Watch out, Yahoo. There’s search engine out there with super speed and accuracy. It’s really cool.
Google is the Web’s largest search engine. In just two years it has gained a reputation for surprising speed and accuracy, delivering exactly what you’re looking for in a second. The site now does this 40 million times a day – a number achieved without spending a penny on a TV or newspaper ad.
Google doesn’t need them. In the past six months alone, the site has won a Webby (the online version of the Oscar) for technical excellence, set a new record for search engines by indexing a billion Web pages.
Yahoo still has 10 times the audience, but Google consistently ranks first in customer satisfaction: 97% of users find what they’re look for most or all the time. “You see people smile when they use it, like they’ve found something no one else knows about,” says Danny Sullivan, editor of an online newsletter.
No one is smiling more than Larry Page, 27, and Sergey Brin, 26, who seem certain to become billionaires when the company goes public, probable sometime next year. They make a great comedy duo. When they first met as Ph. D. students, the pair say, they found each other horrible – “I still find him horrible,” adds Brin – but were driven together by a computer – science project aimed at coming up with better ways of searching the Web.
The idea behind Google is that traditional search engines are stupid. They think relevance is based on repetition; if you type in a request for Tiger Woods, say, you’ll get websites listed according to how many times those words appear. Not only is this no guarantee of quality, but it’s also open to abuse. If you own a Tiger fan site and want to lead more people to it, simply type his name thousands of times in the site’s source code.
1.The first paragraph serves to .
A.compare two websites B.bring out the topic
C.put blame on Yahoo D.give the background of the topic
2.What does the underlined word “then” in the third paragraph refer to?
A.40 million times. B.Achievements.
C.TV and newspaper ads. D.Web pages.
3.Which of the following wins greater customer satisfaction?
A.Yahoo. B.Google. C.Page. D.Brin.
4.It can be inferred that Page and Brin .
A.work for Google B.are Tiger fans
C.hated each other D.work for Yahoo
5.We can learn from the last paragraph that .
A.Google is open to abuse
B.Google remains a traditional search engine
C.Google thinks relevance is based on repetition
D.Google is better than traditional search engines
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A. Profits enlarging B. Technology developing C. Education investing D. Benefits transferring E. Dominance disappearing F. A nation rising |
The following is an imaginary diary entry written by US president. This diary is part of Global Trends 2025, which was written by the US National Intelligence Council
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Global wealth and economic power will shift from West to East.
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The transition from old fuels to new will be slow, as will the development of new technologies that present feasible alternatives to fossil fuels or help eliminate food and water problems. All current technologies are inadequate, and new ones will probably not be commercially possible by 2025