On October 11, Google released the blockbuster news that it had acquired the video platform YouTube for a whopping US$1.65 billion, shocking the world.

The popularity of video platforms has detonated the global Internet market.

After the news came out, Google's stock price rose by 2%, and its market value increased by US$4 billion.

Sure enough, capital games are the biggest killer of making money.

Currently, the number one video platform in the United States is Myspace, followed by Yahoo. Google's original video business ranks eighth. After merging with YouTube, its market share will become the third in the industry.

However, other analysts believe that if Google wins YouTube, it will be more concerned about the video advertising market. After all, Google is already the world's number one in the field of text advertising. If it wants to expand its business, video will be the next important area.

There are also rumors.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt joined Apple's board of directors and has repeatedly stated that Google will cooperate closely with Apple. The media began to look forward to it eagerly.

One owns the world's most popular search engine and video website, and the other owns the world's best-selling MP3 players. What kind of sparks will be created when the two join forces?

Maybe there will be a revised iPod!

For example, the iPod can use WiFi to access the Internet wirelessly, and Google has stated many times that it is indeed interested in exploring the WiFi market. With WiFi and Google Maps, the iPod will not only be as simple as an MP3 player, it will become

GPS sightseeing guide with audio playback function!

Simply wonderful!

Zhou Buqi saw these American newspapers on the plane. They were all good, and I felt that the media elites had done a good job in analyzing them. YouTube’s profit model must be video advertising.

But later on, the cooperation between Google and Apple is so funny.

Remodeled iPod?

These media and analysts, even if they have broad imaginations and fantasize about not having to take responsibility while drinking coffee and smoking cigars, they can only imagine a hardware device that can play music and be equipped with Google Maps.

As everyone knows, Steve Jobs has already been constructing a greater dream.

"The bomb YouTube has ignited the American Internet market!" On the other side, Zhang Chaoyang put down the newspaper in his hand and sighed repeatedly.

Zhou Buqi looked at him with a smile, "When we land, let's put a bomb too!"

Zhang Chaoyang frowned, "So urgent?"

"What's going on?"

"The information is kept confidential and there is less pressure. You have created such a big momentum, are you not worried about your competitors?"

"Don't be afraid!"

Zhou Buqi is confident.

You don’t have to think about it on Baidu’s side. It’s originally focused on recommending its own content and blocking competitors. Weizhi has been restricted. There’s no need to think about it on Google’s side. They don’t have their own content, so they have to use their competitors’ content. It’s easy to do it on Google.

When searching, the top rankings are content from Baidu Zhizhi and Baidu Encyclopedia.

More importantly, Ziweixing now needs a big news to detonate the domestic Internet!

In the past two years, Ziweixing has developed very well.

But it's too low-key.

Even neighbors like Zhang Chaoyang did not believe that Ziweixing could spend so much money at once, and they underestimated Boss Zhou's strength.

There are disadvantages to being low-key.

It's especially troublesome when doing business.

For example, if you advertise on Friends.com and say that we are the marketing department of Ziweixing, people will ignore you at all. If you say that we are the marketing department of Friends.com, the reaction will be different.

Friends.com, a big website, a big company!

At present, Ziweixing wants to develop its search business and has a navigation website, but it has not yet found a complete promotion website.

The salesperson ran over and said excitedly: "Brother, we are going to build a navigation website. If you pay 36,000 per month, you can hyperlink your website to our navigation website. When users visit our navigation website,

At that time, it can bring traffic to your website and help you surpass your competitors!"

People would only reply: "Go away!"

With the great success of a website as simple as hao123, hundreds of navigation websites have appeared in China, and even unhealthy free software such as PP Diandian and Vagaa have started their own navigation websites.

To put it simply, there are a lot of scammers and the promotion costs are extremely low.

Many websites can be launched for hundreds or thousands of yuan a month. Only large websites like hao123 can spend more than 100,000 yuan on monthly promotion.

