Bill Gates comes to China.

Zhou Buqi and Zhang Chaoyang, as the leaders of this matter, naturally received a grand reception from the officials. This is not something that just CNNIC can control. The Chinese Academy of Sciences can't do it, and the Ministry of Information Industry is not enough. There are higher-level leaders.

Come to receive foreign friends.

A friendly and harmonious meeting took place for 50 minutes.

Zhou Buqi declined the invitation and did not attend the meeting, saying that he did not want to appear on TV and could not cope with such an occasion. So he drank tea, chatted and waited in the small room next door with Zhang Chaoyang and CNNIC leaders.

CNNIC is the National Internet Network Information Center. Many authoritative data reports on the domestic Internet are compiled and published by this organization.

While chatting, the topic came up about the major Internet case of Ziweixing spending US$80 million to acquire Sogou.

Director Liu couldn't help but be curious and asked: "Really spent 80 million US dollars?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Originally, he asked for 100 million U.S. dollars. I talked the price down and reduced it to 20 million U.S. dollars."

Director Liu was shocked and said: "Do you really want so many?"

He once thought that this was just hype from both parties, and they offered a sky-high price to help the two companies increase their brand awareness.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be true!

Zhang Chaoyang sighed and said bitterly: "80 million is 80 million, but it has been three months and I haven't even seen a penny!"

"Ah? What's going on?"

"He won't give you money!"

Zhang Chaoyang looked very aggrieved.

Zhou Buqi felt that Lao Zhang was indeed a loyal person and was willing to cooperate with him, so he smiled and said: "Our company has only been established for a few years, how can we have so much money? We can only pay the debt first. When will we have money in the future?"

, and then make up for it.”

Director Liu burst out laughing, "It turned out to be a white wolf with nothing! Mr. Zhou's level is really high!"

Zhang Chaoyang knew that this guy didn't like to show off his wealth, so he gritted his teeth and said: "Director Liu, how can you comment on this kind of business? After Sogou was bought by him, it was changed to micro-click search, and now it is doing so well.

, how much is it worth? If I had known this, I wouldn’t have sold it for even 100 million U.S. dollars, let alone 80 million U.S. dollars!”

Director Liu was the peacemaker and said with a smile: "You can't say that. It's Mr. Zhou's ability to be able to do micro-search. Besides, you can also pay interest on debts."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "That's right, it's not like I won't give you interest. Why are you anxious?"

Zhang Chaoyang glared at him and snorted.

I cursed in my heart.

Depend on!

I was deceived by this guy again!

Interest?

Interest rate is shit!

The acquisition of Sogou was completed in October. Even if he can repay the debt by cashing out his Google shares at the end of this month, he will still owe a total of US$80 million in principal for three months. Even if calculated at an annual interest rate of 8% on debt, by then

Also have to give 81.6 million US dollars!

This guy talks better than he sings. He never mentioned interest, but he got an advantage in front of the boss and behaved well.

CNNIC is a company in name, but in fact there is no distinction between government and enterprise. Director Liu worked hard and was very good at chatting. Seeing that Mr. Zhou seemed a little embarrassed when he owed debts and refused to repay the money, he quickly lifted him up and said with a smile: "Little Mr. Zhou

, your micro-dot is so powerful. My granddaughter is only 8 years old, so she told me to install micro-dot anti-virus. The advertising is really amazing."

Zhou Buqi said with a headache: "I have been reported by my colleagues, saying that the advertisement is too brainwashing and has a bad influence. It is estimated that it will have to be withdrawn after the year."

"Haha, it's quite brainwashing."

"I think it's because the advertising planning is good, and the colleagues are enemies."

"In a market economy, as long as it's legal and compliant and in line with the values ​​of a harmonious society, that's fine. By the way, your micro-click search is pretty good!"

Zhou Buqi was very modest, "It should be okay."

Director Liu said: "How many searches are there every day? Isn't it a small scale?"

Zhou Buqi shook his head and said, "I'm not sure about that. I don't pay much attention to things like market share."

Director Liu was surprised and found it hard to understand. He felt that this little Zhou was really a weirdo.

If you don’t care about market share, then what do you care about?

Back then, he led the CNNIC Chinese plug-in to fight with 3721. Wasn't it just for market share?

