Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2335 Rectification
In the acquisition of Snapchat, Zhou Buqi and Yang Zhiyuan had a very good cooperation.

The entire case was led by Yang Zhiyuan, the new executive director of Ziweixing International, which also brought him a good feeling of returning to the front line of the Internet.

With the premise of such a pleasant cooperation, it is time for Zhou Buqi to start rectifying Yahoo.

What Xu Liangjie and Zheng Xiaoli did was to create a new business under the existing Yahoo system, with as little collision as possible with the old system.

This is actually a shortcut.

In order to complete the acquisition of Yahoo, the total transaction volume exceeded 200 billion U.S. dollars. Such a large amount of money did not come from strong winds, which required Zhou Buqi to attack the old system.

However, this matter cannot be rushed.

It should be divided into three steps.

First, business restructuring;

Second, asset restructuring.

The third step is to cut melons and vegetables, shut down those that should be closed, sell those that should be sold, and lay off all those that should be laid off.

Now, Zhou Buqi and Shen Xiangyang came to Yahoo's research institute and research center in the capital, in fact, to start from the field of scientific research, first to rectify Yahoo's scientific research institutions!
When it comes to rectifying scientific research institutions, other countries should wait a while and start at home first.

It's easier to do it in China. After all, this is Zhou Buqi's stronghold. Even if conflicts intensify during the rectification process and cause a large number of employees to resign... that's okay, with Ziweixing's network and appeal, they can quickly make up for it. come up.

First went to the research center of Yahoo Capital.

The president of the research center is a Chinese named Zhang Chen. He is a doctor who has returned from the United States and has a very distinguished resume.He used to work at the Yahoo headquarters, but later Yahoo established a research center in China and sent him back.

It was the first time for Zhou Buqi to meet this President Zhang Chen, and he didn't give him a good face.

It is 04:30 in the afternoon.

The office area of ​​the research center is already more than half empty.

Just annoying.

Even if this is a foreign company and they don't work overtime at night, but it's not time to finish get off work yet, where is this person?This looks like neglect of management, which will cause huge waste to the company!
In fact, not only Yahoo, but also the research institutes of foreign companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Oracle in China are almost the same.

Everyone has no sense of responsibility.

Anyway, working for foreigners, you can fish if you can.Moreover, the big boss is a foreigner and is not supervised in the country.The people in charge here in China are all Chinese and compatriots, and they don't care about leisure and entertainment at all.

When Zhou Buqi saw this situation before, he still thought it was quite funny.

It's very annoying now.

Yahoo is his company now, and he will not allow the person in charge here to be so irresponsible and waste his money.

It must be rectified!
Zhang Chen, the president of Yahoo! Capital Research Center, was also a little dizzy. Unexpectedly, Boss Zhou and Shen Xiangyang suddenly visited, and a wave of surprise attacks came!
Fortunately, he was not in a hurry to get off work today.It would be too miserable if the big boss came and he left work early.

Now, the case of Ziweixing International's acquisition of Yahoo has not been officially approved by the US authorities, and the legal procedures have not yet been completed.Strictly speaking, Zhou Buqi can't control Zhang Chen for the time being.

But everyone knows that the case has been settled and approval is certain.The reason for the delay is mainly because Yahoo is a listed company, and it has to go through a very complicated delisting procedure, prepare funds, and buy back stocks in the hands of retail investors.

Zhang Chen didn't dare to neglect, so he hurriedly took the two immediate superiors to visit, and showed the success of the work.

This research center was established in March last year.

Now there are more than 180 employees, mainly combining technology and engineering closely, and engaging in two major directions.

The first major direction is PC-side projects led by technology, including search, advertising, cloud computing, personalization and so on.

The second direction is the center of the mobile Internet, and it is necessary to develop products under a new model around terminal devices such as tablets and smart phones.

Zhou Buqi was dissatisfied when he heard it, "It has to be changed."

Zhang Chen was slightly taken aback, "What to change?"

But Zhou Buqi was not talking to him, and looked at Shen Xiangyang next to him, "The PC end and the mobile end cannot be separated. This kind of organizational structure is very serious. There are still many technology companies continuing this wrong line. .It has to follow Ziweixing’s model.”

Shen Xiangyang nodded, "Well, it needs to be changed."

Zhang Chen was at a loss, but very guilty. Next, he introduced the three new projects he led the research center this year.Other businesses are all about assisting others and providing technical support, so I really can't show my credit.

These three new products are the real "achievements".

Zhang Chen introduced three products with great effort, one is the CORE technology for browsing personalized web pages, and the other two are the featured search tools AppSearch and AppSpot on the mobile terminal.

Zhou Buqi looked at it and remained calm.

