I was born again with 100 million

Chapter 542 Lost!Big loss!

"Is there a new version of QQ?"

The smile on Wang Zhidong's face suddenly subsided. QQ was updated at this time. Even if others didn't mention it, he knew that it must be related to the attack of the three major portals.

However, Wang Zhidong's expression was not too flustered, but he asked calmly, "What function did they update?"

"Picture transmission, music sharing, QQ group... Among these functions, the most important one may be the QQ group." The man who came in said seriously.

When Wang Zhidong heard what his people said so seriously, he immediately came to the computer and started to open QQ to study.

And when he opened QQ to complete the upgrade and began to study the group chat, his expression suddenly became serious.

Although he has never done instant messaging before and has only entered this field for more than 20 days, he also knows that the appearance of the QQ group function can greatly promote the activity of QQ users.

"Call the technicians over immediately." Wang Zhidong stopped the people who were going out as soon as he finished speaking.

"Wait a minute, call the entire project team for a meeting."

……

On Sohu, Zhang Chaoyang was doing almost the same thing as Wang Zhidong. After discovering the updated group function of QQ, he immediately organized people from the instant messaging project team to discuss together.

QQ group, they must follow up.

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For NetEase, Ding Lei was among the first batch of owners of the company to discover the update of the QQ version.

In fact, these days, Ding Lei has been using two chat software at work, one is Netease Bubble developed by his company, which is the chat software he mainly uses now.

The other one is QQ.

Among the three major portal websites, Ding Lei is actually the person who has the most contact with Lin Xiao and Gengu Network.

He and Brother Xiao Ma were both born in the same year and the same month, and they have also been acquaintances for many years. They have many contacts with Eternal Network.

And for the ancient network, he also knows best.

Because he often communicates with Xiao Ma, Ding Lei has always been aware of the importance of QQ to Eternal Network.

So from the very beginning, Ding Lei never thought that Eternal Network would choose to ignore it when faced with the attack of the three major companies.

He hangs on QQ every day, just wanting to know what's happening on QQ as soon as possible.

After 20 days passed, there was no news from QQ, and Ding Lei almost doubted whether everything said by the outside world was true.

And at this moment, QQ was updated!
Ding Lei read the updated content of QQ almost immediately, and then updated the version.

Not only that, Ding Lei even set up a group immediately after logging into QQ, and the name of this group is Netease Bubble Project Team.

In the NetEase company, when the NetEase Bubble project team received Ding Lei's notice to log on to QQ, everyone was a little confused.

Of course, what was even more confusing was that Ding Lei actually started chatting in the QQ group.

"What do you think of this function of the QQ group?"

It took more than a minute after the message was sent, but no one responded.

Ding Lei had to add something at this time, and continued to send a message.

"What about the question? No one answered? Tell the truth!"

After Ding Lei sent out these words, the QQ group immediately began to flash messages.

"This QQ stream is very convenient, and you can choose regular friends."

"I think we should follow up this function immediately. It is too convenient for communication. For example, when discussing QQ groups now, everyone can speak, and what everyone says can be known by everyone at the first time. Communication is too convenient. "

"Some people have already started to pull me into the QQ classmate group, and the activity of QQ should usher in another increase."

"We are going to develop it soon. In addition to the convenience of communication, the key to the QQ group is the aggregation effect. If we don't follow up, our users may go back immediately."

……

Ding Lei frowned slightly as he watched the news come out.

At this time, he simply stopped the meeting and started sending messages directly in the group.

"On the technology side, come up with a development plan immediately, and we will follow up as soon as possible."

"On the market side, pay attention to changes in our user data in a timely manner."

……

After sending out the instructions one by one, Ding Lei immediately started calling Wang Zhidong again.

Then, the phone was hung up.

Ding Lei then called Zhang Chaoyang again, but was also hung up.

"It seems that they have also discovered the QQ version update, and they should be dealing with it in a meeting." Ding Lei muttered inwardly.

