Section A
A paper, Anatomy(剖析) of a Large ,Scale Social Search
Engine, laying out a strategy for social search has been getting a good deal of
attention in tech circles. It was written by Damon Horowitz and Sepandar Kamvar
of Aardvark, one of several companies (47) on creating
social search engines. Social search (48)
to connect people with questions to people who can answer those questions. By
contrast, regular Web searches take questions, break them into keywords, and
then find Web sites that have the most (49) to these
keywords. The idea has been floating around tech circles for years. Yahoo, among
others, has tried to develop social search as a way to (50)
Google. The idea has gained impulse with the increased use of
Twitter and Facebook, where people (51) on their networks
for information, blasting questions to their social networks and, getting
useful, personalized (52) . Aardvark and its competitors are
trying to create better tools for people with questions to connect to people
with answers. Some people think social search has the potential to go beyond
Google and (53) change the way people use the Internet.
From a technical standpoint, Aardvark’s task is easier than
Google’s. But there are also some (54) short-comings to
Aardvark’s approach. Getting answers through social search requires someone else
to do something, so it cannot produce the (55) satisfaction
that comes from typing something into a Web search box and watching a page of
results appear. For Aardvark to be successful, it needs to enlist the
participation of (56) answerers. A) working
B) researches
C) aims D) responses
E) fundamentally F) specializing
G) constant H) primarily
I) competent J) significant
K) relevance L) instant
M) relation
N) challenge O) rely