【漢語】大孩子的使命——寫在Google長大的時候（一篇童話——也許）

有的時候會看到人們抱怨，說曾經那個充滿創新的不斷給人們帶來驚喜的Google一去不復返了。有的時候會看到人們擔憂，說Google創新的基因已經不復存在，他將變成下一個微軟。有的時候會看到人們指責，說Google的不作惡信條作廢了，Google現在和勢利的大公司沒有區別。

Google變了，這不需要否認；但Google真的離開了他曾經的道路嗎？

當我興奮地組裝我的第一台電腦時，我不知道在遙遠的大洋彼岸有兩個年輕人在夢想著將整個互聯網下載下來；當我佔著家裡的電話線，第一次連接上互聯網這塊還一片混沌的土地時，我還不知道Google的名字究竟是什麼意思；當我第一次無法登入Google的時候；當我第一次看到Google的新logo的時候；當我在Google books上讀第一本書的時候；當我第一次下載Gtalk的時候；當我第一次用Chrome打開Google的時候……Google一直在前進，Google已經長大了，他還會繼續成長下去，是否該感到恐懼？

作為一個互聯網的孩子時，Google站在世界的前沿自由地飛奔；在他背後，荒原上的木石因他而構築起來，一座座大廈林立，信息的大道四通八達，科技的車輪也為他轉動；在他面前，是一片險象環生的黑暗。作為一個互聯網的孩子時，Google無所畏懼地在黑暗中飛奔，點燃一個又一個夜晚，太陽在他背後升起，光明下他的同伴們他的對手們盡享溫暖。作為一個互聯網的孩子時，Google看不到前面有什麼，但他看到自己心中的未來那遙遠的閃光，即使跌倒也會獲得鼓勵，因為狹窄的獨木橋上人們正對他緊隨不捨。也許Google之所以前進，並非因為他真的不畏懼黑暗，而是因為他知道黑暗總是會追上來的，火把總有一天會熄滅，只有前進，不斷點燃新的火把，人們才能生活在光明之中。Google就這麼長大了，他的腳步也漸漸沉重。

科技的世界是一個不同的世界，在這個世界裡，你很難判斷自己是否在前進，更無法確定自己今天的決定是否是正確的，你甚至不知道現在就動身究竟會不會自取滅亡。當Google告別了童年的時候，已經不可能依靠獨善其身獨領風騷，因為背後的世界是那麼繁榮，人人安居樂業，他們忘記了即將降臨的夜幕，他們越來越不願意捨棄這舒適再次啟程。當互聯網還是一片荒野時，人們很容易看到地平線上的太陽；但現在它已化作一片高樓林立的都市，太多東西擋住了視線。旅行總是痛苦的，獨木橋下面也總是萬丈深淵——可現在我們的城市裡已經有了公路，為什麼還要摸黑到那麼危險的地方去呢？儘管把廣廈建得更高、把高速公路鋪得更寬吧，科技的世界依然在“發展”不是嗎？Google長大了，他還在前進，但如果腳下略有遲疑，便被質疑停滯不前；而奔跑得太快，人們卻再也提不起精神追上去。對於Google來說，僅僅作為領跑員便可推動社會進步的時代已經過去了。作為一個“大孩子”，人們對他的錯誤不再寬容，世界對他也不再滿面微笑，更多的人離開了他。在一片欣欣向榮的轟鳴聲中，呼籲已經不再容易被聽到；在一片五光十色的燈火中，旗幟也顯得暗淡無光。人們說Google的輝煌要過去了。

但Google並沒有停下腳步；必須有人繼續前進。Google當然認識到，作為大孩子，他已經有了新的使命——那是更複雜、更沉重的責任。因為這一次，要讓大家繼續前進，一個人的力量已經不夠了。Google默默離開他習慣了的位置，站在了在世界的末端；在這裡，重要的不再是他跑得有多麼迅速，而是如何向這個安逸的世界施加壓力，迫使人們從安樂窩中站起來，然後推動他們和他同行。不要再過多地向人們講述未來的光輝——人們不會聽的，他們也不會相信；刺激他們，甚至不惜傷害他們，驅散壟斷的陰影，然後站在前方，讓他們不是在原地互相指摘而是真正地邁開腳步，即使受到指責。Google依然站在黑暗的邊沿，但這一次他所做的不是照亮黑夜——儘管他從未停止試圖這麼做；他熄滅最末端的一座座燈塔，然後指出遠方已經標註出來的漫漫長路。陷入驚慌中的人們說Google是邪惡的。人們說Google在試圖左右他們的生活。但社會必須發展；科技必須進步；不是一家獨大，而是所有人共同抵達新世界。但首先，必須讓人們認識到這一點——如果他們做不到，就至少先強迫他們養成前進的習慣。在Google心中，這才是正義的，任何阻止前進的就是邪惡，會令社會陷入黑暗，必須阻止。這時候他做出的每一個行動並不一定都要成功——自身成功的重要性已經退居二線，賦予他人前進的動力才是第一要務——他們會明白的，總有一天。等到了那個時候，就再回到排頭，舉起你的火把吧。

