搜索引擎谷歌总裁演讲稿

创业成功人士英语访谈谷歌技术总裁谢尔盖.布林

A:What is Google company’s mission?谷歌公司的宗旨是什么

B:Google's mission is to organize the world’s information,making ituniversally accessible and useful.谷歌的宗旨是汇集全球的信息资源使全球都能存取信息并加以利用。

A:When did you start this company?What was your initial motivationand how do you see it nowadays?这个公司是什么时候创立的你们最初建立这个公司的动机是什么现在怎么看

B:We started working on Google in 1995  as a research project atStanford Univers ity. In 1998 we formed the company,Google Inc., andlaunched the search engine in beta to the outside world.This happened inSeptember 1998.Our goal was to created a very simple and easy-to-usewebsite that offers the best search engine in the world.This is still ourgoal, and we plan to continue to focus our business on search technologyfor some time to come.我们1995年开始着手谷歌的工作当时只是斯坦福大学的一个研究项目。 1998年我们正式成立了谷歌有限公司并且对外发布了公开测试版的谷歌搜索引擎。这是1998年的9月的事儿了。当时我们的目标是创立世界上最简单、实用的网络搜索引擎。现在这依然是我们的目标同时我们将继续集中精力研发搜索技术。

A:What kind of customers look for Google services and what are yourcompany main clients?How fast Google wants to expand its solutions toother countries around the world?哪些客户会对谷歌提供的服务感兴趣贵公司有哪些主要客户谷歌想要花多长时间将其解决方案扩展到世界上其他国家

B:We have over 100 customers in over 20 countries.Some of our bannercustomers inc lude Yaho o! AOL/Nets c ap e,Cisc o,WashingtonP ost.c om,and VirginNet (in the UK).Google customers license our technologybecause they are looking for the fastest,most relevant search on theInternet. Google currently supports 25 language searches, and willcontinue to aggressively add to this list.We ultimately hope to support allmajor languages in the world.我们在20多个国家拥有超过100个客户。包括雅虎、美国在线/网景公司、思科、华盛顿邮报网站和维珍网英国等 都是我们极好的用户。谷歌的客户之所以使用我们的技术是因为他们一直都追

求最快速、最精准的网络搜索。现在谷歌支持25种语言的搜索将来 我们还会持续不断地增加更多种语言版本。我们希望最终可以支持用所有世界上的主流语言来使用我们的技术。

A:How fast revenues are growing?Are there any p lans for an IPO?收入的增长有多快呢有上市的计划吗

B:We're very happy with our business plan.Revenues are growing everyquarter and we’ve made very few changes to our business strategy sincewe started the company.An IPO is something we’re considering,but isnot in our near-term plans.We’ve always managed the finances of ourcompany very carefully, and we are fortunate to still have a very strongcash position from our initial venture financing,which was in June 1999.我们对自己的商业计划感到非常满意。每一季收入都持续增长并且自从公司成立以来我们很少改变商业战略。我们正在考虑上市但却并不是我们的近期计划。我们总是对公司的财务精打细算幸运的是 自从1999年6月启动资金以来我们一直保持着很好的现金状况。

A:How did business over Internet has change the use of Googlewidening client’s base and for searching tools?网络商业运作对谷歌不断扩大的客户群以及搜索工具都有什么影响

B:We have millions of users a day who use Google to search forproducts and product information related to their purchasing decisions.For example,we index almost the entire Amazon.com website.As moreand more information appears on the Internet,Google plans to index itand offer this content to our users.Google currently is the world’s largestsearch engine,with over 1 billion web pages in our index.每天有数百万的用户通过谷歌搜索他们想要购买的产品和相关的产品信息。比如说我们的搜索范围几乎涵盖了整个亚马逊购物网。随着互联网的信息越来越多谷歌搜索将不断地扩大搜索范围把这些信息提供给我们的用户。 目前谷歌是世界上最大的搜索引擎通过它可以搜索到超过10亿个网页的信息。

