The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

Chapter 217 has a explosive start [please order for complete data]

Page was surprised to see Li Yanhong because, in his opinion, Penguin was just a start-up company.

Generally speaking, when negotiating major cooperation, senior partners must negotiate in person.

Therefore, it seems that this Chinese person has a high status in Penguin Company.

Maybe he is also one of the founders, it is possible.

"Mr. Li, were you the one who founded Penguin?" Page asked.

Li Yanhong shook his head and said, "No, no! I'm just a part-time worker."

Page asked tentatively: "So, this company was founded by Chinese?"

Li Yanhong smiled and said, "What? Is it important who founded this thing?"

"Yahoo was founded by Chinese people."

In fact, at this time, there are not many Chinese people who have successfully started businesses in the country.

Yahoo is just one example.

The Chinese once established many companies in the country, but they were later swallowed up by Huaer Street.

Page nodded and said, "Mr. Li, you are right, you Chinese are one of the smartest people in the world."

"Speaking of Yahoo, I also worked for it."

"But my boss, Mr. Yang, doesn't pay attention to search engines."

"Back then, Brin and I developed a better search engine software tool. We hoped to sell it to Mr. Yang. We only wanted him $100 million."

"But, he refused."

“We had no choice but to jump out and start our own business.”

Li Yanhong felt a little sorry for Boss Yang after hearing this.

Search engines are really important, but Boss Yang obviously didn’t realize this.

However, in this day and age, this is quite normal.

Because, at the beginning of the development of the Internet, it was the era of portals.

The so-called portal website is a hodgepodge of everything.

When you talk about social networking, the portal website has forums and chat rooms; when you talk about search, they also do it themselves, but it is basically an on-site search.

Most people nowadays go online to socialize and watch information.

As long as these two points are met, it will be sought after by netizens.

Boss Yang cannot see the importance of search engines. This should be his lifelong regret, right?

Li Yanhong said: "This is a blessing in disguise for Mr. Page. Now, your Google should be the most popular software."

Page was obviously very proud: "That's true! Today, our Google market value assessment has exceeded 10 billion dollars."

"Everyone believes that our business potential is great, and now we are also vigorously developing more search by-products."

"Well! We noticed that in China, there is a very good search engine called Qiandu Search. It is very well developed and is an example for us to learn from."

Li Yanhong did not expect that Page would also discover the existence of Qiandu Search.

"Qiandu Search is indeed very good! Alas! Mr. Page, to be honest, I had the idea of ​​returning to China to start a search engine before. But when I went back and saw the development status of Qiandu Search, I I immediately realized that they had left little room for latecomers to catch up, so I gave up on my own entrepreneurial idea.”

Li Yanhong talked about his bitter and short-lived entrepreneurial experience.

He was a little depressed.

Li Yanhong and Page chatted for a while, and then the two began to talk about advertising cooperation.

Page's lion opened his mouth and asked for $1 million for a day of advertising on Google's homepage.

Li Yanhong shook his head and said, "Your price is more expensive than the most eye-catching banner on Yahoo's homepage."

"The best advertisement on Yahoo's homepage only costs $80 a day."

“We actually initially considered advertising on Yahoo.”

"But later, we felt that since we are all startups, it would be good to support Google."

Page said: "Our advertisements are more precise, and the only advertisement on our homepage is yours, which is more eye-catching."

“Yahoo’s homepage is already full of advertisements, but potential users’ interest in clicking on them is actually very low.”

Li Yanhong said with a smile: "Whether users want to click on it or not, the key point is whether the advertisement is attractive to them."

"Mr. Page, you haven't done much to prove the effectiveness of your advertising, why don't you make a friend?"

"You help us today, and when we develop some other time, we can repay you."

Page actually doesn't believe that KK Chat can develop.

Because the influence of Yahoo chat rooms is too great now.

There are also chat software such as ICQ, which are also undergoing fierce market competition.

A brand new chat software, want to develop in North America where there are many strong players?
Easier said than done!
"For 100 million dollars, we can help you promote it for 3 days!"

"It's equivalent to only 1 dollars per day!"

"Is this a discount enough?"

Page is still sticking to the numbers.

