Internet Entrepreneur

The Fast Rise YouTube.com In February 2005, three former colleagues from PayPal started a business called YouTube. All three graduated from college. YouTube quickly begun one of the most popular websites in the world, in fact it continually ranks in the top ten most visited sites. Because of its soaring popularity, the three men were able to move to a small building in San Mateo and later to a bigger building in San Bruno California. Internet users can use YouTube with no charges. The websites gains its revenue through advertising. In general the website allows users to view video clips from the movie, television or music industries uploaded by other users.

University Research Project to Multi-Billion Dollar Baby Google was started by two graduate students from Stanford University. Larry page and Sergey Brin were studying for their Ph.D. degrees when they started the project which turns into Google. They believed that pages with the most links from other important sites on the internet are likely to be the most relevant to the person conducting the search. At first, men conducted their studies on campus, but eventually they moved off campus and officially incorporated their company from a friend`s garage in Menlo Park California. Today millions of users visit google.com to search the internet and are drawn by its simple and easy to use design and the fact that the site is free. Google sells advertising by the popularity of a keyword and not just banner ads that are so popular on other websites. They never finished graduate school but they are now two of the most famous men in Silicon Valley - the home of many technology start-up companies.

Questions 1. Based from the reading jigsaw, write a comparison paragraph about the company. How they are similar and how they are different?

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1. A _____ is a Doctor of Philosophy degree that some people pursue after graduating with a Bachelor`s or Master`s Degree. 2. People like to search the internet to find interesting ______ to the subject they are studying. 3. The three owners of YouTube work together before they started the company; they were ______ at PayPal. 4. Ads that stretch across a webpage are _________ ads. 5. Internet companies are important part of the _______________ industry. 6. for websites that don`t have any ___________, the site __________ revenue through advertising. 7. People are ________ to websites that are free and easy to use. 8. Google gains its popularity because it linked users to the most __________ sites. 9. YouTube gains its popularity because users could _________ their video clips for users to view while searching the site. 10. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was a ____________ student at Harvard University, but is now in Silicon Valley where his _____________ company could become a vital part of Silicon Valley and the technology ____________. 11. Many Internet Entrepreneurs ___________ business in dorm rooms, garages and small buildings before becoming _______________.