Google on 23 Dec, 2008, began handing out mobile smart phones rather than cash as a year-end present to its staff, in a move that reflects an effort by the company to pare the cost of its famously lavish employee perks.
2008年12月23日，作为年终礼物，谷歌开始向员工派送智能手机， 刚随1金。这反映出该公司正努力削减其出名的慷慨的员工福利成本。
The internet search group is to give most of its 20,100 employees around the world the Gl, the first handset to be powered by Google’s new mobile operating system, known as “Android”.
这家互联网搜索公司将向全球2.01万名员工中的多数人发放 G1手机,这是第一款采用该公司最新移动操作系统Android的手机。
News of the handout came in an internal memo that first appeared on Valleywag, a blog, and was later confirmed by the company.
上述消息来自于一份公司内部备忘录，它最先出现在博客 Valleywag上,随后得到谷歌的证实。
In past years Google has given all of its employees a year-end cash present, which one person close to the company put at about $ 1,000. The company also hands out performance-related bonuses in the form of restricted stock and cash and these would be paid as normal early next year, the person close to Google said.
一位熟悉该公司的人士称，过去几年，谷歌一直以现金作为所有 员工的年终礼物,礼金数额在1000美元左右。他表示，谷歌还以限制 性股票和现金的方式,发放绩效奖金,按照惯例将在明年年初发放。
Trimming back perks when times get tough can have a disproportionately big impact on morale, as other wealthy technology companies have found in the past and Google’s founders have themselves warned.
在困难时期削减福利可能会对员工士气产生较大的影响，其他有 钱的科技公司曾发现这个问题，而谷歌创始人自己也曾就此发出警告。
When Microsoft embarked on its first company-wide-cost-cutting plan earlier this decade, a decision to remove towels from corporate shower rooms became a focal point of employee dissatisfaction. The company later reinstated the towel service.
2000年年初，微软首次实行全公司范围内的成本削减计划，当 时取消公司淋浴室毛巾服务的决定曾成为令员工不满的焦点问 题。该公司随后恢复了该项服务。
Google has trod carefully since starting several months ago to put a tighter lid on its fast-growing costs. For instance, some of the restaurants at its headquarters in Silicon Valley now close earlier in the evening, though employees working late can still find somewhere on site to get a free meal, the company says.
自几个月前开始加大力度控制快速上升的成本以来,谷歌一直 谨慎行事。例如，该公司表示，位于硅谷公司总部的一些餐馆现在晚上关门时间提前,不过工作到很晚的员工仍可以就近找到其他餐馆享受免费就餐待遇。
Cutting back perks can be “penny wise and pound foolish” when they “save employees considerable time and improve their health and productivity，” Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google’s founders, wrote at the time of the company’s initial public offering in 2004.
谷歌创始人谢尔盖布林和拉里佩奇曾在2004年公司上市时写道，如果员工福利能够“节省 员工大量时间并改善他们的健康状况和提髙生产率”，那么削减福利就可能“因小失大”。
Google listed 17 countries where the handset cannot be used-including China and India—and said workers in these countries will receive about $400 instead. About 85 per cent of employees will be given the Gl.
谷歌列出了 17个不能使用这款手机的国家——包括中国和印度——并表示，这些国家的员工 将获得约400美元现金。该公司约85%的员工将得到G1手机。
Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google has also developed an open source web browser and a mobile operating system. The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. Google conducts hundreds of millions of search requests every day.
谷歌公司是美国一家上市公司,通过互联网搜索、电子邮件、网上地图和公司产品、社会网络、 视频共享上的相关广告赢利，同时也出售同一技术的无广告版本。谷歌也开发了一种开放源代码 的网络浏览器和移动操作系统。谷歌总部设在加州山景城的Googleplex。每天谷歌都要执行上亿 个搜索命令。
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4，1998.
谷歌由拉里佩奇和谢尔盖_布林创立，当时他们还是斯坦福大学的在读学生。1998年9月4 日，谷歌公司作为一个私人公司成立了。
Google’s mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and usefUl”. The unofficial company slogan, coined by former employee and Gmail’s first engineer Paul Buchheit, is “Don’t be evil”.
谷歌的目标是“将全世界的信息组织起来，实现全球共享”。公司的非官方标语为“不作恶”,是 由前雇员、Gmail的第一位工程师提出的。
The name “Google” originated from a common misspelling of the word “googol”，which refers to 10100，the number represented by a 1 followed by one hundred zeros. Having found its way in-creasingly into everyday language, the verb “google”，was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning “to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.”
“Google”这个名字来源于一个经常被拼错的单词“googol”，意思是数字10的100平方(也即数 字1后面跟100个0) /Google”现在正在融入人们的日常用语当中，于是《韦伯斯特大词典》和《牛津 英语词典》在2006年将该动词收录进来，意为“使用谷歌搜索引擎在互联网上获取信息”。