After months of speculation about what Amazon.com would + \4 z9 o: ?7 n5 w
do with its mysterious search-engine company, A9, Web
1 p/ E M. ]- Y7 X surfers finally got their first taste on Apr. 14. 6 s+ p* H$ R/ q: S: X5 K5 r0 C
Yet despite of some intriguing new features not yet found 1. % ]1 w8 O* o5 C* }9 w6 ]
on leading sites such as Google and Yahoo! , the site
( \, d6 I6 M: }3 ~/ F& Y3 E still in test mode -- rises as many questions 2.
+ ]8 ^# N0 V) E" r9 D as it answers.
: i. m9 l+ C% f) _' M The biggest question remains is whether Amazon, 3.
( W d- f9 ?' D1 s, f; j through A9, would clash into Google more directly. 4. " q" w4 N: ~, b5 G, R
Google itself is testing a search engine for products
, x% o5 N: x& G, q; p called Froogle that’s starting to appeal Web shoppers. 5. , G4 N0 J4 x( p6 ?/ w. ]" V2 X1 A
At the same time, Amazon clearly isn’t looking to limit A9’s horizons.
, d- ~+ R/ h, m) r) M How directly A9 eventually goes up against the reigned 6.
; I* A2 I! Q) H+ G search champion, it faced lots of challenges. For one, 7.
% w% j: I6 ~9 E it may run into some of the same privacy issues that 2 m0 ?5 |; M9 M/ U6 \' E* h Z
recently have plagued Google. A9’s privacy policy points
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or by signing into one’s Amazon account could supply the company 6 q1 n. p! j; `3 J* x0 _# m
with information that could personally identify the searcher.
( W$ m- M0 W O# o' u$ W+ o4 U" L Those may be somewhat less intrusive(打扰的,冒犯的) than 9. ; H6 n T7 j1 @# M: ^) S
Google’s upcoming Gmail free e-mail offering, which could search
1 w! b% W7 r l& l the contents of messages to pitch personalized ads. But comments
: u5 B8 z$ v) X$ [ posted on some sites already indicate some people are + {; e( L! d1 n$ ]' Q
uncomfortable with Google’s potential threats to privacy. 10. 3 q2 [' D- }# x& \; K; D1 R% f
% Y4 ~, @0 [- n. v9 A! g4 j 答案:
# g* E4 A/ V5 X1 f, R7 b7 K& a: S4 k) y 1.of去掉,despite sth; 9 ]5 g9 l% u+ P0 `
2. rises 改raise (提出,引起问题) ; 9 b2 v4 E8 P# |& H4 T- x1 b. J/ w+ E
3. question后加that; . Z! E$ F0 f( `" n% l; y( B' |
4. into 改with , clash with 与…冲突;
1 ]0 c% p: I; e3 ?' u1 Z 5. appeal 后面加to, appeal to 吸引;
$ i3 q( k9 }' ~, W 6. reigned 改reigning;此处是指占搜索引擎统治地位的Google, 不能用被动; + S1 B" s! T$ i) W
7. faced 改 faces;
7 q Q- Z; D6 Y( ~: D$ V 8. term 改 terms 条款; + v& R- [/ r! U* p& X: g& c$ m4 L
9. Those 改That , 这里that指上句话的意思,不用复数指代;
9 Z2 H1 `7 I Z) s% p0 F l3 g" C- d 10. Google改为A9, 逻辑上的错误 |