前两天,谷歌实验室推出了一个新的产品“网站导航”。记得一看到这个应用我都怀疑是有些Gfans的恶搞作品…我实在想不明白为什么谷歌会出一个这么1.0的产品,而且还是经过谷歌实验室推出的。
事实证明,在Blog圈中和我一样不明白的不是少数。Fenng和zhan’bin还有Webleon都表示了对这个产品的疑问。为什么在大家眼中总是推出一些新奇事物的Google在变成谷歌之后就变成只能推出一个“拾人牙慧”的产品?一个典型的Web1.0时代的应用,值得通过谷歌实验室来推出么?
直到我看到zola的文章,我的头脑稍稍地清醒了一下。仔细想想”Ten things Google has found to be true“里面的第三点：
3. Fast is better than slow.
Google believes in instant gratification. You want answers and you want them right now. Who are we to argue? Google may be the only company in the world whose stated goal is to have users leave its website as quickly as possible. By fanatically obsessing on shaving every excess bit and byte from our pages and increasing the efficiency of our serving environment, Google has broken its own speed records time and again. Others assumed large servers were the fastest way to handle massive amounts of data. Google found networked PCs to be faster. Where others accepted apparent speed limits imposed by search algorithms, Google wrote new algorithms that proved there were no limits. And Google continues to work on making it all go even faster.
这条就是大家说的“要让用户尽快离开自己的网站”。Google作为一个提供搜索服务的公司,应该喂用户提供准确的搜索结果。所以用户越快地离开自己的网站,越能说明Google服务的优秀。按照现在中国的网民水平,因为找不准关键词，所以浪费在搜索引擎上的时间肯定不少。要问我这一点结论是怎么得到的?各位同学可以看看自己Blog访问统计的搜索引擎来访关键词,反正在我的关键词记录中有不少是没有掌握一个很好的搜索技巧的。所以按照Google黑板报上说的，这个“网站导航”是满足了大量鼠标（搜索）用户需求。
OK.如果这么说,谷歌推出“网站导航”还是符合Google的哲学的。这个服务也算是谷歌团队没有汉化Google的服务而自己率先推出的产品。我希望以后谷歌可以多一点这样的自己的产品 ;-)
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