Google is the World's Largest Seach Engine
谷歌是世界上最大的搜索引擎
What is Google company’s mission?
谷歌公司的宗旨是什么?
Google's mission is to organize the world’s information, making it universally accessible and useful.
谷歌的宗旨是匯集全球的信息資源,使全球都能存取信息并加以利用。
When did you start this company? What was your initial motivation and how do you see it nowadays?
這個(gè)公司是什么時(shí)候創(chuàng)立的?你們最初建立這個(gè)公司的動(dòng)機(jī)是什么?現(xiàn)在怎么看?
We started working on Google in 1995,as a research project at Stanford University.
我們1995年開始著手谷歌的工作,當(dāng)時(shí)只是斯坦福大學(xué)的一個(gè)研究項(xiàng)目。
In 1998,we formed the company, Google Inc., and launched the search engine in beta to the outside world.
1998年,我們正式成立了谷歌有限公司,并且對(duì)外發(fā)布了公開測(cè)試版的谷歌搜索引擎。
This happened in September 1998.
這是1998年的9月的事兒了。
Our goal was to created a very simple and easy-to-use website that offers the best search engine in the world.
當(dāng)時(shí)我們的目標(biāo)是創(chuàng)立世界上最簡(jiǎn)單、實(shí)用的網(wǎng)絡(luò)搜索引擎。
This is still our goal, and we plan to continue to focus our business on search technology for some time to come.
現(xiàn)在這依然是我們的目標(biāo),同時(shí)我們將繼續(xù)集中精力研發(fā)搜索技術(shù)。
What kind of customers look for Google services and what are your company main clients?
哪些客戶會(huì)對(duì)谷歌提供的服務(wù)感興趣?貴公司有哪些主要客戶?
How fast Google wants to expand its solutions to other countries around the world?
谷歌想要花多長(zhǎng)時(shí)間將其解決方案擴(kuò)展到世界上其他國(guó)家?
We have over 100 customers in over 20 countries.
我們?cè)?0多個(gè)國(guó)家擁有超過100個(gè)客戶。
Some of our banner customers include Yahoo,AOL/ Netscape, Cisco, WashingtonPost.com, and VirginNet (in the UK).
包括雅虎、美國(guó)在線/網(wǎng)景公司、思科、華盛頓郵報(bào)網(wǎng)站和維珍網(wǎng)(英國(guó))等,都是我們極好的用戶。
Google customers license our technology because they are looking for the fastest, most relevant search on the Internet.
谷歌的客戶之所以使用我們的技術(shù)是因?yàn)樗麄円恢倍甲非笞羁焖佟⒆罹珳?zhǔn)的網(wǎng)絡(luò)搜索。
Google currently supports 25 language searches, and will continue to aggressively add to this list.
現(xiàn)在,谷歌支持25種語(yǔ)言的搜索,將來(lái),我們還會(huì)持續(xù)不斷地增加更多種語(yǔ)言版本。
We ultimately hope to support all major languages in the world.
我們希望最終可以支持用所有世界上的主流語(yǔ)言來(lái)使用我們的技術(shù)。
How fast revenues are growing? Are there any plans for an IPO?
收入的增長(zhǎng)有多快呢?有上市的計(jì)劃嗎?
We're very happy with our business plan.
我們對(duì)自己的商業(yè)計(jì)劃感到非常滿意。
Revenues are growing every quarter and we’ve made very few changes to our business strategy since we started the company.
每一季收入都持續(xù)增長(zhǎng),并且自從公司成立以來(lái),我們很少改變商業(yè)戰(zhàn)略。
In an IPO is something we’re considering, but is not in our near-term plans.
我們正在考慮上市,但卻并不是我們的近期計(jì)劃。
We’ve always managed the finances of our company very carefully,
我們總是對(duì)公司的財(cái)務(wù)精打細(xì)算,
and we are fortunate to still have a very strong cash position from our initial venture financing, which was in June 1999.
幸運(yùn)的是,自從1999年6月啟動(dòng)資金以來(lái),我們一直保持著很好的現(xiàn)金狀況。
How did business over Internet has change the use of Google widening client’s base and for searching tools?
網(wǎng)絡(luò)商業(yè)運(yùn)作對(duì)谷歌不斷擴(kuò)大的客戶群以及搜索工具都有什么影響?
We have millions of users a day who use Google to search for products and product information related to their purchasing decisions.
每天有數(shù)百萬(wàn)的用戶通過谷歌搜索他們想要購(gòu)買的產(chǎn)品和相關(guān)的產(chǎn)品信息。
For example, we index almost the entire Amazon.com website.
比如說(shuō),我們的搜索范圍幾乎涵蓋了整個(gè)亞馬遜購(gòu)物網(wǎng)。
As more and more information appears on the Internet, Google plans to index it and offer this content to our users.
隨著互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的信息越來(lái)越多,谷歌搜索將不斷地?cái)U(kuò)大搜索范圍,把這些信息提供給我們的用戶。
Google currently is the world’s largest search engine, with over 1 billion web pages in our index.
目前,谷歌是世界上最大的搜索引擎,通過它可以搜索到超過10億個(gè)網(wǎng)頁(yè)的信息。
What are your responsibilities at Google? Rapidly, describe your daily tasks at Google?
在谷歌你們各自的職責(zé)是什么?能否簡(jiǎn)要地說(shuō)一下你們每天都做些什么?
Both my partner, Larry Page, and myself are very involved in almost all aspects of our business.
我和我的搭檔拉里佩奇,我們的工作幾乎涉及到公司運(yùn)作的方方面面。
I spend quite a bit of time each day on hiring, internal management, and marketing.
每天我都要花很多時(shí)間在人力資源、內(nèi)部管理和市場(chǎng)運(yùn)作上。