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Listen to the story of Google and fill in the blanks as you listen. Google is the world’s most (1) ___________ search engine. Its founders were two Stanford University students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who started the company in (2) ___________. The name Google is a misspelling of Page’s original planned name, googol (a mathematical term for the number one followed by (3) __________ zeroes), although at the beginning the (4) __________ had to be named as Backrub. The present-day company’s name became so popular that it entered the lexicon as a verb: to google became a common expression for searching (5) ___________. Page and Brin met by chance. Larry Page, 22 at the time, a graduate from the University of Michigan, applied to Stanford (6) __________ for his Ph.D. Sergey Brin, then 21, already a Ph.D. candidate at the prestigious institution, had the task to show Larry Page around the university campus. Today Google has more than 3 billion (7) ___________, but the engine searches through all these websites in less than half a second. The Google (8) __________ is available in 80 languages. At the very start of the company, in 1998, Google wanted to sell their search engine system to Yahoo for $ 2 million. Yahoo didn’t accept this offer. Later, Yahoo wanted to come back to this offer and offered 3 billion in 2002. This time Google didn’t accept the offer. Today Yahoo is much cheaper than (9) ___________.