题目内容
（请给出正确答案）
Google defends its scanning in-copyright books by saying that______.
A．making electronic copies of books is not a violation of copyright
B．it displays only a small part of their content
C．it is willing to compensate the copyright holders
D．the online display of in-copyright books is not for commercial use
如果结果不匹配，请 联系老师 获取答案
更多“Google defends its scanning in…”相关的问题
Google's assertion of its own holiness ______.
A．brings about sourgrapes rivals' scorn
B．is able to receive unquestioning trust
C．makes many firms disgusted
D．attracts the support of many firms except sourgrapes rivals
Google claims its plan for the world's biggest online library is______.
A．to save out-of-print books in libraries
B．to encourage reading around the world
C．to promote its core business of searching
D．to serve the interest of the general public
What is the potential crisis for Google according to Jim Lanzone？
A．Google overestimates its technique.
B．Google's new on-line program attracts more users.
C．Its rivals are trying to form. alliance.
D．Google extends into various fields.
According to Santiago de la Mora, Google's book-scanning project will______.
A．make full use of the power of its search engine
B．help the broad masses of readers
C．revolutionise the entire book industry
D．broaden humanity's intellectual horizons
Social Networking
A large but long-in-the-tooth technology company hoping to become a bigger force in online advertising buys a small start-up in a sector that everybody agrees is the next big thing. A decade ago, this was Microsoft buying Hotmail--the firm that established web-based e-mail as a must-have service for internet users, and promised to drive up page views, and thus advertising inventory, on the software giant's websites. This month it was AOL, a struggling web portal (入口网站) that is part of Time Warner, an old-media giant, buying Bebo, a small but up-and-coming online social network, for $ 850m.
Both deals, in their respective decades, illustrate a great paradox of the internet in that the premise underlying them is precisely half right and half wrong. The correct half is that a next big thing--web-mall then, social networking now--can indeed quickly become something that consumers expect from their favorite web portal. The non sequitur(推论，结论) is to assume that the new service will be a revenue-generating business in its own right.
Web-mall has certainly not become a business. Admittedly, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and other providers of web-mall accounts do place advertisements on their web-mail offerings, but this is small beer. They offer e-mail--and volumes of free archival (档案的) storage unimaginable a decade ago--because the service, including its associated address book, calendar, and other features, is cheap to deliver and keeps consumers engaged with their brands and websites, making users more likely to visit affiliated pages where advertising is more effective.
Social networking appears to be similar in this regard. The big internet and media companies have bid up the implicit valuations of MySpace, Facebook and others. But that does not mean there is a working revenue model. Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, recently admitted that Google's "social networking inventory as a whole" was proving problematic and that the "monetization work we were doing there didn't pan out as well as we had hoped". Google has a contractual agreement with News Corp to place advertisements on its network, MySpace, and also owns its own network, Orkut. Clearly, Google is not making money from either.
Facebook, now allied to Microsoft, has fared worse. Its grand attempt to redefine the advertising industry by pioneering a new approach to social marketing, called Beacon, failed completely. Facebook's idea was to inform. a user's friends whenever he bought something at certain online retailers, by running a small announcement inside the friends' "news feeds". In theory, this was to become a new recommendation economy, an algorithmic (算术的) form. of word of mouth. In practice, users rebelled and privacy watchdogs cried foul. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, admitted in December that "we simply did a bad job with this release" and apologized.
So it is entirely conceivable that social networking, like web-mail, will never make oodles of money. That, however, in no way detracts from its enormous utility. Social networking has made explicit the connections between people, so that a thriving ecosystem of small programs can exploit this "social graph" to enable friends to interact via games, greetings, video clips and so on.
But should users really have to visit a specific website to do this sort of thing？ "We will look back to 2008 and think that we had to go to a destination like Facebook or LinkedIn to be social," says Charlene IA at Forrester Research, a consultancy. Future social networks, she thinks, "will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them to be". No more logging on to Facebook just to see the "news feed" of updates from your friends; instead it will come straight to your e-mail inbox, RSS reader or instant messenger. No need to upload photos to Facebook to show them to friends, since those with priv
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true？
A．The CASA volunteers are much more loving than the children's parents.
B．The one with willingness to help and common sense can become a CASA advocate.
C．A CASA volunteer defends for a child's court needs and educational and health care needs.
D．A CASA volunteer plays an important role in a court's intelligent decision making.
Consumer activists are pressing Congress for better privacy laws without much result so far. The legislators lean toward letting business people track our financial habits virtually at will.
As an example of what's going on, consider U.S. Bancorp, which was recently sued for deceptive practices by the state of Minnesota. According to the lawsuit, the bank supplied a telemarketer called Member Works with sensitive customer data such as names, phone numbers, bank-account and credit-card numbers, Social Security numbers, account balances and credit limits.
With these customer lists in hand, Member Works started dialing for dollars-selling dental plans, videogames, computer. software and other products and services. Customers who accepted a "free trial offer" had 30 days to cancel. If the deadline passed, they were charged automatically through their bank or credit-card accounts. U.S. Bancorp collected a share of the revenues. Customers were doubly deceived, the lawsuit claims. They didn't know that the bank was giving account numbers to Member Works. And if customers asked, they were led to think the answer was no.
The state sued Member Works separately for deceptive selling. The company defends that it did anything wrong. For its part, U.S. Bancorp settled without admitting any mistakes. But it agreed to stop exposing its customers to non-financial products sold by outside firms. A few top banks decided to do the same. Many other banks will still do business with Member Works and similar firms.
And banks will still be mining data from your account in order to sell you financial products, including things of little value, such as credit insurance and credit-card protection plans. You have almost no protection from businesses that use your personal accounts for profit. For example, no federal law shields "transaction and experience" information--mainly the details of your bank and credit-card accounts. Social Security numbers are for sale by private firms. They've generally agreed not to sell to the public. But to businesses, the numbers are an open book. Self-regulation doesn't work. A firm might publish a privacy-protection policy, but who enforces it？
Take U.S. Bancorp again. Customers were told, in writing, that "all personal information you supply to us will be considered confidential". Then it sold your data to Member Works. The bank even claims that it doesn't "sell" your data at all. It merely "shares" it and reaps a profit.
Contrary to popular belief, the author finds that spying on people's privacy______.
A．is mainly carried out by means of secret taping
B．has been intensified with the help of the IRS
C．is practiced exclusively by the FBI
D．is more prevalent in business circles
A.narrow the IPO price range
B.cooperate with Google
C.keep enormously profitable
D.invest additional $ 2.6 billion
