, with its headquarters in Mountain View, California. It was set up in a Silicon Valley garage in 1998, and inflated（膨胀） with the Internet bubble. Even when everything around it collapsed the company kept on inflating. Google’s search engine is so widespread across the world that search became Google, and google became a verb. The world fell in love with effective, fascinatingly fast technology.

Google owes much of its success to the brilliance of S.Brin and L.Page, but also to a series of fortunate events. It was Page who, at Stanford in 1996, initiated the academic project that eventually became Google’s search engine. Brin, who had met Page at a student orientation a year earlier, joined the project early on. They were both Ph.D, candidates when they devised the search engine which was better than the rest and, without any marketing, spread by word of mouth from early adopters to, eventually, your grandmother.

Their breakthrough, simply put, was that when their search engine crawled the Web. It did more than just look for word matches; it also tallied（统计） and ranked a host of other critical factors like how websites link to one another. That delivered far better results than anything else. Brin and Page meant to name their creation Googol(the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes), but someone misspelled the word so it stuck as Google. They raised money from prescient（有先见之明的） professors and venture capitalists, and moved off campus to turn Google into a business. Perhaps their biggest stroke of luck came early on when they tried to sell their technology to other search engines, but no one met their price, and they built it up on their own.

The next breakthrough came in 2000, when Google figured out how to make money with its invention. It had lots of users, but almost no one was paying. The solution turned out to be advertising, and it’s not an exaggeration to say that Google is now essentially an advertising company, given that that’s the source of nearly all its revenue. Today it is a giant advertising company, worth $100 billion.

问题为

1) Apart from a series of fortunate events, what is it that has made Google so successful?

2) Google’s search engine originated from ___________ started by L.Page.

3) How did Google’s search engine spread all over the world?

4) Brin and Page decided to set up their own business because no one would ________.

5) The revenue of the Google company is largely generated from ________.

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