We need to figure out some way to transfer resources, mostly in the form of technology, north to south, so that countries like India or China or continents like Africa have some decent shot at development without having to go through the fossil fuel era."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Then I found that I couldn't find anyone in China because nobody at that time really focused on technology.

结果在中国没有人符合要求,因为那是没人致力于技术研究。

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We didn't have a feasible business model, let's put it this way, because when we started, the business model is to provide the backend search technology to the portal companies in China.

或者说没有一个，可行的商业模式，因为公司成立初期的商业模式，是给门户网站公司,提供后台搜索技术。

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