Chapter 215 The era of search
The leader's speech ends with the entrepreneur's speech.
The first person to take the stage was Mr. Li from Baidu. He was really personable and high-spirited. Now is the era of search. As the controller of the world's largest Chinese search engine, he is proud of all the others.
He said: "Baidu ignited the search boom in the domestic Internet market. Stimulated by Baidu, Google, which had little success in the domestic market, also made up its mind to redefine the domestic market and even spent a lot of money to poach Li Kaifu from Microsoft.
In addition, Microsoft has also increased its investment in search and established a search technology center in China. In addition, we have also heard rumors in the market that Alibaba is acquiring Yahoo China. The most fundamental reason is search."
He also said that the size of the domestic search engine market will reach 1.94 billion yuan this year, and it is expected that the search engine market size will maintain a high annual growth rate of 70% in the next three years, and the market size will reach 5.6 billion yuan in 2007.
In addition to search, games, e-commerce, online advertising, instant messaging and email are five other mature Internet application models.
The most promising one is undoubtedly e-commerce.
At the beginning of this year, Shanda, driven by President Tang Jun, wanted to engage in e-commerce business. But Shanda was in the game business and did not have a decent website... so it simply launched a hostile takeover of Sina, the largest portal network in China.
Sina immediately launched a poison pill plan to counterattack, and Shanda's capital chain was cut off...
But Tang Jun was already prepared.
At that time, Yahoo lost confidence in Yahoo China's business and prepared US$1 billion, intending to hit the Chinese market. At that time, two choices emerged, one was Shanda and the other was Alibaba.
Shanda is much better than Alibaba.
Tang Jun, who has strong connections in the United States, was also the matchmaker... In March, the collaboration was completed.
Yahoo wanted to inject capital into Shanda to help Shanda acquire Sina.com, and then rely on Sina's portal traffic to launch the Sina Mall and Yipai.com plans. Unfortunately, at the last moment of signing, Shanda's richest man, Chen, went back on his word. He was unwilling to sell out so much money to Yahoo!
Many shares.
Alima didn't care, and quickly struck out to get involved with Yahoo. Now, internal news has come out, and the negotiations have been reached. The reason why it has not been made public is because the two parties are still negotiating on Ali's acquisition of Yahoo China.
Therefore, the second person to take the stage was Mr. Guo from the e-commerce platform Huicong.com.
In this era, Huicong.com was really famous, with the honorific title of "Huicong in the North, Ali in the South". And Mr. Guo's tone was louder than Mr. Ma. He came to power with great arrogance, talking about globalization but keeping silent about the new era. It was a big deal.
Point the world's brilliant style.
However, this guy is just bragging.
Not only do they criticize Alibaba every day, but they also criticize entrepreneurs such as Lenovo CEO Liu and Huawei CEO Ren.
But in fact, in the B2B e-commerce market, Huicong's market share is only one-tenth of Alibaba. However, Huicong is engaged in large-scale building materials, and its profits are about the same.
The domestic Internet market in 2005 was really booming.
However, there is always ease.
The rest period was changed to the auditorium.
Snacks, fruits and red wine were served.
A big boss came up from behind with red wine in his hand and patted Zhou Buqi on the shoulder: "Xiao Zhou? Haha, I heard that we are going to be neighbors?"
Zhou Buqi looked back.
Ho!
Sohu’s Zhang Chaoyang!
"Mr. Zhang, nice to meet you!" Zhou Buqi bowed quickly, showing a young man's respect for the seniors in the industry.
"Hey, don't be polite to me. We don't like this in the Internet circle. You can just call me Charles." Zhang Chaoyang waved his hand and then said with a smile: "The school network is doing well. How much is your monthly salary?"
Zhou Buqi was very honest and said modestly: "Not much, around 30 million."
Zhang Chaoyang held it in for a moment and felt a heavy blow on his chest.
Chinaren, a subsidiary of Sohu, has more than 17 million registered users, but now all of them have become zombie users, with only over 8 million monthly active users.
"Okay, what do you think? Do you want to merge with Chinaren? Come here and become the senior vice president directly."
"Sorry, I have no intention of doing so at the moment."
Zhang Chaoyang smiled nonchalantly, "Well, for young people, it's good to have some pursuits. However, you can't just focus on work and ignore your body. In this way, I will hold a charity event in July and call a few people
A beautiful woman went to climb Qizifeng with an entrepreneur. By the way, there is also an actress, Gao Yuanyuan, do you know?"
"Mountain climbing?"
"Well, I named this event the '2005 Sogou Beauty Beast' Mountaineering Team, and we will hold one every year from now on."
All right.
After Mr. Zhang became successful in his career, he stopped doing his job. He traveled around the mountains and rivers and played in the flowers every day. How could Sohu avoid being degenerate? Chinaren did not update for half a year, and the user experience was extremely poor. How could it not be overtaken by Xiaonei.com?
Zhou Buqi quickly shook his head and politely declined: "Running is fine, but climbing is fine. You must be professionally trained."
