Today Google released a product, called Google Me, that aims to change all of that.

就在今天，Google推出了一个新产品Google Me，旨在改变这样的状况。

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We first heard rumors of this effort early last summer, when the project was supposedly called "Google Me" and was surely the next "Facebook Killer."

在去年夏天我们第一次听到这个传闻，那时这个项目名还被猜测为“Google Me”,而且被肯定是下一个“Facebook 杀手.”

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He quotes Google co-founder Larry Page to the effect that the "perfect search engine" will ''understand exactly what I mean and give me back exactly what I want."

他引用了谷歌的联合创始人拉里·佩奇的话，大意是说这个“完美的搜索引擎”将“准确地理解我的意思，并准确地反馈回我想要的东西”。

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Then you might--well let me ask you this, what would happen if Google decided to buy up all of its shares?

你也可能,我来问问你,如果谷歌决定购回它所有的股票会怎么样呢

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Since this has been the status quo for two years now, I suspect Google is paving the way for its Google Me social network, expected to launch later this year.

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When news breaks on Quora, as it did with the rumored Google Me product, traditional and online-only publications like Fortune and Gizmodo are almost compelled to jump on it, lest their readers go elsewhere to read the news.

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The Web was seemingly growing volumes of quality content, and Google helped me find it fast.

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