创业成功人士访谈录 第6期:谷歌CTO谢尔盖布林(6)

 　　You’ve had a variety of new things come up over the past year.

　　去年你们作了很多新的开发。
　　What do you like the most?
　　您最喜欢的是什么？
　　I’m really excited about our self-serve AdSense.
　　自助广告业务的开通真的让我很兴奋。
　　I think this is changing webmasters’lives.
　　我想这正在改变网络管理人员的生活。
　　They can make money on something that was a hobby, and they don’t have to do weird 1 search deals.
　　他们可以用自己的爱好赚钱，并且不需要做各种奇怪的搜索生意。
　　I’m hoping that it can help spur the next generation of content development on the Web.
　　我希望这可以激励下一代网站内容的开发。
　　创业成功人士英语访谈 谷歌技术总裁谢尔盖.布林
　　You can’t do a good job of search unless what you’re looking for is out there.
　　除非你想要找的东西是公开的，否则你无法把搜索工作做得很出色。
　　Is Google a technology company or a media company?
　　谷歌是一个技术公司还是传媒公司？
　　Google has an important technology component 2.
　　谷歌有一个很重要的技术组成部分。
　　But we also care about the utility of the technology and for our advertising 3 network and publishers.
　　但我们同样关心技术的应用，以及广告网络和出版商。
　　So, I think we’re a technology company that applies technology to media.
　　因此，我认为谷歌是一个致力于将技术应用于传媒的技术公司。
　　Are there any circumstances in which Google might buy Microsoft? Or, the opposite?
　　谷歌是否有可能会收购微软？或者被微软收购？
　　I think there are a lot of liabilities in acquiring Microsoft.
　　我认为要收购微软我们会欠下很多债务。
　　Over time, there have been a number of companies that have approached us.
　　长期以来，已经有很多公司与我们进行洽谈。
　　We’ve always said ‘no’thus far.
　　至今我们一直都在拒绝。
　　We think our company has a lot of promise.
　　我们认为谷歌很有前途。
　　We’re pleased with the trajectory 4 that we’re on and so it’s not a very likely thing to happen in my mind.
　　我们对现在运行的轨道很满意，所以，在我看来，这是不太可能发生的事。
　　But it would be silly to discount a serious approach from anyone.
　　但是，对一次严肃认真的洽谈不作考虑，是很愚蠢的行为。
　　What do you do to go beyond links as a way of improving results?
　　你们如何超载链接以完善搜索结果？
　　There are completely new ranking technologies that we are working on.
　　我们现在正在开发全新的排名技术。
　　We try about a half-dozen a month and launch on a limited test basis.
　　我们一个月作6次尝试并在一个受限制的测试平台上发布。
　　We fundamentally work with all of the world’s knowledge.
　　我们的工作基本上涉及到世界上所有的知识。
　　There are just different ways to approach that.
　　有很多不同的方式对它们进行了解。
　　There are many, many things you can do, and we’re not going to exhaust them any time soon.
　　你可以做的事情有很多很多，我们不会很快将他们做完。
　　Over time, our searches will only get better.
　　随着时间的推移，我们的搜索只会越来越好。
　　Will you ever consider supporting paid inclusion?
　　你们会考虑接受赞助商付费排名吗？
　　You want to keep any kind of payment separate from organic search results.
　　要把任何付费赞助与原始搜索结果分开。
　　I think it’s important to distinguish those things.
　　我认为这些东西一定要区分开来，这很重要。
　　What do you think remains 5 largely unknown about Google?
　　你觉得谷歌在哪些方面仍需要提高知名度？
　　The tilde operator.
　　模糊检索。
　　A new search command that enables users to search not only for a particular keyword, but also for its synonyms 6.
　　我们有一个新的搜索命令，让用户不仅可以对关键词进行搜索，而且也支持近义词检索。
　　This is accomplished 7 by placing a character directly in front of the keyword in the search box.
　　用户只需在搜索栏中输入的关键词前边加上一个波浪线符号就可实现。
　　The calculator, which enables users to solve mathematic problems by entering numeric expressions into the google.com or the Google Toolbar search boxes.
　　还有计算器，用户可以在谷歌主页或谷歌搜索栏中输入数学表达式，系统就会解决数学问题。
　　Could you briefly 8 tell us something about yourself and how you came to work at Google?
　　能不能简要地给大家介绍一下您自己以及怎么到谷歌来工作的？
　　I was born in Moscow and came to the United States at the age of six.
　　我出生在莫斯科，6岁的时候来到了美国。
　　I grew up in Maryland, then went to the computer science program at Stanford.
　　我在马里兰长大，后来，从1993年开始我攻读斯坦福大学的计算机科学专业。
　　I started there in 1993，where I worked on data mining,
　　我在那儿做数据开发，基本上是对大量的数据进行分析，
　　which basically involves analyzing 9 vast amounts of data to find interesting correlations 10 and patterns.
　　并从中找到有趣的相互关系和形式。
　　Then Larry joined in 1995,
　　1995年拉里加入，和我一起工作。
　　He started downloading the Web and we analyzed 11 its link structure.
　　他开始下载网页，我们一起对链接结构进行分析。
　　We’ve worked together from then on.
　　从那时起我们就在一起共事了。