Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 587 Beautiful Engineer

America, California.

Lu Yiming was invited by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to visit Google's new headquarters.

Recently, Sergey Brin and Larry Page have managed the company very well. Not only has the office moved out of the original large warehouse, but even the computer equipment has been fully upgraded.

Larry Page proudly showed off to Lu Yiming the achievements of his and Sergey Brin's hard work, and asked, "Why, isn't everything not bad?"

Lu Yiming said approvingly: "Of course, very good. I believe you will lead Google to create miracles and become legends in the Internet industry."

At this moment, Lu Yiming's cell phone rang, and he said to the two of them, "Excuse me, I'll answer the call."

Lu Yiming walked to the side and just pressed the answer button when he heard Epstein excitedly say on the other end of the phone: "The channel problem has been solved, when will the goods be delivered?"

When Lu Yiming heard it, he was slightly shocked, and blurted out: "So fast?"

At this moment, he also discovered that he still underestimated Epstein's energy.After all, even if this matter is taken a step back, it is still pulling the wool of the United States, which is not allowed by their rules.But Epstein can get it done so quickly, which shows that these rules are of no use to Epstein.

Facing Lu Yiming's astonishment, Epstein was also very proud, feeling as if he had made a big splash in front of the young richest man in the Xia Kingdom.

"Of course sooner rather than later, time is money my friend."

Obviously, as a senior scumbag, Epstein is a full-fledged activist when it comes to making money, and he does things vigorously and resolutely.

"Okay, I'm in California now, and I'll rush over to tell you the follow-up."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yiming said to Sergey Brin and Larry Page: "I need to go to New York now."

Hearing that Lu Yiming was leaving, both Sergey Brin and Larry Page hesitated to speak.In the end, Sergey Brin said, "Why did you just come and leave? I hope you can stay for a few more days."

Lu Yiming said regretfully: "Hey, I also want to stay for a few more days, but there is no way, I am born to work hard."

Larry Page asked curiously: "What have you been up to lately?"

Lu Yiming said vaguely: "It's a small business, but I have to go there myself."

Sergey Brin frowned and said, "Lu, you haven't paid attention to Google's development for a long time. Don't forget, you are our chief strategy officer."

If it is an ordinary investor, Larry Page and Sergey Brin will undoubtedly like Lu Yiming's hands-off shopkeeper.

But in their eyes, Lu Yiming is clearly an Internet genius who can see through the fog of the future. As Google's chief strategy officer, if Lu Yiming doesn't offer advice, he feels a little sorry for the "salary" the company gave him.

When Lu Yiming heard this, he suddenly burst out laughing.It is true that Google will send money to his account every month in the name of salary, but Lu Yiming didn't care about this money at all.After all, he bought a stake in Google because he wanted to be a salted fish, waiting for Sergey Brin and Larry Page to fly with him.

In order to cover up his "dereliction of duty", Lu Yiming immediately said: "Aren't you two making the company flourish now?"

"Actually, we've had some trouble lately," Larry Page said.

When Lu Yiming heard it, he felt a little surprised and asked, "Oh? What's the trouble?"

The two looked at each other, and then Sergey Brin told Lu Yiming.

"Right now there's a little bit of disagreement within Google about the way forward, so we'd like to ask your opinion."

Whether it is Yahoo, which started out by doing search, or other peers, they are currently developing in the direction of portal websites, and the proportion of investment in search services is constantly decreasing.

Because the profitability of the search engine itself is low, even Google, which has started to engage in bidding rankings, has not been able to make much money from it.

On the contrary, the advertising business of the portal website is a sweet potato. After all, the Internet has developed into the cold winter, and many of its peers have been unable to survive and "died". The remaining companies have instead expanded their market share. A large number of users appeared, and web advertisements were sold at a higher price than before.

This has led to some dissenting voices within Google.

There are two paths in front of everyone. One is that Google also takes the route of portal websites.

The other way is to choose Poetry and Yuanfang, and do the opposite. Taking advantage of the fact that the entire industry is in decline, Google is alone, continuing to deepen the search engine field, continuously investing in research and development, and completing technological upgrades.

After understanding the ins and outs of the matter, Lu Yiming asked: "What do you two think?"

Sergey Brin sighed: "The idea of ​​​​the two of us is to continue to strengthen Google's technological advantages until we become an irreplaceable presence in the industry."

As the founders of Google, there is no doubt that both of them are very ambitious and courageous people. They will never forget their original intentions just for the sake of a little profit.

But some Google employees obviously don’t think so. After all, the lofty aspirations and ideals to change the world are just slogans, and slogans cannot be eaten, let alone exchanged for real money.

