1028.经济学人-The battle for internet search-7（完结）

Googling the future

Yet the fact that today’s upstarts, such as Anthropic and Openai, are attracting so much attention (and investment) from Google and Microsoft suggests that smaller firms have a shot at competing in this new field.

They will come under great pressure to sell. But what if an upstart chatbot firm develops superior technology and a new business model, and emerges as a new giant? That, after all, is what Google once did.

Chatbots raise hard questions, but they also offer an opportunity to make online information more useful and easier to access.

As in the 1990s, when search engines first appeared, a hugely valuable prize—to become the front door to the internet—may once again be up for grabs.

这是《经济学人》2023年2月刊的一篇文章“The battle for internet search”第11段。

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‘Googling the future’是文章的副标题，译作：搜索未来

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have a shot：有机会

然而，如今类似Anthropic与OpenAi这样的初创企业事实上正在从谷歌和微软吸引着更多的关注（还有投资），这表明在这个新的领域，小企业有机会在当中竞争。

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他们将迎接巨大的销售压力。但是如果这个突然出现的聊天机器人公司发展出了更高级别的技术以及新的商业模型，从未作为一个新的巨头出现呢？毕竟，这种事儿谷歌曾经干过。

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聊天机器人提出了难题，但是他们同样提供了让线上信息更加有用、更加容易获取的机会。

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与20世纪90年代当时搜索引擎首次亮相一样，一个极具价值的事物-成为进入互联网的大门-或许再一次被人们竞相争夺。

词汇

have a shot：有机会