This particular page is for the students of Mrs. Peterson and Mr. Husband to complete. Remember to add the citations to the "Sources" list at the bottom of this page. (Use Son of Citation Machine to help create the citation. You may have to retype the citation after copying and pasting.)

"No company in the world has more computing power than Google. They have modified or built over 100,000 computers and designed specialized searching software to accomodate their mission and needs. There is no comparable computer database, network or hardware system in the world. " (Carey, et al, 2007)


Task #1 The Google Philosophy

Find Google's corporate home page. Add link to Google's corporate home page here. Click Here!

Read the Google philosophy. What is meant by "Never settle for the best" ?

Google has found ten things to be true. What are they? List the 10 things in the table below. (All 10 cells will show up in the table when you choose the edit mode.)

Task #3 "I'm Feeling Lucky" What do you think this means? Try a few searches using the following criteria (search a particular country, animal, sport, or car):

• Country
• Animal
• Sport
• Car

How does the "I'm feeling lucky" button affect the search? Post here what you think this means. Edit the posting as you refine what others have written.



Sources:
Carey, Chris, John Lien, Maurice Draggon, and Sheila Ryan. An Educator's Guide to: Google Apps for Education. FTP Publishing, 2007.