My dad got state representatives to send letters of recommendation on my on my behalf, and I went through a battery of interviews for the program. My friends made it.

在塞伦高中一共有三人获得这项奖学金，分别是我和另外两个要好的朋友—乔治里安和迈克迪南，我爸让州议员为我写了推荐信，我也接受了一系列的面试。

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Friends are a good proxy for one’s tastes, he says, and social recommendation is far more efficient than maintaining lists of keywords relating to topics of interest.

朋友很能代表一个人的品味，而社交型推荐远比靠自己列出感兴趣题目的关键字更有效。

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When they hit that button, they're recommending that result, and that recommendation will show up in their friends' search results. Here's how Google explains the social mechanics.

当他们点击那个按钮，他们就会推荐那个结果，然后这个推荐就会在他们朋友的搜索结果中出现。

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People are more likely to purchase things that come from the recommendation of their friends and family.

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This outreach was one woman making a recommendation to her close friends magnified to the highest levels allowed through the global reach of the web.

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And since one of the primary ways that social services grow is through the recommendation of a content shared from friends, colleagues and acquaintances, a paywall can be a serious inhibitor to growth.

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