They join Google and become part-time workers, not to help the boss realize his dream, but to live in a big villa, marry a supermodel wife, and drive a sports car to work every day.

Starting an advertising business, among other things, has the immediate benefit of increasing your bonus every month.

Because of this incident, both Sergey Brin and Larry Page fell into confusion.

It can be said that Lu Yiming is well aware of the future development trend of the Internet.He knows very well that the portal has no future.

Understanding the so-called portal in a narrow sense refers to the application system that provides certain kinds of comprehensive Internet information resources and provides information services.

From this feature, we can know that the portal is eating the dividends of information gap.

However, with the development of the times and the popularization of the Internet and smart technology, people have more and more means of obtaining information, and portals have ceased to exist in name only.

Lu Yiming said with a serious face: "I think Google should focus on the development of the search engine field and increase the usage rate of Google."

Sergey Brin asked: "Why?"

Lu Yiming said seriously: "What is the most important thing on the Internet? It is the users. If you capture the users, Google will be invincible. What is the search volume of Google now?"

Sergey Brinton proudly puffed out his chest and said: "At the beginning, the search volume on Google was only [-] per day, but now it has increased to [-] million per day!"

This data, looking at the present, definitely beats all the peers.

Lu Yiming said categorically: "As the usage rate of Google is getting higher and higher, advertisers will be attracted to us. Why? Because the users are all here!"

The two were originally more inclined to technology research and development, so after getting Lu Yiming's approval, they were very happy.Larry Page said, "It's great that you think like we do."

He then went on to say: "Yahoo was the dominant Internet search engine long before Google was a verb. But now times have changed and we have even become the provider of Yahoo's search engine."

It has to be said that Yahoo is a representative of the kind of good cards played poorly. The destiny starts and the sky ends. Excessive commercialization leads to a comprehensive backwardness in the field of technology, which is the root cause of Yahoo's failure.

An Internet company that started off relying on search, in the end, even users who log in to the Yahoo portal do not use Yahoo's own search engine, but use Google.

From this point alone, we can see how different the structure and future of the two companies are.

For some reason, Lu Yiming remembered a certain degree.

The development of Moudu and Google can't be said to be exactly the same in the early stage, but they are also very similar.

But why did the two later embark on completely different development paths?
Google has become a super giant group with a market value of 1.2 US dollars. In contrast, a certain degree is only 469 billion US dollars, which is really not even a fraction of others.

Everyone is a search engine, why is there such a big difference?

After Google had money, it continued to make continuous efforts in the technical field, and the results were brilliant.

Online video companies include Youtube, operating systems include Android, search engines include Google Search, advertising networks include AdSense, hardware devices such as Google Smart Glasses, and Google Cloud.It even got involved in some non-Google businesses, such as medical health, optical fiber transmission, X laboratory, unmanned waymo life service, capital operation and other fields.

Through years of continuous development, Google has gradually expanded from the search business to broader cutting-edge technology exploration and development.

To be precise, Google, more than ten years later, has transformed from a search engine company into an Internet technology company.

In contrast, a certain degree is "all about money", the projects and products produced basically have no technical content, and it has been relying on bidding rankings to get its money, completely losing the ambition and courage to continue to forge ahead.

"If a person has no dreams, what is the difference from a salted fish?"

Sergey Brin ignored Lu Yiming's emotion, but asked: "We made a Google toolbar, and I want you to give some reference."

Google's technical team is now developing a dedicated toolbar for Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Firefox.The purpose is to make users' online browsing more convenient and efficient, and help users get rid of all kinds of troubles in Web browsing.

In fact, browser toolbars are a pretty old product.

In the early days of the Internet era, as the core channel for the vast majority of netizens to access the Internet to obtain information, the design of the browser is still very simple, and it can basically only guarantee the needs of users to enter the URL through the address bar to access the website.

Lu Yiming asked, "Why are you doing this?"

Sergey Brin said: "We intend to improve the browser on the basis of the original, providing a series of functions including a word translator and a pop-up blocker."

When Lu Yiming heard it, hey guy, isn't this just a browser plug-in?
As a senior netizen, he is familiar with this stuff.

Today's browsers are very different from the browsers used in later generations.To put it simply, the current browser is still a blank, except for the most basic functions, there is nothing else.However, the browsers of the era that Lu Yiming lived in before his rebirth were all well-decorated and filled with all kinds of fancy functions.

Most of these functions appear in the form of plug-ins.That's what Sergey Brin called a toolbar.

Lu Yiming doesn't know who made the plug-in first, but at least the browser he uses to surf the Internet now doesn't have it.

Maybe it was Google?