Li Yanhong hesitated for a moment. When he came to talk, Tian Hongtao told him a principle: maximizing interests.

Tian Hongtao also said that Google’s influence is actually not much worse than Yahoo’s now.

Advertising on Google is more precise.

Li Yanhong said: "100 million, I want an advertisement on your homepage for seven days."

"In addition, you must rank our KK chat at the top when users search for keywords such as online chat on social software."

This is actually the prototype of bidding ranking.

In his previous life, Li Yanhong had trouble playing bidding ranking.

Page hesitated.

Today, Google's development trend is indeed very good.

However, there is a problem: major advertisers are currently waiting and watching, and very few advertise on Google.

Currently, there are only a few small Karami companies trying to advertise on Google.

Moreover, advertising companies are still in a gray area.

Page was also a little anxious about this.

He is also very eager to open up the advertising revenue pattern as soon as possible.

For Internet companies, the way to monetize revenue today is actually quite narrow, mainly relying on advertising.

However, most companies still believe that advertising on the Internet is unreliable, and they invest most of their advertising in traditional media.

If it can attract this $100 million in advertising, it will be of great significance to Google.

Page thought about it again and again, and finally nodded and said, "Okay!"

"Then, make a friend! Let you see the effect of our Google advertising."

Li Yanhong successfully signed an advertising agreement with Page.

After signing the agreement, Penguin happily paid the advertising costs.

At the same time, the advertising content is also handed over to Google.

Penguin has also published a lot of soft articles to promote KKCHAT on many forums and online platforms, introducing a lot of how the KKchat software is user-friendly and private, how it is suitable for socializing with strangers, and how to accurately find netizens in the same city or even the same area. .

The publication of these soft articles is mainly to cooperate with Google searches.

As long as users are interested, they will inevitably search for KKchat.

After searching for these soft articles, searchers will definitely have a strong interest in this software after reading it.

After all, this software is so friendly. You can make a large number of regular netizens online, keep chat records, and accurately search for the people you want to find.

This is really wonderful.

The main slogan of KKchat is: Let lonely men and women all over the world have a heart-to-heart chat!
The ads on the Google homepage are dynamic flash animations.

The animation shows a strange man and woman meeting each other through KKchat chat and falling in love.

This animation fully demonstrates all the advantages of KK chat.

Moreover, flash animation is a very novel thing at this time.

This animation is very beautiful and attractive.

Just open Google and you can see this animated ad hanging below.

People who see it will stop until they finish it.

And people who read this advertisement will definitely have a strong interest in KK chat.

Penguin North America, Tian Hongtao's office, Tian Hongtao is talking to Li Yanhong.

Now, the advertisement of KK chat has been placed on Google. After this advertisement is placed, it is expected that there will be a large wave of registered users.

What the two are discussing now is how to receive the first batch of registered users.

KK chat is currently in a state where there is no connection with domestic Penguin chat.

Therefore, although it has been launched in the country, there are not many users at all.

Tian Hongtao and Li Yanhong discussed for a long time and finally decided that all Penguin North America employees should be ready to chat online immediately.

This is also a trick Tian Hongtao learned from Ma Huateng. I have no choice but to deal with it first.

"Yan Hong, do you think the people here in Molli Country will like our penguin chat?"

"After all, according to my observation, the Internet ecology here is quite rich."

Tian Hongtao still felt a little unsure.

Li Yanhong said: "I think it should be no problem."

“Our software has several advantages: it can retain and group friends, and recommend to them familiar relatives and friends and nearby people with the same interests; it can retain chat records, and it can accurately find other users in the user’s area of ​​interest; and , our chats also have colorful avatars, and you can also decorate your own avatars, which is a great breakthrough.”

"In short, this software is really excellent. You will definitely like it after using it."

"Although the competition in Internet social networking here in the United States is fierce now, most of them are forums and chat rooms, which cannot fix netizens at all."

"After comparison, our software can be said to be unique."

"Mr. Tian, ​​believe me, it will definitely cause a sensation."

……

After KK Chat was advertised on Google, Page naturally wanted to take a look and experience it first.

He had never seriously watched KK chat ads before.

Because he is not optimistic about the success of this software at all.

Page took a serious look at the entire flash ad as soon as the ad went online.