For emerging navigation websites like Hellogo, the usual practice is to try it for free for three months or half a year. If the effect is good, you will pay to continue using it. If the effect is not good, just stay there for a while.

In the final analysis, it is because he has no reputation and no family background, and people simply don’t believe him.

But if Ziweixing invested US$80 million to acquire the Sogou business from the Internet giant Sohu, it would be enough to become famous!

It is equivalent to telling peers across the country that Ziweixing is going to do a search!

Once you have a reputation, it will be easier to start your business.

Just like many big scammers, they haven’t accomplished anything. They hold press conferences every day, put on PPT dramas, steal the limelight, and then money pours into their pockets.

Unexpectedly, after the plane landed and the mobile phone signal was connected, I was disturbed by another incident.

The shocking case of Google’s acquisition of YouTube shocked the domestic Internet.

Then, video websites such as Youku, Tudou, and Ku6 also became popular overnight, as if they were elated. Ziweixing invested in Youku in the early days and held 25% of the shares. Taking advantage of this spring breeze from the United States, Youku also became high-profile.

stood up and expressed that they would start a new round of financing!

The tone is particularly loud, the amount of financing is no less than 30 million US dollars!

Such a huge appetite made Zhou Buqi very embarrassed.

Ziweixing is short of money now.

With such a large-scale financing project, I was powerless and had no money to follow up, so I could only sit back and watch as my shares were diluted.

Youku's founder Gu Yongqiang came from Sohu. After Zhang Chaoyang heard about it, he couldn't help but be speechless: "Everyone is crazy about this!"

Zhou Buqi looked at him funny, "Shouldn't Sohu also make efforts to make videos and follow up?"

Zhang Chaoyang said angrily: "How to follow up?"

Zhou Buqi said kindly: "Internet video production is an extremely money-consuming industry, and it is also a new market that is competing for market share. If you don't spend a lot of money to get in first, it will be too late to react later."

Currently, when making videos, you don’t need to pay for intellectual property rights. Everyone piracy.

But even so, the consumption is staggering.

Videos are not as good as text, they will have a huge broadband load, and the daily download bandwidth is an astonishing number. In addition, storing massive videos requires massive server space...

The infrastructure consumption alone is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Anyway, Zhou Buqi doesn’t plan to enter the game in the short term.

Websites like YouTube were able to develop only because Google spent tens of billions of dollars to achieve its subsequent market share and industry status.

Zhang Chaoyang said easily: "At present, it is still unclear. The domestic Internet speed has not improved, which is different from that in the United States. When the time comes, Sohu will definitely invest heavily. Youku raised US$30 million? Do you know Sohu's

How big is the cash reserve? It’s not of the same magnitude at all.”

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "You are so calm."

"Determined by strength."

"My heart is so big."

"Brother, you have the confidence!"

Zhang Chaoyang snorted, walked out of the airport, found the driver, got in the car with Xiaomi and left.

Zhou Buqi looked at his back and sighed helplessly, "Who can save you, my old Zhang!"

Ning Yaxian said softly: "You don't like him?"

"It's not that I'm not optimistic about him, it's just that I'm envious of him. He lives so easily, and he's free and free and goes his own way."

"You can do it too, you are better than him in everything."

"Me?" Zhou Buqi shook his head, "I can't."

Ning Yaxian looked at him strangely, "What? In order to shoulder social responsibilities and promote the country's scientific and technological development?"

Zhou Buqi shook his head, "I am much richer than him."

Ning Yaxian was a little confused.

"Small money belongs to you, big money belongs to the country. We are not evil capitalism. If you want to have big money, you must continue to use it to create value, otherwise the country will take the money back."

"You mean...Zhang always deliberately doesn't want to have too much wealth?"

"I don't know, maybe."

"No way?"

"Anyway, he always climbs mountains with Wang Shi, and they have a good relationship. We can't guess what he is thinking unless he says it."

"oh……"

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To be continued...