Sergey Brin sincerely invited: "We have already made a prototype product, are you interested in trying it out?"

Lu Yiming readily agreed: "Of course."

Lu Yiming was taken to the laboratory and tried the so-called Google Toolbar on a computer.

Speaking of which, the plug-ins used by Lu Yiming's later generations all survived the fierce competition and were pushed to the users. The degree of sophistication can be imagined.But the toolbar in front of him is a completely groping product, which is far from the small plug-ins in Lu Yiming's impression.

As soon as he got started, Lu Yiming felt very awkward, almost everything was wrong.

The most important thing is that there is no direct access to the search box web page.

That is to say, if you enter a keyword in this toolbar, you will jump to the Google search results, and then click on the search results, instead of entering a WWW. URL or directly entering keywords like later generations It will automatically jump to the relevant page.

Lu Yiming said: "I think this toolbar needs to add a function that can directly enter the website name to browse the website without the URL."

Then, he explained the specific operation and logic of this function.

Sergey Brin exclaimed: "This is really a genius idea, why didn't I think of it?"

Although this function is not technically difficult, if Lu Yiming didn't point it out, Google probably would have to spend a while collecting user information and feedback before thinking of it.

Sergey Brin flattered: "You are worthy of being our CSO at Google! Look, doesn't this solve a big problem?"

Later, he complained again: "You should come and walk around when you have nothing to do. Our product manager doesn't even have one-tenth of your skills."

Larry Page joked: "Don't let Mayer hear this, or she will be very upset."

At this moment, a pleasant voice floated over with a faint scent of perfume: "What do you want me to hear?"

Appearing in front of the three of them was a blond girl with a hot body and sweet looks. She was Marissa Mayer, the current product manager of Google.

Seeing Marisa Mayer approaching, Sergey Brin could not help shrinking his neck guiltily.

Wearing red patent leather high-heeled shoes and brown stockings, Marisa Mayer has a cheerful and charming smile. She graduated from Stanford University and just turned 25 this year, which is a very attractive age for women.

As one of the company's veterans, she joined Google in 25, and she is also Google's first female engineer. In the future, she will even become one of the "[-] Leaders in the Innovation Industry" by Business Week.

Of course, she herself is recognized as the most beautiful woman in Silicon Valley, and the goddess that countless male colleagues in Google company look forward to.

But at this moment, the goddess' eyes fell on Lu Yiming, with a bit of curiosity: "Are you our CSO?"

The CSO of this company is so elusive that most people in the company have only heard his name and never seen him in person.

Lu Yiming took the initiative to shake hands with Marisa Mayer.

I have to say that when European and American women are young, they do have a different style that makes people feel a little hard.But the duration of this style is too short, and once it passes 35, it will change rapidly.At the age of 60 or 70, basically you can't watch it.It's not like the Xia people, as long as they are well maintained, they can grow old at the age of six or seventy.

Marisa Mayer didn't know what was going on in Lu Yiming's mind, and said with a smile: "I know you, young billionaire, the newspapers say that you are a thief from the East, who stole billions from the US stock market." Dollar."

Lu Yiming immediately denied it and said: "How can you say that you are robbing the stock market? I have clearly completed the reallocation of resources legally."

Marissa Mayer was amused by Lu Yiming's witty words, and she was even more curious about Lu Yiming in her heart.

Leaving the stock market aside, she has heard a lot about Lu Yiming's deeds from Sergey Brin and Larry Page even in the company's internal work.

This made her a little unconvinced. After all, as a product manager of Google, her contribution in her own job was actually lost to Lu Yiming, a "layman".

Lu Yiming didn't even come to the company for a meeting!

But no matter how carefully she designed the product, every time she submits it, she will be called back soon to ask her to modify or even redo it, causing her to work overtime.

And she only found out later that the person who suggested improvements to these projects and products was none other than Lu Yiming.

Lu Yiming only needs to take a few glances at the products she has worked so hard to point out a lot of deficiencies, and all of them have something to say, so people can't do anything to refute them.

Thinking of these things, Marisa Mayer gritted her teeth and looked at Lu Yiming provocatively: "I heard you are a genius?"

Lu Yiming said humbly: "It's just so-so."

Marissa Mayer was even more upset when she heard that.After all, losing to a genius doesn't seem to be an unacceptable thing.

She said angrily: "Do you know how much trouble your previous 'points' have caused me?"

However, in the face of the beauty's anger, Lu Yiming didn't know it. Instead, he argued: "But, do you think that after the modification according to my opinion, those products have become more perfect?"

Seeing Lu Yiming's triumphant smile, Marisa Mayer was so angry that her bust got bigger.

(End of this chapter)