Search Engine Open Response

Larry Page and Sergey Brin helped transform the Internet by creating Google, a search engine designed to organize enormous amounts of online information. This passage introduces students to their backgrounds, shared interest in computers, and meeting at Stanford University, where they began working together on a research project.

This worksheet explains how Page and Brin developed a new way of ranking websites based on their importance and connections to other pages. Students follow Google’s growth from a university project into one of the world’s most influential technology companies. The passage gives readers practice identifying main ideas, understanding technological problem-solving, and recognizing how curiosity, collaboration, and a new approach to an existing problem can produce an innovation used around the world.