An application is a software program that lets users do a task -- like listen to music or find directions.

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Once that's clear, we will send it to the necessary application, be it a search engine or anti-virus software, or a stock search, or shopping, or FriendFinder - anything that can be plugged into this kind of platform.

结果一出,页面将会转到相应的应用，像，搜索引擎，或者，杀毒软件，或是，股票搜索，购物，交友网站,任何能够接入平台的东西。

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