He kindly educated me: "Mr. Zhou, this is not right. You are the boss, you have to grasp the direction and implement it. How do you see the results? It has to be reflected through data."

Zhou Buqi bowed and laughed at himself: "It's mainly dense data and messy formulas that I can't quite understand."

Director Liu laughed and pointed at him, "Xiao Zhou, don't set a trap for me. Ziweixing has done so well, why can't you read the report?"

Then, he turned around and gave a few instructions to his secretary, asking him to take out this month's search data.

CNNIC holds the main data on the national Internet, and the data they provide is much richer than that provided by Ziweixing. However, it is only the end of January, and a lot of the data has not been audited and sorted out, so the accuracy is not very high.

Ten minutes later, the secretary divided the copied materials into several copies and passed them over.

January is the winter vacation, so it is the peak season for Internet access.

Zhou Buqi still remembers the data from December, the total number of searches in a single month was about 3.3 billion.

Today is only the 25th, and the search volume has already reached 4.2 billion times!

Look at the data below... Zhou Buqi nodded secretly, Zhang Chaoyang suddenly froze, turned his head in disbelief, and stared at him, as if he was possessed.

What a joke!

What an exaggeration!

Baidu still ranks first in the market, with 2.08 billion searches and a market share of 49.5%.

But the second-ranked one... turned out not to be Google, but Weidian!

In the past 25 days, netizens completed 1.36 billion searches through micro-search, with a market share of 32.3%!

Ranking third is Google, with 580 million searches completed and a market share of 13.8%.

Next is Yahoo search, whose market share dropped to 3.1%.

Dozens of other search engines are basically out of business.

Compared with December, Baidu's market share dropped from 65.7% to 49.5%, Google's market share dropped from 16.2% to 13.8%, and Yahoo's market share dropped from 7.8% to 3.1%.

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Too bad!

The main reason is that Yahoo search is really not good. At the beginning of this month, there was a report on domestic search engines in 2006. It was said that in user evaluations, Baidu search was the most praised, and Yahoo search was the most rubbish.

However, judging from the materials in hand, Google's user base is the most loyal. Under the impact of micro-search, its market share has decreased the least. Baidu has suffered the biggest blow.

Zhou Buqi secretly sighed, wondering if a person like Director Liu could be poor? Holding power in his hands is equivalent to having first-hand information.

Baidu suffered such a big blow, and when the news spread, the stock price must have plummeted.

As long as you contact your relatives in the United States and short Baidu in advance, it is easy to achieve financial freedom.

As for this material... Zhou Buqi was not too surprised.

He said he didn't care about data, but Weipoint search is Ziweixing's core strategy. How could he, a big boss, not care? Such a market share did not exceed his expectations.

He even felt that the 32.3% market share was missing.

In the previous life, the market share of 360 series browsers was 70%, and the search share reached 30%. Now the market share of Microdot browsers is 80%, which is only 32.3%, which is really not that high. Especially the Microdot secure browser is still

Bind Hellogo navigation page, default micro-click search, search share will only be higher.

The reason is also very simple, because Micropoint Browser is a new product.

Many users did not download and install it on the 1st of this month.

Today is the 25th. He may have been a user of Weidian Search for only 3 days. It is not surprising that the share ratio is lower than that of 360's supporting facilities.

Waiting until next month will be the time to test the results for the first time. However, to truly verify who is the first between Weidian and Baidu, it will take a longer period of verification.

Micropoint Search is a new product, and users are very curious about it and want to try it out and use it.

If you feel the experience is not good, you might still switch back to Baidu.

Therefore, when doing search, we still have to take a long-term view. Let alone being the second in the market now, even if it surpasses Baidu and becomes the first in the market, this result does not mean anything.

But Zhang Chaoyang is different.

He felt like he couldn't breathe, and his hands holding the document were shaking.

So shocked!

When Sogou was handed over to Weidian, its market share was only 1%.

Even in December, Sogou's market share was only 1.9%, ranking fifth in the country, relying on Ziweixing's channel resources.

Who would have thought that from "Sogou" to "Weidian", a new identity, a transformation, from a marginalized product to the mainstay of domestic search engines!
To be continued...