Zhang Chaoyang said disapprovingly: "It's okay, the mountain is not high, only about 6,000 meters. Many film and television stars are going together, including Wang Shi from Vanke."
Zhou Buqi said seriously: "Charles, I don't want to have too many interactions with people in the film and television industry."
Zhang Chaoyang was slightly startled.
Once a man becomes famous, don’t they all like to hook up with female celebrities?
He looked suspicious and didn't believe it at all.
Zhou Buqi blinked, lowered his voice, and said with a smile: "Charles, you have also seen that I am so handsome and young... If I go, won't I steal the limelight from you and Mr. Wang?"
Zhang Chaoyang laughed loudly.
He is quite a temperamental person.
However, you really can't make any progress with such idle people.
Fortunately, the busy man arrived soon.
Surprisingly, it was Chen Yongzheng, the president of Microsoft China. He raised his glass and said, "Let's talk?"
"OK."
Zhou Buqi smiled.
After sitting down, Chen Yongzheng said bluntly: "To be honest, MSN has never given up the competition with QQ. We are conducting a... it can be said to be a revolution. We will join forces with nine major websites such as Taobao, Maopu, Saidi, and Lianzhong World.
Using the advertising sharing model, we can use their traffic import to attract more users to MSN."
Zhou Buqi suddenly remembered the news he had read on the Internet a while ago, and said in a voiceless voice: "Anti-QQ Alliance?"
Chen Yongzheng waved his hand, but he was full of arrogance, "The anti-QQ alliance is just an argument put forward by QQ people to put money on their faces."
Zhou Buqi was speechless.
Dude, where did you get the courage?
Do you really think you are invincible if you rely on Microsoft?
Chen Yongzheng was confident and said calmly: "In the current market, there are indeed more QQ users, but this is determined by the age and structure of the user group. People with low age, low education, and low income all like to use QQ.
It’s just that the Internet users in China are very young. When they grow up, they will gradually move to MSN.”
Zhou Buqi suppressed his laughter and pretended to be serious: "I'm afraid that users' habits have been formed and it will be difficult to change."
Chen Yongzheng nodded in agreement, "You are right, so next, MSN will launch a series of decisions to attract users. To be honest, MSN is negotiating with Yahoo Messenger, and the goal is for both parties to be interconnected. If
This cooperation has been completed, and we will promote more instant messaging software so that all instant messaging users around the world can connect."
Zhou Buqi stood in awe.
Sure enough, it is a big company. It is so bright as soon as it makes a move. It is really a big deal!
It connects instant messaging software all over the world. Whether you are using MSN, Gtalk, or Yahoo Messenger, different platforms can send messages to each other... This definitely brings great convenience to users.
Probably this is the kind of thinking that a large company like Microsoft, an IT giant with global influence but not a thorough understanding of emerging Internet markets, would have.
"Forgive me, even if MSN and Yahoo Messenger are connected, it will be difficult to compete with QQ in China."
"You can rest assured that Microsoft will mobilize all resources as much as possible."
Chen Yongzheng said seriously.
The meaning is very clear, it is to invite the school network to join this so-called "Anti-QQ Alliance".
Zhou Buqi remained calm and asked, "What benefits can I get from this?"
Chen Yongzheng said: "I can make the decision. Domestic MSN users can connect with your friends network, just like you said."
"Not enough." Zhou Buqi shook his head and sighed, "That's QQ! You have also seen the current momentum of QQ. I will imitate whoever I see is good. If I piss them off, I will also imitate someone similar to
website. What should I do if I take advantage of QQ’s super traffic-draining ability to compete with my friend network? You have also seen that as soon as QQ Space came out, Blog China immediately lost its momentum.”
Chen Yongzheng smiled and said: "I told you, there is also advertising revenue. MSN's domestic advertising revenue is 70 million yuan, and the revenue will be distributed according to the traffic drainage ratio of these cooperative websites."
Zhou Buqi was helpless, "President Chen, are you looking down on me too much? Even if I can get 10%, it's only 7 million. To be honest, Xiaonei.com's advertising revenue this year... will not be higher than MSN's
How much lower."
Chen Yongzheng looked calm, suppressed his smile, and said calmly: "Then what do you want? You have to understand that if the cooperation between MSN and Yahoo Messenger is reached, the nearly 100 instant messaging tools in the country will definitely seek cooperation and interconnection.
.This is a must-win situation! The cooperation between Microsoft and Xiaonei.com is not about instant messaging, but about search."
Obviously, after receiving strong support from the headquarters, he was full of confidence in defeating QQ.
Zhou Buqi smiled, not in a hurry: "I'll think about it."
Whether it is the Friends Network or the Xiaonei Network, there is no urgent need for a search module. It only requires some simple on-site searches. There is not much technical difficulty. The codes are all borrowed from Douban's on-site search.
On the contrary, Microsoft is in a hurry.
From the United States to China, Microsoft and Google are at loggerheads.
The more urgent the better.
Chapter completed!