Google沒有停止在思維的大地上奔跑，儘管人們已經越來越難以跟上他的腳步；能理解他的人越來越少，這是一種遺憾，但理解的人太多也不見得是好事。Google不會永遠領跑下去的，儘管他會永遠奔跑下去；但值得期待的是未來的某一天，人們會自發地鼓起勇氣踏入黑暗之中升起自己的太陽。








The End.



P.S. 童話而已。

【漢語】畫了Google android系統的擬人圖第三彈

這次是法國妹子巧克力泡芙。這張圖拖了很久，因為她頭髮太不好畫了……
不得不承認，eclair的誕生的確把android系統向前帶了一大步，儘管其實有兩個系統都叫eclair……我還是先只畫一個吧= =||||……不過會不會畫2.1……也說不好XD

前些時候密切關注了一下Atrix 4G，對這款設備所展示的前景非常感興趣，以後有空了慢慢貧著。但不管怎樣我想Google對Atrix應該是相當滿意，從他們下一期即將開發的android系統上就能看出來——至少，他們是會試圖向這個方向前進的（我對此信心十足），而且這對於造成手機系統和平板系統的分裂也能起到相當的幫助吧。

【漢語】關於“另一個世界”

我在想，上次我寫吐槽是不是也是因為谷奧上不去了……

沒錯，今天它也上不去了= =，和諧的土地啊……還好Google能上，要是哪天不管在哪裡都上不了Google了，我只好去死了……（不會的，只是說說而已）

總結一下上禮拜做的各種夢。大多數記不得了，不過記得比較清楚的幾個細節可以說說看。

1，夢到和朋友住在旅館裡，但是不知道為什麼不想去大廳，每次在旅館進出都是爬牆從窗戶上下。明明是看起來很破舊的五層紅磚小樓，窗戶也很小，進了房間裡卻發現房間很大，還有落地窗；窗外也不是原本小巷面對的另一棟建築的磚牆而是城市的夜景= =……

我還是想不明白為什麼我不走門，莫非我其實沒登記……不可能吧……不過夢到的這個地方是個新地方，和以前夢裡經常去的地方不太一樣，mark一下，下次有機會再夢到的時候一定要好好研究研究為什麼不想走大門……

2，夢到和很久以前認識的一個妹子被關在一個大宅里，兩個人覺得很壓抑就撬開房頂逃跑了（多好的青年……沒幹些不對的事情……）。一路跑進森林，一直跑到一座山裡，山里有很多各種顏色的鹿和一條瀑布，我們就很不可理喻地跳進那個瀑布底下的水潭，然後逆著瀑布一直走。走著走著山、森林、河岸都不見了，周圍什麼也沒有，只有那條河；我們繼續走，最後整個世界都消失了。天黑了，沒有月亮，周圍閃著各種顏色的星星，我們站在河裡，看著河水在一片混沌之中一直延伸到天上，發著光。

特別後悔當時居然什麼都沒幹就光傻跑了= =……不過後來很想把夢到的東西畫下來——結果力不從心啊……看來有些東西，保存在腦子裡是最好的，一旦帶到現實世界裡就會立刻褪色，就像古墓中光鮮的衣料，一旦見到現在的空氣，立刻氧化變黑，化作碎片。