Immediately rubbing his forehead, Eternal Network is really not that easy to deal with. A version update can catch several companies by surprise.

However, how could the ancient network react so quickly?

Although the outside world has been saying that there is no movement in the ancient network for 20 days, but just now they estimated that it is too difficult to make such a version update in 20 days.

It would take more than 20 days for Netease to copy the existing functions, not to mention that Eternal Network still has to think of a plan?
……

Different from the dignifiedness of the three major portals after seeing the QQ group, the netizens are more happy.

Before that, there were instant messaging software such as QQ, and there were also places where group chats could be held, such as chat rooms. However, the emergence of QQ groups gave netizens the first Internet tool to interact with small circles.

And the enthusiasm of netizens was also greatly aroused.

On the day when the QQ version was updated, the number of QQ groups established exceeded 50, and in the following two days, the number of QQ groups also increased significantly.

Corresponding to the growth of QQ groups, is the rapid growth of QQ user activity.

First of all, the QQ users who were attracted by the three major portals returned quickly. Whether they stopped talking about QQ before or talked about a few softwares, they all started talking about QQ again.

In contrast, the activity of the chat software of the three major portals is rapidly decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the past 20 days or so, netizens have actually reached the later stage, and have long been tired of frequently changing chat software.

Regarding the instant messaging software developed by several portal websites, there is actually not much novelty at all, because the three softwares are almost copied from QQ.

In the early stage, the reason why it was able to attract so many people to use it was indeed the influence of the three major portals at the same time.

On the other hand, several companies have provided real money to subsidize, whether it is 10 yuan for calls or 120 text messages, at this stage, they are still attractive.

And at this stage, those who want to get the event rewards have also got it, and there is no sense of novelty. Whenever there is any movement on QQ, they will naturally return one after another.

On the third day of the new QQ version update, Eternal Network.

Lin Xiao didn't go to the ancient network until after three o'clock in the afternoon. As soon as he came upstairs, Xiao Ma immediately greeted him with a happy face and reported.

"Boss Lin, our user activity and concurrent online numbers are back."

"It's not been three days yet." Lin Xiao asked Xiao Ma with a smile.

"It's true that it's only been three days." Little Ma nodded, "The popularity of the QQ group has far exceeded our expectations, and the users have expressed very high enthusiasm."

"If we follow this momentum, we may increase our active users and concurrent online numbers by 5% in five days, not even a week."

Lin Xiao nodded, and then asked Little Ma, "What's the reaction from those three companies?"

"Not yet." Little Ma shook his head.

"Unless they have good product ideas, they will just follow the QQ group model to update."

"It's not so easy to imitate us." Lin Xiao smiled at this time.

"After two or 30 days, I just don't know how many of their users will be left."

At this time, Lin Xiao discovered that several major portal websites followed up and attacked QQ in advance. Compared with the previous life, there are advantages and disadvantages.

For the three major portals, the advantage is that QQ's user base at this time is not yet desperately large, so the entire social relationship has not been fully established, and it is easier for them to scoop up users.

This is also the reason why several major portals and some activities can attract so many netizens to register and experience in a short period of time.

The disadvantage is that the previous QQ functions were not complete and powerful, and the products they imitated were naturally the same.

Unlike the previous life, when several major portal websites took action, many functions of QQ had already been perfected, and they could just copy them. Even if QQ wanted to counterattack at once, it was not so easy.

But now, Lin Xiao just threw out a QQ group function at will, and let several companies catch them blind.

And such a function, Lin Xiao naturally also has it.

"By the way, the next version update plan agreed yesterday can be prepared." Lin Xiao said to Xiao Ma at this time.

"If they will launch a QQ group and have a certain impact on our users, then look for an opportunity to launch a new version, if not, then wait for the portal to launch when it is online."

Hearing Lin Xiao's order, Xiao Ma immediately nodded in response.

The three major companies, Sina, Sohu, and NetEase, naturally wouldn't know at this time that Lin Xiao still had a bunch of good things waiting for them.

