While much smaller in scale than today's global collapse, the dot-com bust of 2000-2002 pushed Google and others in the industry to take some tough decisions - and we all emerged stronger as a result.

尽快没有今天的全球衰退范围这么广，但是在2000年至2002年网络泡沫破灭的那个时期，置身其中的Google和其他公司同样面临艰难的抉择——而结果是我们都变得更加坚强。

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Californians, who in recent years have endured an energy crisis, the collapse of the dot-com economy and budget deficits.

加州现在情况不佳，近来曾经受了能源危机、网络经济崩溃和财政赤字。

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It's also like the dot-com collapse, in fact, probably in longer term more like that situation.

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That company, an umbrella for holdings in the Internet sector, had just gone through the wrenching dot-com collapse.

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Even after the dot-com collapse, there is still cash being thrown at young techies with a genius for a hot thing--like Gnutella.

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