Read the text about Google. Choose from the sentences the one which best fits each gap (1-3).
Today is Google's 20th birthday! The company's history is a story of classic entrepreneurialism, hard work, and a little luck.
Alexa, a company that monitors commercial web traffic, lists Google.com as the most visited website in the world. Google's mission statement is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" but also has an unofficial statement which is "Don't be evil". This motto was replaced in 2015 to "Do the right thing". Blank 1 Вопрос 1 The company's logo regularly undergoes modifications, such as cartoons for holidays, birthdays for famous people or major events. At the time Larry Page was a Ph.D. student at Standford University, and Sergey was considering studying there. Some might smile at this, given that Google's altruistic mission has been increasingly called into doubt due to a number of actions that appear to contradict this motto.
So how did they do it? Here is our short biography of everything you need to know about Google's history.
Google's history began in 1995 when Larry Page met Sergey Brin. Blank 2 Вопрос 1 The company's logo regularly undergoes modifications, such as cartoons for holidays, birthdays for famous people or major events. At the time Larry Page was a Ph.D. student at Standford University, and Sergey was considering studying there. Some might smile at this, given that Google's altruistic mission has been increasingly called into doubt due to a number of actions that appear to contradict this motto. Google.com was registered on September 15th, 1997. Google is a play on words of "googol" which is a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. It is rumored that this reflects the founders' mission to organize the infinite amount of information on the internet.
In August 1998 co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to the non-existent company Google Inc. Google was set up on September 4th, 1998 as a private company. The founders opened a bank account and deposited Bechtolsheim's investment.Google's first office is, classically, a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. Google hired its first employee Craig Silverstein who stayed with them for more than ten years before joining another startup Khan Academy. In 1999, Google moved from its humble garage to its new place at 165 University Avenue, Palo Alto. At this time they had eight employees. Also, their first most important team member, Yoshka the dog, joined the team.
Google's iconic logo has undergone several changes throughout its history. The first logo was designed by Brin. Blank 3 Вопрос 1 The company's logo regularly undergoes modifications, such as cartoons for holidays, birthdays for famous people or major events. At the time Larry Page was a Ph.D. student at Standford University, and Sergey was considering studying there. Some might smile at this, given that Google's altruistic mission has been increasingly called into doubt due to a number of actions that appear to contradict this motto. These special logos, some designed by Dennis Hwang, have become known as Google Doodles.
But what about the colors? Graphic designer Ruth Kedar explains "There were a lot of different colors ", "We ended up with the primary colors, but instead of having the pattern go in order, we put a secondary color on the L, which brought back the idea that Google doesn't follow the rules"