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Google Assignment
Using your Google Docs account, create a new document and answer the following questions after watching the CNBC Documentary "Inside the Mind of Google".  You may copy/paste the questions into your own document.

1.  When and who created Google?

2.  Why does Google offer their employees such great benefits like food, laundry service, and transportation for FREE?

3.  What sets Google's homepage apart from its competition?

4.  Some critics say that using Google's tools are not actually "free", even though you don't pay money to use them.  What do they mean? 

5.  Is every Google search really anonymous (untraceable)?

6.  Does the 4th amendment protect your personal information stored online?

7.  How does Google make money?

8.  What is "cloud computing" and what are the advantages?

9.  Since Google has so much stored information about us, why do they claim we can trust them to keep our information safe?

10.  What unexpected and undesired (bad) things could happen as people become more addicted to using technologies like mobile devices, the Internet and computers?

Just For Fun-- Think You Know Google?  Take the Google IQ Quiz