Zhang Chen said with a smile: "the research center has a new product development team with about 50 engineers. I have divided it into two parts, one is the PC side and the other is the mobile side. The CORE technology of the personalized webpage is made by the development team on the PC side. Yes, the other two search tools are in the charge of the mobile development team.”

This can't fool Zhou Buqi.

In more than half a year, this development team composed of more than 50 people has done this?
In small countries like Spain and Chile, this is not too bad. If the level of IT technology is not enough, and foreign engineers are working hard, 50 people can make such achievements in half a year, which is not too bad.

But things are wrong in the country.

For this amount of work, 50 engineers can do it in one month.

They have been doing it for over 7 months!
One of the most important reasons why domestic Internet companies can defeat the foreign technology giants that come to China for development is the workload and work efficiency, which makes domestic companies more competitive in the market.

Before, Zhou Buqi was complacent about it.Now it's no longer possible, Yahoo is his company, so I really can't understand this kind of laziness.

Zhou Buqi focused on the so-called CORE technology of personalized web pages, and he didn't quite understand the complicated technical principles mentioned by the other party, so he could only ask the product, "Has this technology been applied?"

Zhang Chen said with a smile: "It has been applied. Personalized web pages and personalized advertisement recommendations are popular now. Yahoo is also following up. At present, this technology has been applied in the South American market."

"What about Europe and the United States?"

Zhou Buqi basically understood that this was using the South American market as a test field.

"Not yet." Zhang Chen shook his head, and then showed full confidence, "However, this is the general trend of the industry. Yahoo must reform and develop towards individualization in an all-round way."

Zhou Buqi asked a very sharp question: "However, most of Yahoo users are anonymous, how to display personalized pages?"

Zhang Chen talked eloquently and said a few ideas.

Not much nutrition.

After leaving here, Shen Xiangyang asked strangely: "Why don't you look at those two special search tools?"

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "What's there to see? It's useless!"

Shen Xiangyang laughed and said, "How can you be sure? This is a product of the service on the mobile side."

Zhou Buqi said: "It's useless to serve any end, there is no vertical market in the search industry!"

This is a bit arbitrary.

More or less still exist, such as movie resource search, novel resource search and so on.

Sometimes using general search platforms like Google and Baidu may not be able to find scarce resources, so you need to use this kind of vertical search tool.

However, the market share of this kind of vertical search is very small.

Less negligible.

For individual small companies, developing a vertical search tool with a small share and earning 10,000+ per year is quite satisfying.

But how can Yahoo do such a thing?

This was once the world's largest search company, and almost all Internet information was searched through Yahoo.Later, Google appeared, various competitors appeared, and Yahoo was reduced to develop in the vertical search field...

It's just embarrassing.

Even if it could be done, Zhou Buqi didn't bother to do it, and said angrily: "This direction is wrong. The general direction is wrong. The two search tools developed by Zhang Chen are not good, no matter how good they are. Look, waste of time."

Shen Xiangyang shook his head and sighed, "That's a pity. The new product development team he recommended so hard has made zero actual contributions in the past half a year. It's hard to say for Yahoo, but it's really nothing for Ziweixing. significance."

Zhou Buqi asked: "Isn't the technology of personalized webpage not working?"

Shen Xiangyang was very disapproving, "What Ziweixing made three or four years ago is better than his."

Zhou Buqi twitched his lips, "Is this for the European and American markets? Are there cultural differences?"

Shen Xiangyang said with a smile: "Cultural differences need to be considered when presenting products. How can there be any cultural differences in technology? The CORE personalized technology he mentioned is actually the multi-head algorithm of Toutiao... Anyway, it is a technical direction that Toutiao abandoned at the beginning. .”

Zhou Buqi asked, "What's the reason?"

"The reason for the scale." Shen Xiangyang briefly explained this, "I don't believe that Zhang Chen doesn't understand, he deliberately took advantage of that. As you said just now, most of Yahoo users are anonymous. So in Yahoo In most cases, there is no need to apply this kind of personalized page. This CORE technology will only be applied when the user is logged in and there is evidence to check."

Zhou Buqi immediately understood, "When the scale is small, the CORE technology he developed can be applied relatively well. But once the scale becomes large and all Yahoo users log in, this technology will not work."

Shen Xiangyang smiled and said: "Yes, that's what it means, and that's why Toutiao gave up this route at the beginning. The load capacity is not enough. Once there are too many users online at the same time, it will take up a lot of memory. If the server load is too large, it will easily cause the page Flash Crash. I think he saw that Yahoo couldn’t do personalized applications and couldn’t solve the problem of anonymous users, so he chose such an easier technical route by coincidence.”

Zhou Buqi said decisively: "If it's time to rectify it, rectify it, and if it's time to replace it, replace it!"

(End of this chapter)