A:What are your responsibilities at Google?Rapidly,describe your dailytasks at Google?在谷歌你们各自的职责是什么能否简要地说一下你们每天都做些什么

B:Both my partner,Larry Page, and myself are very involved in almostall aspects of our business. I spend quite a bit of time each day on hiring,

interna l manag eme nt, and market ing.我和我的搭档拉里?佩奇我们的工作几乎涉及到公司运作的方方面面。每天我都要花很多时间在人力资源、内部管理和市场运作上。

A:How does Google collaborate with its partners?谷歌怎样与各方合作伙伴进行合作呢

B:Each of our partner relationships is unique, so it’s hard to answer thisquestion.We support our partners in a variety of ways, from simplyproviding the world’s best search technology, to co-marketing, toproviding technological as sistanc e,etc.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。我们通过多种途径为客户提供支持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。

A:What are the Google marketing strategies and alliances in order tokeep 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

B:Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing.Wehave a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about oursearch engine.This has helped Google immensely, and has helped ourwebsite traffic grow over 20%per month since we started our company in

1998.实际上谷歌是通过客户来维持市场的。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。这在很大程度上帮助了谷歌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。

A How is Google organized?Try to give us an idea of how Googleworks?How is the coordination and management (servers, directories,contribution, staff payment)?How many people are involved?What arethe main problems?Does Google have a central office somewhere or aHQ?谷歌的组织结构是怎样的请给我们讲讲谷歌是怎样运作的如何协调和管理包括服务器、董事、分担款项、员工薪金 有多少名雇员主要的问题是什么谷歌有核心办公室或者总部吗

B Google has two offices.Our headquarters are in the heart of SiliconValley—in Mountain View,California,which is about 10 minutes fromStanford University,where Google was born.We also have a small salesoffice in New York City with about 10 employees who sell advertisingfor us. In total,we have just over 150 employees.Most of theseemployees are involved with our techno logy and engineering department.

We have over 30 PHD’s in this group!Google’s servers (we have over6,000 servers that run RedHat 6.2)are hosted at three data centers acrossthe US-one in the Washington DC area, and two in Silicon Valley.谷歌有两个办公地点。我们的总部在硅谷的中心——距斯坦福大学10分钟路程的谷歌诞生地加州山景城。 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。我们总共有超过150多名员工。 他们大多在技术和工程部门工作。我们这个团队有30多名博士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—个在华盛顿地区 另外两个在硅谷。

A:Please, evaluate rapidly Google evolution in terms of pages servedusing its tools?Can you describe something that really helped the projectto succeeded?Have any idea of number of sites using Google searchengine?Number of pages served by google engine every day?请您从捜索引擎使用率的方面评价一下谷歌近期的发展是什么使之走向成功您知道现在有多少个网站在使用谷歌搜索引擎吗每天有多少个网页通过谷歌搜索

B:Google currently servers over 20 million searches per day on our ownwebsite , and over 50 million searches per day on our own site and ourpartner websites.Having so many smart and talented employees hasreally helped our company succeed.There are over 25,000 websites onthe Internet that use the Google search engine.目前每天人们在谷歌的主页进行的操作超过2000万次。加上在我们合作伙伴页面上的搜索次数超过5000万次。我们有很多聪明且有才能的员工他们创造了谷歌的成功。有超过2.5万个网站在使用谷歌搜索引擎。

A:Why should a site choose Google search engine instead of others?What are the better features Google bring to users?这些网站为什么选择谷歌搜索 而不是其他的搜索引擎谷歌都为用户们提供哪些特色服务呢

B:Google offers users better quality search results, a simple, easy-to-useinterface,high performance,and an exclus ive focus on just being a searchengine.We also offer cool features like caches pages, stock quotes,newsheadlines, links to online map s.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。 同时它不仅仅是一个搜索引擎。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。

