创业成功人士访谈录 第2期:谷歌CTO谢尔盖布林(2)

 　　How does Google collaborate¹ with its partners?

　　谷歌怎样与各方合作伙伴进行合作呢？

　　Each of our partner relationships is unique, so it’s hard to answer this question.

　　这个问题很难回答，因为谷歌的每一次合作都是独一无二的。

　　We support our partners in a variety of ways,

　　我们通过多种途径为客户提供支持，

　　from simply providing the world’s best search technology, to co-marketing², to providing technological³ assistance, etc.

　　小到仅仅提供世界上最好的搜索技术，大到联合开发市场、 提供技术支持等。

　　What are the Google marketing strategies and alliances in order to keep itself on the Internet market?

　　谷歌用什么样的市场战略和联合来保持自己在网络市场的地位呢？

　　Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing.

　　实际上，谷歌是通过客户来维持市场的。

　　We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.

　　很多用户会把我们的搜索引擎告诉其他并不熟悉谷歌的人,□□相传。

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　　This has helped Google immensely,

　　这在很大程度上帮助了谷歌，

　　and has helped our website traffic grow over 20% per month since we started our company in 1998.

　　自1998年谷歌成立以来，网站的点击率每月都以超过20%的速度在增长。

　　How is Google organized?

　　谷歌的组织结构是怎样的？

　　Try to give us an idea of how Google works?

　　请给我们讲讲谷歌是怎样运作的?

　　How is the coordination⁴ and management (servers, directories, contribution, staff payment)?

　　如何协调和管理（包括服务器、董事、分担款项、员工薪金)?

　　How many people are involved? What are the main problems?

　　有多少名雇员？主要的问题是什么？

　　Does Google have a central office somewhere or a HQ?

　　谷歌有核心办公室或者总部吗？

　　Google has two offices.

　　谷歌有两个办公地点。

　　Our headquarters are in the heart of Silicon⁵ Valley

　　我们的总部在硅谷的中心

　　—in Mountain View, California, which is about 10 minutes from Stanford University, where Google was born.

　　——距斯坦福大学10分钟路程的谷歌诞生地，加州山景城。

　　We also have a small sales office in New York City， with about 10 employees who sell advertising⁶ for us.

　　同时我们在纽约城有一个小销售办公室，大概有10名员工为我们做广告销售。

　　In total, we have just over 150 employees.

　　我们总共有超过150多名员工。

　　Most of these employees are involved with our technology and engineering department.

　　他们大多在技术和工程部门工作。

　　We have over 30 PHD’s in this group!

　　我们这个团队有30多名博士！

　　Google’s servers (we have over 6,000 servers that run RedHat 6.2) are hosted at three data centers across the US,

　　谷歌的服务器（我们有6000多个服务器 运行红帽子6.2系统）分布在美国的三个数据中心，

　　one in the Washington DC area, and two in Silicon Valley.

　　—个在华盛顿地区，另外两个在硅谷。

　　Please, evaluate rapidly Google evolution in terms of pages served using its tools?

　　请您从捜索引擎使用率的方面评价一下谷歌近期的发展？

　　Can you describe something that really helped the project to succeeded?

　　是什么使之走向成功？

　　Have any idea of number of sites using Google search engine?

　　您知道现在有多少个网站在使用谷歌搜索引擎吗？

　　Number of pages served by google engine every day?

　　每天有多少个网页通过谷歌搜索？

　　Google currently servers over 20 million searches per day on our own website,

　　目前，每天人们在谷歌的主页进行的操作超过2000万次，

　　and over 50 million searches per day on our own site and our partner websites.

　　加上在我们合作伙伴页面上的搜索次数，超过5000万次。

　　Having so many smart and talented employees has really helped our company succeed.

　　我们有很多聪明且有才能的员工，他们创造了谷歌的成功。

　　There are over 25,000 websites on the Internet that use the Google search engine.

　　有超过2.5万个网站在使用谷歌搜索引擎。

　　Why should a site choose Google search engine instead of others?

　　这些网站为什么选择谷歌搜索，而不是其他的搜索引擎？

　　What are the better features Google bring to users?

　　谷歌都为用户们提供哪些特色服务呢？

　　Google offers users better quality search results, a simple, easy-to-use interface⁷, high performance,

　　谷歌为用户提供吻合率更高的搜索结果，简洁且操作简单的搜索页面、高性能以及独特地对搜索引擎的关注。

　　and an exclusive focus on just being a search engine.

　　同时,它不仅仅是一个搜索引擎。

　　We also offer cool features like caches pages, stock quotes, news headlines, links to online maps.

　　我们还提供一些其他实用的功能，比如页面收藏、引用保存、重要新闻服务和在线地图等。

1 collaborate   

vi.协作，合作；协调

参考例句：

• The work gets done more quickly when we collaborate.我们一旦合作，工作做起来就更快了。
• I would ask you to collaborate with us in this work.我们愿意请你们在这项工作中和我们合作。

2 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

3 technological   

adj.技术的；工艺的

参考例句：

• A successful company must keep up with the pace of technological change.一家成功的公司必须得跟上技术变革的步伐。
• Today,the pace of life is increasing with technological advancements.当今， 随着科技进步，生活节奏不断增快。

4 coordination   

n.协调，协作

参考例句：

• Gymnastics is a sport that requires a considerable level of coordination.体操是一项需要高协调性的运动。
• The perfect coordination of the dancers and singers added a rhythmic charm to the performance.舞蹈演员和歌手们配合得很好，使演出更具魅力。

5 silicon   

n.硅(旧名矽)

参考例句：

• This company pioneered the use of silicon chip.这家公司开创了使用硅片的方法。
• A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.芯片就是一枚邮票大小的硅片。

6 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

7 interface   

n.接合部位，分界面；v.(使)互相联系

参考例句：

• My computer has a network interface,which allows me to get to other computers.我的计算机有网络接口可以与其它计算机连在一起。
• This program has perspicuous interface and extensive application. 该程序界面明了，适用范围广。