What is you GQ?

[shree...@gmail.com]

Dear Ambassadors,

As much as we are convinced that all our ambassadors have a great IQ,
use this opportunity to convince us that your GQ (yes, Google
Quotient) is high too!

Please find below a few questions about Google, that we have put
together. They are basic, relatively easy, and shouldn’t take more
than 15 minutes of your time. The first person who writes back to
shr...@google.com before 2nd Feb ’09, with all the right answers will
be declared the winner. The winner will be rewarded with a Google
goody bag!

Also, just for the record, please don’t post your replies on the
group.

Questions (Quiz- January ‘09)

1. The name Google is derived from a mathematical term, “Googol”.
What does “Googol” stand for and who coined the term?

2. What was the search engine originally nicknamed as?

3. Andy Bechtolsheim was one of the initial fund providers for Google,
paying a sum of US $ 100,000. He is the co-founder of which famous
company?

4. What are the two arms of Google’s main revenue generating
advertising division?

5. Who is the CEO of Google?

6. What is the name of the ranking system on which Google’s search
results are dependant?

7. Google has acquired quite a few companies over the past few years
and rebranded them as major internet products. One such product was
Pyra Labs. How do we know that today?

8. With which of Time Warner brand did Google associate its
advertising program to provide search and advertising?

9. When Google started with Google Groups, they took over all the then
existing archives of which user group site?

10. What is Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California,
referred to as?


We will post the winner this month’s quiz on the Google Group by 6th
Feb ’09.

We look forward to an enthusiastic response!

Best Regards,

People Operations Team
Google India

[Akshay Jain]

Hi Shreeja

1. In 1938, Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew Milton Sirotta coined the
term googol; A googol is the large number , that is, the digit 1 followed
by one hundred zeros

2. Larry's research project was named "BackRub"

3. Andy is co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

4. The first one is Adwords for sure. The second one will be Adsense (if
you consider Adsense as a completely different thing from Adwords but they
are inter-related).

5. Eric Schmidt is the CEO.

6. GOogle Pagerank.

7. Blogger

8. AOL

9. USENET

10. GooglePLex


I think I have answered all of them correctly. Just hope that no one was
before me ;) Saw the email 5minutes back.

Akshay

[Arjun SriHari]

I agree with every answer that Akshay has decided to share with the entire group!!

Cheers,

Arjun.

[Pavittra Narrendran]

Hi Akshay,

Thanks a million for providing us with the answers,,,so all of us gets the gooogle goodies.. yay-)


Cheeers
Pavittra

[Akshay Jain]

Ok ppl. I realised it after I had sent the email! So, everyone has got d
answers without having to look for them anywhere!

Really Sorry Shreeja. Too used to using the "reply" button directly.


Akshay

[Aditya Krishnan]

I do believe one of your answers is incorrect, Akshay. A little more research + a careful reading of the question?

[neha bhatia]

hehe akshay thats hilarious.How are you?long time.

[Aditya Krishnan]

what looking...? except the first one, they were all off the top of my head. That history of Google book they gave us had most of this stuff in it

[Akshay Jain]

which "history of google" book? We didnt get any.

[shreya dalvi]

What a major goof-up!!! Now d google goodies bag goes 2 nobody :P

[shree...@gmail.com]

Hi All,


I am yet to receive correct answers to all the questions.

We can expect a new quiz next month. Hopefully no one will hit the
'reply all' :)

Best of luck.