3，夢見兩個妹子找我出去玩（老婆我錯了= =）。大中午的天氣很好，我們走在我媽家小區外面的小馬路上（穿越了），轉眼就進了隔壁的一個小區——夢裡這個小區戲份很豐富，我經常夢見它。樓底下種了好多植物，當時是夏天，葉子都很繁盛。有一家人種的是好多瓜，瓜秧爬得到處都是，南瓜快開花了，還有好多別的瓜都在開花我不太認識。一個妹子跑過去要摘一片葉子遮陽用，我說你摘瓜葉子不好，應該用芋頭葉子比較萌（我去= =），旁邊在旱地上長了一大片芋頭。結果她還是跑到那一叢很茂盛的像灌木一樣高的瓜秧中央拔下來一片非常巨大梗有一人多高而且很詭異的怎麼看都很像芋頭葉子的葉子來，連上面爬著的好多開黃花的瓜秧都一塊拔下來了。我很囧地說你怎麼把人家那麼大一片葉子拔下來了，你看周圍還有人呢多不好，她也不理我，非要讓我拿著，我說我不要這個，她非給我。沒辦法我只好像個白痴一樣舉著那玩意兒跟著她們——還挺沉的。走了一會發現那個小區的小廣場上有好多人在做廣播體操，我們就這麼旁若無人地從人家正面走過去了，她倆沒事，我覺得簡直太丟人了，就說這葉子我扔了啊，一看沒人理我我就把葉子扔地上了，直到這時候我才正眼看了那葉子：其實挺好看的，上面有好多大黃花和藤蔓，我又覺得後悔了，不過還是沒有撿起來。

夢裡一直覺得上面的藤蔓是黃瓜，剛剛才想起來應該是絲瓜——黃瓜沒那麼大的花。不管怎樣，對於夢裡的那些種了瓜的人家：非常對不起啊雖然不是我幹的，你們種的花很好看，但是被兩個丫頭糟蹋了，對不起！

4，夢見每天夜裡所有人都睡了以後我會溜出家門（從窗戶當然）跑到外面去爬雪山= =……雪山人氣很高有好多人在那裡舉辦比賽，還有人表演，賣東西= =。我每天都去那玩，前幾次都挺好的，最後一次我居然在山上迷路了= =，沒辦法，我在山上看見有一條路連著一座橋，似乎可以回去，就下去到那邊去，結果走著走著發現那座橋其實沒連著我想去的地方，天快亮了，我很擔心，然後就醒了。

我始終想不明白為什麼當時非要繞到山的另一頭去走那座橋……在這邊順著馬路走回去不是很快就到家了嗎= =……

5，夢見小學時候住的宿舍，連衣櫃都是以前那種特別窄的刷著白漆的木頭櫃子，還有紅色的塑料桶和深綠色的地毯。上學時候的哥們都回來了大家像以前一樣擠在宿舍裡。結果我無所事事地滿世界瞎逛，樓上樓下都去，還跑別人屋裡去看看；夢裡宿舍樓的廁所浴室都是以前的樣子，覺得特別的懷念，但是有好多人我都不認識。走著走著我突然忘了我是哪個宿舍的了，就每個房間都開開去看，但是我突然發現連同屋的是哪些人也不記得了，也不記得自己究竟是在哪張床位了，連自己在宿舍裡有些什麼東西都不記得了。我就在樓道裡四處串，特別希望哪個房間裡有我哥們認出我是和他一屋的，但是沒有；我覺得我所有的房間都已經去過了，但是還是找不到，突然就不著急了。反正什麼都沒有了，我就隨便找了一個房間進去了，屋裡沒人，我找了一張下舖直接一頭躺在上面，枕著我不認識的被子盯著上鋪的床板，一直到天黑了也沒有人來。我沒開燈，沒關門，一直聽見外面有人走動和說話的聲音，但我也沒起來，所以不知道究竟有沒有人，就這樣一直躺到我鬧鐘響。

經常夢見和朋友一起到了一個地方，之後他們都不見了，把我自己留在一群陌生人當中，而我滿心注意的卻不是自己只有一個人了，而是怎麼回到我出來的地方。不管怎樣，我沒有一次在醒過來的時候回到我夢裡開始出發的地方過，一次也沒有。

Google vs Bing (just some speculations)

I should have submited this earlier, but my dearest furious mama just threw my lap and I outta our house so...

I've watched Google and bing fight for quite a while for collecting some public opinions. Then, having been analyzed what I've got this time and what I already have in the pass, I tend to believed that bing did something wrong even if it didn't break the law. I noticed that there're some ones who didn't believe so due to they thought bing can give better results, here are my understanding.

Google did imitated some effects of bing's,but they're untechnically and can be explained by trying to provide better expirences for users in some minor ways. After all, users don't judge a search engine by how its interface looks like but focus on the results it sends back. By the way, the page preview function is not bing's innovation, an extension of firefox did so on Google years ago. You can say that Microsoft imitated it while Google just picked up what they used to have.

What bing came up with were simple: it was okay that bing didn't know how did Google do some search works better, just copying whatever it found satisfied the users. It's much more convinient to get a better result than updating its algorithm, not to mention how cheaper it is than hiring more engineers to fight against Google: let Google fight against itself, it'd never win. It is like coping your deskmate's paper during the exams ( darn I've dealed with those guys for years). Never think that those cheaters can not get higher marks than yours, I met someones who were really skillful on this. Now I'd like to give an explaination.