In fact, the return of users brought about by a QQ group function has already made them a little bit burnt out.

In the Sina headquarters, Wang Zhidong listened to the data reported by his subordinates.

"Mr. Wang, in the past three days, our user registration has only increased by more than 30, with an average of about 10 a day."

"Don't tell me the number of registered users." Wang Zhidong waved his hand impatiently.

"How many people are online at the same time?"

"Only 20."

Hearing this answer, Wang Zhidong frowned deeply.

"20. At our peak, we had 700 million registered users and 70 people were online at the same time. According to this calculation, we only have 200 million active users now?"

"It's almost the data."

Hearing his subordinate's answer, Wang Zhidong felt his heart bleeding.

Previously, in order to achieve the pincer effect and poach QQ users as much as possible in the short term, the three companies all came up with activity plans and used money to subsidize them.

Although not all of the 700 million registered users of Sina have received the subsidy, the number of people who have actually registered for the subsidy for 24 hours is still around 600 million.

According to Sina's activity plan, each person will be given 10 yuan as a gift. Of course, in actual operation, Sina has also reached an agreement with China Mobile.

But even so, the cost of each user of Sina has to reach about 8 yuan.

These days, it's not so easy to get discounts on phone bills.

So calculated in this way, Sina spent 20 million in subsidies in the past 5100 days alone.

5100 million, if it can be converted into several million long-term users, although it is a bit more expensive, it is still a good deal.

But now, the QQ version has only been updated for three days, and the number of concurrent online users is only 20, which means that there are only about 200 million active users of Sina's "chat chat".

The 5100 million subsidy only brought in 200 million active users. The cost of this money really made Wang Zhidong heartbroken.

At this stage, it was 2001, and the cold winter of the Internet was still going on. Even if it was a listed company, it didn't have much money.

More importantly, the current users on QQ are still increasing their activity, which means that the active users of chatting bar may even continue to decrease in the future.

After more than 20 days, chat bar will also develop group chat, how many users will be left by then?
Lose!Big loss!

In Wang Zhidong's heart, he was really bleeding right now.

"Okay, you go out." Wang Zhidong waved his hand to signal him to go out.

Leaning on the back of the chair and sighing, he picked up the phone again and dialed Ding Lei's cell phone.

"Mr. Ding, what's the churn rate of NetEase Bubble users over there?"

Hearing Wang Zhidong's question, Ding Lei smiled wryly, "Over 70%"

"The text messages I donated have reached 5800 million, but now, there are only about 240 million active users."

After Ding Lei finished talking, Wang Zhidong also told about the situation on Sina.

After speaking, the two of them sighed together.

"Chaoyang's side is better." Ding Lei suddenly sighed at this time.

At the beginning, Sohu Zhang Chaoyang did not directly adopt the form of subsidies, but followed suit to create a virtual community such as QQ Show, and then gave away characters and props.

Although at first glance, it seems that the benefits that users get are the same, or even a little higher, because Sohu gave away props worth 15 yuan.

But that doesn't really require companies to shell out so much money.

Therefore, Sohu only paid some development and operating costs, and did not provide real money to subsidize it.

While Ding Lei and Wang Zhidong were sighing, Zhang Chaoyang was indeed secretly grateful.

Because Sina and Netease took the lead in formulating a publicity plan, Zhang Chaoyang finally chose not to use cash to subsidize, although in terms of user growth, it is indeed not as good as Sina and Netease.

But now, at least there is no need to lose so outrageously, but Zhang Chaoyang's luck did not last long.

At 9:9 p.m. Yanjing time and [-]:[-] a.m. US time, the Nasdaq opened, and the stock prices of China's three major portal websites all fell!

After last year's turbulent decline, at the beginning of the year, with the relative stability of Nasdaq, the stock prices of several companies also stabilized slightly.

However, at this moment, the three major web portals lost too quickly and completely in the competition with Eternal Network, causing the stock prices of the three web sites to start to fall crazily!
(End of this chapter)