A:Let’s talk about Research and Development (R&D) and SoftwareEngineering (SE):How many people work in SE activities developinggoogle main tools?What is its policy toward investment in R&D?现在我们来谈一谈研发和软件工程有多少员工从事开发谷歌的主要工具对研发的投资有什么政策

B:We have about 80 engineers and R&D team members, and we’re bigfans of investing heavily in R&D.我们有大约80位工程师和研发团队职员我们对研发产业的投资从不吝惜。

A:How is the research&development coordinated?What are theanalys is and programming tools used?Are there any special qualitycontrol, auditing on code produced?What are the main projects underway?如何协调研发工作谷歌使用什么分析和编程工具呢有特别的质量控制及对产出代码的审查吗现在正在着手进行的主要项目是什么

B:They’re very closely intertwined; developers do research and viceversa, and everyone talks a lot.Communication is very good betweenboth of these groups.For programming we use gnu tools:gcc,gdb,gnats.We use p4 for version control.For network installs,we use a variety ofour own software,n addition to rsync.Machines are built on-site here atGoogle, configured, then shipped over to one of our three data centers.We have a detailed regimen for code reviews and testing(QA).The mainprojects we  re working on, outside of improving the overall quality ofour search engine are:Google d'ss search technology, a variety of voicerecognition projects,and Google international search technology bringingGoogle to more users worldwide.研究和发展这二者联系很紧密开发者要作研究反之亦然。同时每个人都热衷于表达自己的想法。团队间的沟通也非常不错。说到编程我们使用gnu工具gcc、 gdb和gnats。我们使用p4进行版本控制。至于网络安装 除了 rsync以外我们使用一系列自己的软件。机器就地安装、设置再转到我们的三个数据中心中的一个。我们有一套编码检查和测试的细则。除了不断提高我们搜索引擎的整体质量我们现在着手进行的主要项目是谷歌无线搜索技术即多种声音识别程序以及谷歌国际搜索技术将使世界上更多用户得以享受谷歌服务。

A:Currently,Google search engine runs in more than 5,000 Red hatLinux servers. I read that Google system install and configure 80 serversat a time.What kind of tools coordinate this mass installation?What arethe administrative tools used to monitor, check and replace servers

failures?How is Linux used at the Google Projects?Why was Linuxchosen to improve Google search engine?目前谷歌搜索引擎在超过5000个红帽公司Linux服务器上运行。我听说谷歌可以一次同时安装配置80个服务器。请问你们用什么样的工具来实现这种大量的同时安装用来监视、检查和修正服务器错误的管理工具是什么 Linux在谷歌的工程中起到了什么样的作用为什么选择Linux改善谷歌搜索引擎

B:Actuallywe currently run over 6,000 RedHat servers.Linux is usedevery where. . .on the 6,000servers themselves, as well as desktopmachines for all of our technical employees.We chose Linux because ifoffers us the price for performance ratio. It’s so nice to be able tocustomize any part of the operating system that we like, at anytime.Wehave a large degree of in-house Linux expertise, too.Most of ouradministrative tools were developed in-hous e, as well.事实上我们现在同时运行6000多个红帽服务器。所有地方都在用Linux,在这6000多个服务器上也在我们所有的技术工作人员的电脑上。我们之所以选择Linux,是因为其性价比很高。我们可以在任何时间根据我们自身的需要来修改操作系统中的任何一个部分这一点很好。同时我们有一支庞大的内部Linux团队。我们多数的管理工具也是内部开发的。

A:What is Google security policy and how is it implemented?谷歌的安全政策是什么是如何执行的

B:Most of our machines are behind a router and not accessible to theoutside world. The outside-accessible machines (web servers) arecarefully audited for security holes.We also use ssh an awful lot.我们的多数机器通过路由器连接外部不能进入。外部可以连通的机器网络服务器有很好的安全保护措施及时检查并修正所有安全漏洞。我们也经常使用ssh。