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Questions

1. In which country is Yandex the largest resource on the Net, based on audience size and penetration?

2. What has been named `Gran Paradiso Alpha 1'?

3. Name the hard-drive pioneer who founded Seagate Technology, who passed away recently.

4. Which Web site had its genesis in a March 2000 merger between Confinity and X.com?

5. Who has Time magazine named `Person of the Year' for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet content?

6. Recently, Russian Standard, controlled by Roustam Tariko, paid $3 million for which domain that is essential to its main brand?

7. Name the project that has EU funding, and involving libraries and digital preservation groups, aimed at warding off a `digital black hole.'

8. For what was Google recently awarded Design Patent No. 533,561?

9. One more on Google. What did the online search giant launch, in beta version, on December 14?

10. Which was the only IBM site in `Second Life' as at the middle of December?

Answers

1. Russia

2. Mozilla's alpha version of Firefox 3.

3. Al Shugart

4. PayPal

5. You

6. Vodka.com

7. Planets consortium

8. `The ornamental design for a graphical user interface'.

9. Google Patent Search.

10. A mock-up of its Almaden Research Center.