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Chapter 2185 Search Engines
In April, when the photo was issued in a blink of an eye, Duan Yun finally received good news from BJ, that is, after consultations between the two teams, Duan Yun finally reached an agreement with ICBC, and signed a formal contract at the Shenzhen headquarters, ICBC Became the first cooperative guarantee bank for Tianyin Group's e-commerce plan online payment system.

This matter is very timely for Duan Yun, because his online payment system has been successfully developed last month, and its security is very high.Although it is far inferior to the wireless payment system that can use fingerprints and face scans in later generations, it is already the simplest payment method for people in this era. The other party only needs to open an account in ICBC and store enough amount, then after three simple operations, you can complete the online payment.

Although Telling Group currently has only one cooperative bank for online payment guarantee business, it has indeed become the first domestic e-commerce website with independent online payment function, and is at the forefront of all domestic companies.

In addition, in the past two months, Duan Yun has also carried out two major upgrades to his e-shopping platform. The first time is to add a search system inside the website. After Internet users open the website, they can search by letter or search bar Enter the product name to conduct a product search and find the product you want.

In the current era, Internet search engines are still in the initial stage of development, and many technologies are not mature enough.

Search engines first appeared in 1990. At that time, FTP servers were still used to upload files, not web page transfers.

In June 1993, Word Wide Web Wanderer, the first Web search engine in history, appeared, only for collecting URLs.

In October of the same year, ALIWEB, the second web search engine, was born. It can retrieve information such as titles and tags, but the subject content of files still cannot be indexed.

In January 1994, Infoseek was founded, and later officially launched the search service, and allowed webmasters to submit URLs to Infoseek.

Robin Li, the founder of Baidu, was one of the core engineers of Infoseek at that time.In April of the same year, Jerry Yang and David Filo founded Yahoo! , was used as a manual URL collection at that time, and "lived" in the domain name of Stanford University.

In the previous life, the earliest search engine in China was Sohu.com.

In 1995, Zhang Chaoyang, the founder of Sohu, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and returned to China. He used venture capital to establish Aitexin Information Technology Co., Ltd., and officially established Sohu.com in 1998.

In the field of Chinese search engines, Sohu.com was the first website (SOHU) to participate in the classification and navigation of network information search.However, due to the limitations of its manual classification and submission, with the rapid increase of network information, it is gradually replaced by a new generation of information technology based on automatic crawling and intelligent classification by robots.

Tianyin Group officially started the research and development of the Internet output engine at the beginning of this year. It is still in charge of the Spark Studio, but a special team has been separated from the Spark Studio to engage in the research and development of the search engine. With the current In terms of technology, at the end of this year, Tianyin Group will launch a portal website with a search engine, and the internal search engine currently used by Tianyin's electronic shopping platform is developed by this group.

In fact, the search engine of the Tianyin e-commerce website is very simple. All the products entered into the website have been finely classified and labeled. The product with the search character sticks to the top.

Just such a simple function has cost the R&D team a lot of effort, because everything has to be started from scratch. The most important thing is that the code should be as simple as possible, without affecting the smoothness of the entire computer and webpage. It is the most difficult, because there is a big gap between the current computer and network speed compared with later generations, so the early programmers are actually masters of data compression.

At the same time, Duan Yun's software R&D centers in BJ and overseas are developing more powerful Internet search engines, similar to Google and Baidu in later generations.

Google is a search engine invented in September 1998 by two Stanford University doctoral students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Google Inc. was founded in 9.

In July 2000, Google replaced Inktomi as Yahoo's search engine, and in September of the same year, Google became China's NetEase search engine.

In other words, before Google was officially established, there was no professional Internet search company, but there were some other websites with certain search functions.

Among them, WebCrawler and AltaVista are the most used websites with search functions.

WebCrawler was born in January 1994. It was designed by Brian Pinkerton of the University of Washington and was originally a desktop application.In April of the same year, the online version was launched.When it first started, WebCrawler had 1 websites in its database.Among the older generation of search engines, WebCrawler is considered an ancient and active search engine.It retired its own database in 4 in favor of ports from Google and Yahoo.

Launched in December 1995, AltaVista was one of the most popular search engines in the 12s. AltaVista's popularity is largely due to the search engine's design interface; it was the first on the web to have a searchable database and an accessible interface.On the day it went live, the site attracted more than 90 visitors.And within two years, the daily traffic reached 300000 million. In 8000, Overture acquired the site for $2003 million, the same year Yahoo acquired Overture.The final website went offline in 1.4.

In addition, there are several websites that have similar search functions, but in general, these search websites cannot be compared with Google, and there is a certain gap in terms of search functions and ease of use.

Duan Yun's search engine development is currently being developed in the R&D center located in Silicon Valley, the United States. The reason why he chooses the United States is because the Internet in the United States is more developed, and it is more convenient and comprehensive to test all aspects of developing such software, and Duan Yun originally It is intended to be the first to establish an Internet search company in the United States, and if possible, it will replace Google.

Entering mid-April, Tianyin Group's shopping website has listed more than 700 kinds of goods. In addition to Tianyin Group's own electronic products, there are also some products produced by their own companies that have joined member dealers.

Compared with the hundreds of thousands or millions of products on the shopping websites of later generations, the shelves of Tianyin Group's shopping platform seem too shabby. Not only are the number of products small, but the types are mostly concentrated in some electronic products and auto parts. Very limited.

However, despite this, Tianyin Group's shopping website is still the largest online shopping platform in China, and it is also the only website that has online payment and home delivery services. From this moment on, Duan Yun's e-commerce plan has completed the most important The first step...

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