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"Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one," wrote Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the search firm’s foun
"Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one," wrote Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the search firm’s foun
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2014-01-09
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"Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one," wrote Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the search firm’s founders, in a letter to investors ahead of its stock market flotation in 2004. Since then, Google has burnished its reputation as one of the quirkiest companies on the planet. This year alone it has raised eyebrows by taking a stake in a wind-energy project off the east coast of America and by testing self-driving cars, which have already covered over 140,000 miles (225,000km) on the country’s roads.
Google has been able to afford such flights of fancy thanks to its amazingly successful online-search business. This has produced handsome returns for the firm’s investors, who have seen the company transform itself in the space of a mere 12 years from a tiny start-up into a behemoth with a $180 billion market capitalization that sprawls across a vast headquarters in Silicon Valley known as the Googolplex. Google also stretches across the web like a giant spider, with a leg in everything from online search and e-mail to social networking and web-based software applications, or apps.
Much of its growth has been organic, but Google has also splashed out on some sizeable acquisitions. In 2006 it paid $1. 7 billion for You Tube, a website that lets people post videos of their children, kittens and Lady Gaga impersonations. The following year it snapped up Double-Click, an online-advertising network, for $ 3. 1 billion. More deals are likely. Google is bidding for Group on, a trendy e-commerce business, using some of the $ 33 billion sitting in its coffers.
All this has turned Google into a force to be reckoned with. But now the champion of the unorthodox is faced with two conventional business challenges. The first involves placating regulators, who fret that it may be abusing its considerable power. On November 30th the European Union announced a formal investigation into claims that Google has been manipulating search results to give an unfair advantage to its own services—a charge the firm vigorously denies. In America, Google faces a similar investigation in Texas and is also battling with a bunch of online-travel companies who have been lobbying the government to veto its recent purchase of ITA Software, a company that provides data about flights.
The other challenge facing Google is how to find new sources of growth. In spite of all the experiments it has launched, the firm is still heavily dependent on search related advertising. Last year this accounted for almost all of its $ 24 billion of revenue and $ 6. 5 billion of profit. Acquisitions such as You Tube have deepened rather than reduced the firm’s dependence on advertising. Steve Ballmer, the boss of Google’s arch-rival Microsoft, has derided the search company for being "a one trick pony".
Ironically, investors’ biggest worry is that Google will end up like Microsoft, which has failed to find big new sources of revenue and profit to replace those from its two ageing ponies, the Windows operating system and the Office suite of business software. That explains why Google’s share price has stagnated. "The market seems to believe this could be like Microsoft version two," says Mark Mahoney, an analyst at Citigroup. News of the formal EU antitrust enquiry will no doubt invite further comparisons with Mr. Ballmer’s firm, which fought a long and bruising battle with European regulators.
Is such a comparison fair? Those who think it is point to several changes that could damage Google. The first is the rise of new ways in which people can find information online. They include social networks such as Facebook, which saw traffic to its site in America surpass that to Google’s sites earlier this year, and apps offered by Apple and other firms that help people find information without using a web browser.
Which is the best title of the passage?
选项
A、The Prosperity of Giant Google
B、The Tough Days of Giant Google
C、How Is Google Different from Others?
D、How Long Will Google’s Magic Last?
答案
D
解析
主旨题。本文开篇介绍谷歌是一家非传统型公司,其特立独行让它在短短的12年间成长为互联网巨擘。之后提到谷歌公司的成长模式。第四段话锋一转,指出谷歌现在面临的两个商业挑战。接着作者谈及投资者的担忧以及市场的反应,末段指出现在互联网领域的几个变化可能会毁掉谷歌公司。由此可见,作者在肯定创造的非凡成绩的同时,也表达了对于谷歌公司前景的担忧,[D]很好地概括了这两方面的意思,故为答案。[A]是本文前三段提到的内容,是部分大意,而非主旨;同理.[B]是后面几段涉及的内容,排除;文章虽然开篇就提到谷歌的特立独行,但在后面的分析中并未就此展开说明,[C]B主旨,排除。
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