Shreeja

On Jan 28, 6:54 pm, "Akshay Jain" <a...@akshayjain.org> wrote:
> Hi Shreeja
>
> 1. In 1938, Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew Milton Sirotta coined the  
> term googol; A googol is the large number , that is, the digit 1 followed  
> by one hundred zeros
>
> 2. Larry's research project was named "BackRub"
>
> 3. Andy is co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
>
> 4. The first one is Adwords for sure. The second one will be Adsense (if  
> you consider Adsense as a completely different thing from Adwords but they  
> are inter-related).
>
> 5. Eric Schmidt is the CEO.
>
> 6. GOogle Pagerank.
>
> 7. Blogger
>
> 8. AOL
>
> 9. USENET
>
> 10. GooglePLex
>
> I think I have answered all of them correctly. Just hope that no one was  
> before me ;) Saw the email 5minutes back.
>
> Akshay
>

> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:00:31 +0530, <shreejai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear Ambassadors,
>
> > As much as we are convinced that all our ambassadors have a great IQ,
> > use this opportunity to convince us that your GQ (yes, Google
> > Quotient) is high too!
>
> > Please find below a few questions about Google, that we have put
> > together. They are basic, relatively easy, and shouldn’t take more
> > than 15 minutes of your time. The first person who writes back to

> > shre...@google.com before 2nd Feb ’09, with all the right answers will

[Akshay Jain]

hmm no one with all the correct answers? Thats strange. I think Aditya
was pretty close.

And ya it would be great if you can inform us of the time for the quiz
next month before hand because it puts the person who sees the quiz
first at a clear advantage.

Akshay

[Aditya Krishnan]

yeah, I was pretty sure I had them all too. Anyway. We shall see what we shall see. 

[Varun Chhabria]

Woah! I thought Aditya had it.. And looking at everybody's response I didn't bother reading the answers! Thought he was right :P 

Ok I'm gonna go ahead and give this a shot now. 

[Radhika Bansal]

hahaha....that was pretty good..thanks a lot akshay...it just added to our google knowledge... :)....and when do all of us get to meet each other ???

AIESEC in Delhi University
mob:0091 9871568586
email: radhika...@gmail.com

[Akshay Jain]

My pleasure Radhika.

I am doubtful on one of the questions , the answer to which does not seem
very apt. But dont know what are the true answers myself.

Anyone else has submitted answers yet (apart from Aditya and me)?

Akshay

[Varun Chhabria]

Yeah I attempted them. :) 

[Aditya Krishnan]

i'm absolutely sure of the one me and Akshay discussed... although there is ONE other that bugs me. 

[Akshay Jain]

hmm is it the two arms of Revenue generation?

[Saurav Bajaj]

i thought i had sent the answers one hr after i got the mail.....sadly it seems they were wrong....

[Aditya Krishnan]

No, there really isn't much else... AW and AS are the only feasible ones afaik... It's the Time Warner one

[Akshay Jain]

hmm the timewarner one is pretty sure AOL only. This is because there
are hardly many companies which google has agreement with to provide
"search and advertising"

Moreover, if you search anything on AOL , then you will see "enhanced
by Google" logo. So that means that the answer to that one is
definately correct.

The answer to the revenue generation could be wrong because Adsense
"advertisers" use Adwords only. So its like, the revenue is generated
from Adwords for ads which can then be displayed by the Google search
results or the Publishers of adsense. So, I dont think they are two
different arms as such. They are more inter-related than they are
seperate. At max, the two arms could be "Search engine advertisements"
and "Adsense advertisements" but such a classification is not a very
popular one.

Lets wait for the answers.

On Jan 29, 9:09 pm, Aditya Krishnan <krishnan.adi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, there really isn't much else... AW and AS are the only feasible ones
> afaik... It's the Time Warner one
>

[shreeja ms]

Hi Akshay,

We really want everyone to be active on the group, that's the very purpose of forming the group.

The winner would, however, will be the one who responds first with all correct answers.

Between, Aditya was certainly close :)

Good luck to all.

Shreeja

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Akshay Jain <a...@akshayjain.org> wrote:

[Aditya Krishnan]

Are multiple attempts allowed. Like, can I re-send the answers?

[Ramya]

hey!
I certainly would wish the same too! But i doubt its allowed:)

Ramya!


On Jan 30, 11:51 am, Aditya Krishnan <krishnan.adi...@gmail.com>
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[Akshay Jain]

when are the correct answers coming out? isnt the quiz over? (2nd
february was the last date right? )