It's driven by something called similarity search.

这是由一种名为“相似性搜索”的技术所推动的。

So Navlakha and his colleagues tweaked computer similarity search functions to do it fly style.

所以，纳卡拉和同事们调整了电脑的相似性搜索功能，使其类似于果蝇的做法。

If you go to Amazon and look for similar products to the one you're going to buy, that's similarity search.

如果你在亚马逊网上查看了与你要买的物品相似的产品，那就是相似性搜索。”

He says we do similarity searches, too, for example, when we scan faces in a crowd for the one we know.

他表示，我们也会做相似性搜索，比如，我们会在人群中寻找我们认识的人。

Rather than the way a computer similarity search does it, taking something with many dimensions, and simplifying it down to a few.

与计算机从多方面操作的相似性搜索不同，果蝇将检索简化。

If you go to YouTube and you watch a video they're going to suggest similar videos to the one you're watching. That's similarity search.

“如果你在YouTube上看了一个视频，他们会推荐你看类似的视频。这就是相似性搜索。