After reading it, Page was greatly touched.

Can social software still do this?
This idea is great.

Page opened the final download channel of the advertisement, and he downloaded and installed KKchat on his computer.

Page wants to see for himself what this software is like.

Page also downloaded the software ICQ.

He still uses this software to chat today.

How to evaluate this software?

One phrase can describe it: It’s not easy to use!

It's not easy to find someone you want to meet.

Even if you find it, you can't keep it, because the next time you log in, it will disappear, which means that all the emotion and time you spent before are in vain.

Unless you can chat for the first time, you need to get the other party’s offline contact information.

However, offline contact information is really difficult to obtain.

People are too vigilant.

You want to meet offline without chatting a few times to get the other person to let down their guard?

Dream on!
Those guys who are easy to meet you offline are all chicks who have ulterior motives or are looking for customers.

After Page used this ICQ a few times, he was too lazy to use it again. In other words, after Page downloaded and installed KK Chat, he clicked to register a KK Chat account.

This account requires a lot of information.

The reason why I ask so much is to help you find friends of the opposite sex who are more congenial and closer to you.

The so-called Internet socialization is actually about finding more people of the opposite sex and having a big emotional adventure.

This is determined by human nature.

No one can violate it.

After Page registered an account, he immediately logged in to his account.

After logging in, he looked at the interface. The interface of this software was very clear and clear.

Of course, now he doesn't have a single friend on the KK chat.

Page fumbled around for a while, and soon he found a way to add friends.

He opened the interface to add friends and was shocked.

You can actually add nearby people?

Can you actually find people of interest based on region, gender, and age?

This feature is amazing.

It's enough to beat ICQ by a few blocks.

Page was curious and turned on the add nearby people mode.

Dozens of users appeared immediately.

Page was a little surprised: No way? The advertisement has just been launched?

Of course, it may also be that KK has done some promotion before chatting.

There seem to be quite a few women around here.

Because you can tell from the avatar.

Page randomly clicked on the first profile named flying-girl.

The profile opens, and the profile picture is of a blonde cartoon girl.

Looks very cute.

Gender is female, age is only 18, so young.

Page's mind suddenly started to wander.

He added this woman without hesitation.

However, it seems that adding friends requires the other party's consent before they can be added.

Page originally thought that the other party would not necessarily add her as a friend.

However, soon, the other party approved his application as a friend.

They can start chatting.

Of course, Page needs to be more proactive: "Hello! Nice to meet you."

Flying-girl didn't speak for several minutes.

Page shook his head, thinking to himself, it seems that the other party probably doesn't have time to talk at the moment.

He was about to add another friend when flying-girl responded: "Hello, I'm glad to meet you too. I'm sorry that I can't respond to the message in time because I'm busy with work."

Page was excited for a while: "Excuse me, what is your job?"

He sent an emoji of rubbing his hands.

It took another two minutes for the other party to respond to him: "I work as a receptionist in a company."

"I wonder what your job is, sir?"

Just like that, the two of them chatted for a long time without knowing it.

Of course, in the process of chatting, some words of tiger and wolf are indispensable.

……

Tian Hongtao was sitting in his office at Penguin North America Branch. He was extremely busy and a little exhausted.

Because he uses the ID name flying-girl.

There are too many men who have added him as friends.

In just over half an hour, more than a thousand people applied to add him as a friend.

In order to provide the first wave of users who came in to experience the software with a warm and wonderful experience like spring breeze, Tian Hongtao could only bite the bullet and agreed to everyone's application to add friends.

The upper limit of adding friends through the software is 1500 people.

That's quite a lot.

But even so, within a short while, his friends list was almost full.

So many people added him at the same time.

Then, you have to talk to him after adding.

It would be strange if Tian Hongtao wasn't very anxious.

He actually made a plug-in and already preset thousands of regular answers.

But even so, it is unrealistic to chat with hundreds of people at the same time.

It goes without saying that the computer is stuck to death. The key is that it is completely unable to cope with it.

Tian Hongtao was sweating profusely and it took less than an hour before he collapsed and didn't want to talk anymore.

He immediately turned off his KK software.

Tian Hongtao started to look at Penguin's server background data.

