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 miion?谷歌公司的宗旨是什么？
B: Google\'s miion is to organize the world’s information, making it universally acceible 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 motivation and 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 at Stanford University.In 1998，we formed the company, Google Inc., and launched the search engine in beta to the outside world.This happened in September 1998.Our goal was to created a very simple and easy-to-use website that offers the best search engine in the world.This is still our goal, and we plan to continue to focus our busine on search technology for 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 your company main clients? How fast Google wants to expand its solutions to other 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 banner customers include Yahoo!，AOL/ Netscape, Cisco, WashingtonPost.com, and VirginNet (in the UK).Google customers license our technology because they are looking for the fastest, most relevant search on the Internet.Google currently supports 25 language searches, and will continue to aggreively add to this list.We ultimately hope to support all major 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 plans 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 busine plan.Revenues are growing every quarter and we’ve made very few changes to our busine strategy since we started the company.An IPO is something we’re considering, but is not in our near-term plans.We’ve always managed the finances of our company very carefully, and we are fortunate to still have a very strong cash 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 busine over Internet has change the use of Google widening 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 for products and product information related to their purchasing decisions.For example, we index almost the entire Amazon.com website.As more and more information appears on the Internet, Google plans to index it and offer this content to our users.Google currently is the world’s largest search 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 daily tasks 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 almost all aspects of our busine.I spend quite a bit of time each day on hiring, internal management, and marketing.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 this question.We support our partners in a variety of ways, from simply providing the world’s best search technology, to co-marketing, to providing technological aistance, 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 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？
B: Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing.We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.This has helped Google immensely, and has helped our website 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 Google works? How is the coordination and management (servers, directories, contribution, staff payment)? How many people are involved? What are the main problems? Does Google have a central office somewhere or a HQ?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 Silicon Valley—in Mountain View, California, which is about 10 minutes from Stanford University, where Google was born.We also have a small sales office in New York City， with about 10 employees who sell advertising for us.In total, we have just over 150 employees.Most of these employees are involved with our technology and engineering department.We have over 30 PHD’s in this group! Google’s servers (we have over 6,000 servers that run RedHat 6.2) are hosted at three data centers acro the 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 served using its tools? Can you describe something that really helped the project to succeeded? Have any idea of number of sites using Google search engine? 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 own website , and over 50 million searches per day on our own site and our partner websites.Having so many smart and talented employees has really helped our company succeed.There are over 25,000 websites on the 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-use interface, high performance, and an exclusive focus on just being a search engine.We also offer cool features like caches pages, stock quotes, news headlines, links to online maps.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 Software Engineering (SE): How many people work in SE activities developing google 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 big fans 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 the analysis and programming tools used? Are there any special quality control, auditing on code produced? What are the main projects under way?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 vice versa, and everyone talks a lot.Communication is very good between both 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 of our own software, n addition to rsync.Machines are built on-site here at Google, configured, then shipped over to one of our three data centers.We have a detailed regimen for code reviews and testing (QA).The main projects we，re working on, outside of improving the overall quality of our search engine are: Google d\' search technology, a variety of voice recognition projects, and Google international search technology bringing Google 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 hat Linux servers.I read that Google system install and configure 80 servers at a time.What kind of tools coordinate this ma installation? What are the administrative tools used to monitor, check and replace servers failures? How is Linux used at the Google Projects? Why was Linux chosen 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 used every where...on the 6,000servers themselves, as well as desktop machines for all of our technical employees.We chose Linux because if offers us the price for performance ratio.It’s so nice to be able to customize any part of the operating system that we like, at anytime.We have a large degree of in-house Linux expertise, too.Most of our administrative tools were developed in-house, 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 acceible to the outside world.The outside-acceible machines (web servers) are carefully audited for security holes.We also use h 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h。