From the pic, bing did not stupidly copying Google every times thanks to the way it spys on Google. It only copy those are better than its own, graduelly. It's hard to distinguish those more adviced answers from the others during a real exam, but it's easier to search engines which usually judge this by statisticing users' click. Bing is not that silly who copies all of Google's better results at once or putting spiders on Google's web, Google would discover that, so do users. And that's why most of the users cannot get the same result as which of Google's trap even if they tried to examine bing. Microsoft is a company which has kicked dozens of companies into hell which once did much better jobs in a field than it did, which make it very experienced and cautious. So no thinking of you can catch it without resources and experiences like Google.

So what will be brought to bing after this clever copying? Higher satisfaction! Of course they did since it's got what Google's been good at to make up itself's own defects and left Google falling down onto what it wasn't. Don't forget, according to the intimation of Microsoft, bing doesn't refuse to artificial search results adjustments as a Chinese  search engine named Baidu ( is this what you've learnt from China, Micro?). Contributing to all above, it seems that bing did better this time anyway.

You may think this is clever or at least does no harms to you, not at all! Every unhealthy trend causes disastrous consequences, it's just the matter of will you be spreaded sooner or latter.  

I don't know when did Google started suspecting bing's "little tricks", it's no doult that Google kept this secret so carefully even Microsoft didn't realize it until Google accused to its face. Pics of Google's trap has been reprinted widely so I'm not going to place them, I'd describe it by pics of my own instead.

After being catched by Google in sting, Microsoft got another way to pick on Google: click fraud. It's true that you cannot attract bing to your honeypot by only 20 clicks, I guess bing must somehow has a standard to help it decide whether it should copy a series of results or not. It's also unrealistic to drag hundreds and thousands engineers to do this simple test, Google doesn't hire them for this kind of "work". It wasn't part of most of them's duty and the more people knows, the more possible the plan may leaked. So Google may use some ways lack of property, but as far as we know, invalid clicks can sometimes get same effect as normal ones(sometimes, but never more), at least in Google's test. Whether Google used improper ways wouldn't influence the result only that Microsoft lost the chances of getting known from some careless employees of Google.

Fact is fact, Microsoft was caught in time before they destroying Google like what they've done to Netscape and numerous small companies. Microsoft has been doing a great job in destroying those who were standing in its way, this time it was even overperforming that there're really bunches of people who consider bing as an independent one--NO, THE POSITION OF BING IS NOT EXIST AND WILL NEVER EXIST BECAUSE BING IS NOTHING BUT A PART OF A GIANT EVIL CORPORATION NAMED MICROSOFT! if there's anything imperfect, it is that Microsoft just lets Google growing so big that not only does it remember how Microsoft killed those standard-bearers but can also trap Microsoft itself. Google also payed, no one can fight Microsoft without self-injured.  

There're also groups of guys believes that Google accused bing because Google is afraid of bing. Sounds as silly as those who stick into a wierd point of view that Baidu is better than Google in China. Stop thinking about bing this or bing that, it's not a fight between Google and bing. What Google is concerning about is the one standing behind bing whom I guess no one would say it's no need to keep an eye on. Don't be fooled by Microsoft. It is not bing who is preventing Google from ruling the world of searching, it is Google who tries to prevent Microsoft from ruling the world of future. The way Microsoft choose to improve their search result is very dangerous that it may push the search "development" into a swirl of obsolate informations and endless duplicating(or will it really be endless?). Microsoft tried to mislead users by spreading a "belief" that search engine without working on its algorithm like a paranoid can also goes further. Only Microsoft can make it the way of which I'll discuss next time.

In this case, a thought keeps haulting me: will bing also copies the results from other search engines? Other less that famous or powerful ones which gathering their handful of users' attention drop by drop and definitely don't have the ability and energy to even find out what they've been done to? If bing can copy from Google, it can copy from others by the same way. It's just like Google said that it will not intervern its search results artificially, after all it has that ability.

It's really depressed to see a cheater stealing your efforts of years' hard working by simply copying the final result especially to Google which treats search as its beating heart. I mean, even Baidu( it also copied Google's search result when Google was still in China) would change it here and there to makes it less like copying. Bing wouldn't kills Google in sudden, it just wounds Google, letting it bleeding to death after a long time which seems to be the users choice eliminates it. Very clever I'd say. But how does it works? I've run out of my pics this time and I'm going to put those contents into my next blog if anyone has that interest to read.

Sorry for my poor English writing.