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Finding important technological areas where progress is currently slow, but could be
made fast, is what Google is all about.
I’m excited about our opportunities to make a big difference in people’s lives through
technology. We can build these great new products into great new businesses too.
Google Translate is a recent example. You can now translate pretty well and instantly
between any of 54 languages—that is about 2550 language pairs—and search the web
and read results in languages you don’t speak! We even have Google Translate for your
Android phone—so you speak in English and it translates into German out loud! This
is all using software for speech recognition and translation that we have developed at
Google. Users around the world have noticed the speed and quality of our translations,
which is why Google Translate is growing like wildfire. We’re putting this technology
into YouTube too, so you can watch videos even if you don’t speak the same language,
or have difficulty hearing—automatically. Imagine anyone in the world being able to
watch and understand any video no matter the language. YouTube is an extraordinary
platform, and for me is like another kind of tube that I use every day, toothpaste.
Apparently I am not alone: we have over 1,000,000,000 daily views on YouTube.
YouTube has new features like full high-definition content at 1080p and tools to help
you share videos with your friends. Over the last year, YouTube has also been making
a lot more money for us and our partners, with content partner ad revenue more than
tripling in 2009.
Recently we announced a new project to build 1 gigabit per second fiber-to-the-home
broadband networks for one or more U.S. cities and towns between 50,000 and