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I do? And I really do just respond (отвечаю) – you just have to start. You
know, figure out (разобраться) what platform you wannа be on. It doesn’t
mean you have to stick with (должен всё время придерживаться/быть на
этой платформе) that forever, you can always transfer a move down the
road (перевести блог в другое место по ходу дела). I started my blog on
Bloggers which is a free platform through Google. And I was there from 7 and
a half years and I ultimately (в конце концов) switched to (перешла на)
WordPress.
Answer the questions:
1. What is this video about?
2. What is the first piece of the advice the woman gives?
3. Do you agree that after couple of weeks being engaged in any activity
people may lose steam if things do not soar at once?
4. What about you. How long can you keep going even without seeing the
feedback or results just yet?
5. Would you like to start a blog? What would you talk about in it?
Exercise 143. Read the text and discuss.
“Don’t be evil” isn’t a normal company value. But Google isn’t a normal
company. The inside story behind Google’s famous mantra, according to a key
former executive. By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Kantrowitz Feb 16, 2021,
8:01am EST Mayer says the idea of “Don’t be evil” came about when Google
began making deals to monetize its search engine in the late ’90s. An early
business meeting with the Washington Post raised excitement among Google’s
engineers but also some trepidation. In particular, Mayer told us, one engineer
named Amit Patel had serious doubts.
“He was worried that [we] might tell the Washington Post that we’ll put an
article that they think is more important first in the search results or not be as
comprehensive if they didn’t want us to be. Things that he really viewed would
compromise our integrity.” (Remember, at the time, Google’s whole goal for
itself was to “organize the world’s information.”) A representative for Google
could not confirm details of the meeting, but said that the company would never
change search results because of a partner.
And so, says Mayer, Patel went into the conference room where the Google
team was going to meet with the Washington Post and wrote a message to his
co-workers on the whiteboard “in the lower left-hand corner ... in tiny little
letters, ‘don’t be evil.’”
The line clearly resonated, because later, Mayer and some other longtime
employees were tasked with coming up with an official code of conduct for the
company. Mayer recalls that Paul Buchheit (a legendary Google engineer who
would later come up with Gmail) brought back Patel’s note. “[Paul] said, can

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