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

Chapter 242: Close Combat Competition [Request for full order and data]

In the previous life, most of Amei’s Internet companies had entered China.

Companies like Google, Amazon, Yahoo, etc. have all worked hard in China.

Google was considered to be doing relatively well at the time.

However, under fair competition, it was eventually defeated by Baidu.

Later, Google, which claimed that it did no evil, committed suicide by refusing to cooperate with management and had no choice but to withdraw on its own, completely losing the Chinese market.

However, online platforms such as Amazon and Yahoo have never been popular in China. They were basically half-dead and eventually had to close down.

In this life, under the leadership of Zhang Zhipeng, China's Internet is well-funded, technologically advanced, and extremely competitive.

In this situation, can Amy's company survive?

Of course, if they are willing to come, then it should be encouraged.

After all, they come here to invest in order to boost domestic economic development!

Zhang Zhipeng talked a lot with Hua Teng and a few others.

Also gave them a lot of suggestions.

In short, Zhang Zhipeng does not interfere with their specific operations.

However, the general direction and some suggestions still need to be given.

Hua Teng was very emotional: when he led the team to develop QQ, he had no confidence at all.

At the critical moment, Zhang Zhipeng gave him a series of suggestions, and the development of QQ after it went online was extremely smooth.

As soon as it was launched, it became a phenomenal Internet social software in China.

You can start making money within a few months of going online.

One year after its launch, it has developed into a comprehensive Internet company.

In addition to social networking, small game communities have been set up and some large-scale domestic games have also started to be launched.

Even a huge self-media platform, Weibo, has developed.

However, Weibo will definitely operate independently in the future.

Today, the Penguin Group has actually started to make huge profits.

Who would have thought of this?

Therefore, in Hua Teng's eyes, his boss is simply a god-like existence. He will keep in mind what the boss says and strictly follow it in future operations and development.

Lei Jun is in charge of the e-commerce sector.

Nowadays, the development of B2B e-commerce websites is also good. It has been widely developed all over the world and has become an internationally renowned procurement and wholesale website.

Of course, the e-commerce sector has not yet achieved profitability.

This also made Lei Jun feel a little anxious.

He is strong-willed by nature and unwilling to fall behind others.

At the same time, he was also worried that Zhang Zhipeng would be dissatisfied with him.

During the conversation, Lei Jun expressed his determination to Zhang Zhipeng: "Boss, I promise that in the first year of the new millennium, I will make Ali.com International profitable! We have also thought of many ways to make a profit..."

Zhang Zhipeng smiled faintly and said, "Don't be too eager to pursue profits."

"If we are eager to pursue profits, I am afraid that our partners on the platform will question us."

"In addition, e-commerce is actually the most profitable Internet model."

"Don't be too greedy. Making a reasonable profit is enough."

"We should not harm our partners in pursuit of high profits. We should show our kindness."

In its previous life, during its heyday, Ali occupied 80% of the e-commerce market share.

Five years later, it dropped sharply to below 60 percent.

In the end what happened?
Mainly because they have forgotten their original intention.

Lei Bushi listened to Zhang Zhipeng's teachings. He nodded repeatedly and said, "Boss, I will remember your instructions."

"You said that we do Internet e-commerce, firstly to stimulate the economy and develop a new economic model; secondly, for the greater good of the country!"

“That’s my principle, too.”

Zhang Zhipeng nodded and said, "Yes! I also hope that everyone will remember this."

"Now, the number of Internet users in China has grown to nearly 4 million, right?"

Hua Teng and Lei Bushi nodded almost at the same time.

Hua Teng said: "According to my understanding, more than 5 million households in China have already been connected to ADSL broadband Internet access."

"In addition, there are more than 73 Internet cafes."

"The total number of Internet users is over 3 million."

Lei Jun smiled and said: "Hua Teng is right, the Internet is basically about to be popularized in cities."

Zhang Zhipeng pondered for a moment, then smiled and said, "I think we should create an online department store for ordinary people!"

"We need to start cultivating the online shopping habits of ordinary people."

"Ordinary people's consumption is a huge market!"

Lei Jun was stunned for a moment, and asked tentatively: "Boss, are you talking about a model similar to Amazon?"

"If you want to run a department store, you'll have to invest a lot."

"We need to conduct centralized procurement, build large logistics warehouses in various places, and establish a logistics system."

"In this case, the initial investment will be astronomical."

Zhang Zhipeng smiled faintly and said, "Doing everything by yourself is indeed a bit of an investment with slow returns and great risks."

"The model you are talking about is B2C, which means it is completely self-operated."

"We can do C2C!"

"That is, we build a platform to allow small businesses across the country to come in and run their own business. All we provide is advertising display and promotion."

"This will allow us to spend less and form a wide range of goods in the shortest possible time."

