谷歌CEO表态希望能重返中国大陆
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the Internet giant is open to returning its search business to China, if it could be done right, he told an industry conference.
日前,互联网巨头谷歌的首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊在行业会议上表示,如果一切顺利,谷歌将重新向中国开放搜索业务。"We can do it in the right and thoughtful way, we are always open to it," said Pichai at the Code conference here. "I care about serving consumers everywhere."
“我们会以正确、深思熟虑的方式来处理,我们持绝对的开放态度。”皮查伊在Code大会上说。“我希望看到谷歌的服务遍布每一个角落。”Google pulled out of mainland China and moved its Chinese-language search engine to Hong Kong in 2010 after a series of cyber attacks on Google originated in the country. Google also said it would stop censoring search results in China.
2010年,在遭受一系列网络攻击之后,谷歌退出中国大陆,将中文搜索的业务转向香港。谷歌公司还表示将停止在中国审查搜索结果。
The controversial move cut Google off from the fast-growing Chinese market, one that's been courted by rival Facebook and constitutes the second-biggest market for Apple.
发展迅速的中国市场一直受到竞争者脸书的青睐,也是苹果公司的第二大市场。因此,谷歌的退出引起了众多争议。Due to a reorganization last year, Brin and co-founder Larry Page now run Alphabet, a holding company that includes the company's "moonshot activities," while Pichai runs Google.
经过去年的重组之后,目前布林和共同创始人拉里·佩奇正在掌控研制“月球探测器”的母公司Alphabet,而皮查伊则负责谷歌业务。Much of Pichai's session at Code was devoted to Google's development of artificial intelligence for voice-activated searches. Pichai said Google sensed a shift in what it could do three to four years ago, performing more effective voice searches, and transitioned.
皮查伊在Code大会上的谈话主要涉及到谷歌研发语音搜索的人工智能技术。皮查伊表示,谷歌在三四年前才意识到语音搜索的有效性,所以改变了发展战略。"We saw significant step changes," he said. "We felt the inflection point and made a big shift internally."
“我们从中看到巨大的机会,”他说。“我们认为这是一个拐点,并在公司内部进行了重大改变。”Now one out of every five searches are done via voice, instead of keyboard typing, and Pichai expects that to greatly grow over the next years.
不用键盘打字而使用语音搜索的公司还不到五分之一。皮查伊预计,未来几年,语音搜索将呈现大幅增长。Google will release a voice-activated speaker, Google Home, similar to Amazon's Echo, later this year. Pichai said it will be different because it will play to Google's strengths. "We will be building a true conversational device."
今年晚些时候,谷歌将会推出与亚马逊的Echo类似的智能语音设备Google Home。皮查伊表示,Google Home的不同在于具有谷歌的优势。“我们将会配置真正的对话设备。”