He found that after KK Chat was launched with Google ads, more than 40 people registered and logged into the software in just over 30 minutes and started trying to chat on it.

Tian Hongtao is very satisfied with this: the start is still very good.

Now, the most important thing is to see how the user experience feels.

If all these users are satisfied and stay, then KK Chat will be an instant success.

Next, it is estimated that it won’t take too long for KK chat to spread among people’s word of mouth.

At most, within a month, every Internet user in China who is currently online should have at least one KK number.

That night, Tian Hongtao slept very late.

It was around 12:40 at midnight when he took a last look at the registered users of KK Chat. At this time, there were already more than 900 million registered users.

Moreover, the number of people online at the same time is also very high, as many as 70.

Tian Hongtao inquired in the company group and found that all the employees who had originally been chatting had given up the business.

Now, users are starting to have their say in the software.

A week later, KK Chat already has nearly 5 million registered users, and the online rate has repeatedly set new records.

At most, there were even more than 6 million people online at the same time.

……

Page is reading news from the New York Times at Google.

This news is about KK chat.

According to the news, KK Chat has exceeded 4 million registered users, and almost all young and middle-aged people surfing the Internet have registered KK accounts.

Page's face looked a little solemn.

He never expected that this social software would develop so rapidly.

There are more than 30 million users who have downloaded KK chat software from Google's website...

This is a real, high-quality customer!

"Dong dong!"

Brin, another founder of Google, walked in.

Brin shouted: "Page, we have supported a terrible opponent."

"I never expected that KK Chat could be so popular."

Page smiled and said: "No, no! KK Chat cannot be considered our opponent."

"However, I think Yahoo and Aramco will have a lot of headaches now."

Brin shook his head, frowned and said, "No, it should be considered our opponent."

"Before they appeared, we should have been the most watched start-up. The entire Huaer Street was vying to invest in us, and their investment conditions were very favorable."

"But it's different now. KK Chat has now attracted the attention of Hua'er Street. Those guys are now talking about how to contact KK Chat and plan to give them more investment so that they can develop quickly."

Page said: "This may be a good thing for us."

"Actually, we don't really need more investment."

"Those greedy vampires, they now want to take more shares."

"But it's obviously not good for us."

"So, I would say, we have to welcome KK Chat as a distraction."

"We can take it easy now."

"Yeah! I still want to chat with KK about cooperation."

"My hope is that our search engine will be built into their software."

"This will bring us more search volume."

"But if we do that, we're probably going to have to give them some money," Breen said.

Page smiled and said: "Maybe we can use our advertising space to replace it."

"One of us controls the social portal, and the other controls the search portal. If we can cooperate, then such a combination will be invincible in the country of Mili!"

Brin was still doubtful about this: "Then, let's talk to them."

……

KKchat suddenly emerged and explosively became the most popular social software in the country.

This really shocked the entire country.

Yahoo company, Yang Zhiyuan's office, he is frowning at the news about KKchat.

His mood is not very beautiful.

Is this new company taking off too fast?

It completely caught him by surprise.

Yang Zhiyuan has already asked people to contact Penguin. He made a price for Penguin: $5 million to sell the company to Yahoo.

However, this offer was rejected outright. The other party said that the company was not for sale and only wanted to develop itself and had no intention of selling it out.

The purpose of large companies buying growing startups is simple: to solve future competitors.

At the same time, you can also enrich your business lines.

Yahoo is now at its peak, but it also has hidden worries.

For example, the search engine that it had not paid much attention to in the past was turned into a big business by two employees who resigned from Yahoo.

This made Yang Zhiyuan regret it to death.

Social networking can be said to be Yahoo's core business. It has forums and chat rooms. This business is to gather popularity.

If these users are sucked away by KK Chat, it will be a heavy blow to Yahoo.

Yang Zhiyuan's first offer was rejected, and he immediately made a second offer, which went up to $2 million.

This is a very large amount of money.

For the owners of start-up companies, starting a business is to make money. If you can make a lot of money at the beginning of starting a business, it will naturally be the most fragrant.

After selling the company, he immediately became a high net worth billionaire.

But Yang Zhiyuan's offer was rejected again, and Penguin made it clear that it would never consider selling the company!

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