Google's search engine is so widespread across the world that search became Google, and google became a verb.
谷歌的搜索引擎在全球如此流行,以至于搜索变成了谷歌,而谷歌也变成了一个动词。
It was Page who, at Stanford in 1996, initiated the academic project that eventually became Google's search engine.
1996年,佩奇在斯坦福大学发起了一个学术项目,该项目最终成为了谷歌的搜索引擎。
He quotes Google co-founder Larry Page to the effect that the 'perfect search engine' will ''understand exactly what I mean and give me back exactly what I want.'
They were both Ph.D. candidates when they devised the search engine which was better than the rest and, without any marketing, spread by word of mouth from early adopters to, eventually, your grandmother.