Lei Bushi clapped his hands and nodded repeatedly, saying, "Boss, you said it very well."

“I think we can give it a try.”

"However, Chinese people are not used to buying things online yet. It will probably take a long time to cultivate this habit."

Zhang Zhipeng smiled faintly and said, "Haha! As long as it's cheap enough and the quality is good enough, there will be a large number of consumers willing to try online shopping!"

"The premise is: we must formulate a good management system, control the sellers on the platform, and give consumers a good shopping experience."

"If online shopping malls are cheap, have good service and are guaranteed, do you think consumers will gradually become addicted to online shopping?"

"Yes! There is another key point. We need to build an online payment system."

"This needs to be negotiated with the bank. If we can access the bank's payment system, then all the troubles will be solved."

Zhang Zhipeng's advice was like a revelation to Lei Jun.

He was already thinking about setting up an e-commerce platform for ordinary consumers.

Hua Teng and others came to pay New Year's greetings to Zhang Zhipeng during the Spring Festival. They had a deep conversation with Zhang Zhipeng and benefited a lot from it.

Some people may say, since e-commerce platforms will seriously damage the real business economy, why should we still do it?
But even if Zhang Zhipeng does not advocate doing it, someone else will do it next.

Amazon will soon come to China.

If we don’t seize the time to build our own domestic e-commerce platform, will Amazon just occupy the domestic market?
This is something Zhang Zhipeng would never allow to happen.

He wants to defeat the giants from other countries in the world fairly when competing with them.

……

May, the two founders of Google are discussing entering the Chinese market.

Page said solemnly: "We must hurry up and enter the Chinese market."

"Today, China is already the world's largest Internet market."

"Chinese Internet companies are also accelerating their overseas expansion."

“The competition is really tough.”

"If we can't gain a leading edge in China, then we can forget about becoming a truly world-class company."

Brin said: "Qiandu search in China is developing very well and has become a national-level software."

"It's still a bit late for us to enter now."

"I am a little worried now. What if I invest a lot of money but cannot get a large enough market share?"

Page said: "Although China is now strong enough and its technology is advanced enough, they have a serious flaw."

Brin was a little confused: "What is that?"

Page said: "There was a large number of people in their country who were friendly to Amei and worshipped Xifang in the 80s and early 90s."

"Once a person's mindset is formed, it is very difficult to change it."

"According to rough estimates by some researchers, the number of this group of people is at least 200 to 300 million."

"Moreover, most of these people are elites who hold the power to speak out in public opinion and have good spending power. They are the main body of Internet users."

"So, if we enter the Chinese market, we will definitely get strong support from this group of people!"

"As long as we do it quickly, we will have a chance to completely defeat Qiandu Search!"

Brin thought Page had a point.

He agreed to Google's plan to enter China.

In fact, Google has now become international.

It has already taken over the entire search engine market in Europe.

Of course, now Qiandu Search is also expanding in Europe. Qiandu Search has also been integrated with Huaxing Computer, and the default search engine of Huaxing Computer's built-in browser is Qiandu Search.

But even so, Google now has a greater advantage in Europe, the continent with the highest concentration of developed countries.

Google's market share in Europe now exceeds 60 percent.

Qiandu searches only account for more than 30 percent.

Google now has an overwhelming advantage in Aramco and the entire West.

However, Baidu Search has a considerable advantage in the southern countries as a whole.

Google and Qiandu Search became direct competitors.

The competition between the two sides is quite fierce.

While Google is planning to enter into China, other large Internet companies in the United States and the United States are actually doing the same thing.

For example, Yahoo and Amazon.

Yahoo is still the largest portal in the world today.

It now has branches in at least seventy or eighty countries around the world.

It has the greatest influence on foot basins in European countries and has a very large number of users.

To build Yahoo China is Yahoo’s biggest wish.

Because no one wants to give up such a large unified market with a population of more than one billion.

Yang Zhiyuan has already sent out a preparatory team.

Originally, Yang Zhiyuan thought there would be some difficulties and obstacles.

However, all the procedures went smoothly.

Yahoo China is expected to be online on the ninth day of March in the new millennium.

Amazon is also planning to build an online mall in China.

It started building its Chinese website in August last year.

But because it adopts the B2C model, the progress is relatively slow.

……

In fact, there are already several portal websites in China.

For example, Xinlang, Shouhu, Wangde, etc.

These sites were actually a bit of a copycat of Yahoo at the beginning.

The so-called portal is a one-stop shop that does everything.

We do everything from news, forums, classified information, chat, etc.

Internet users can meet all their needs by just looking at one site.

By the new millennium, competition among China's portal websites had become fierce.

At this time, the Yahoo China website went online in early March 2000.

At the beginning of the launch, Yang Zhiyuan was full of confidence. He felt that with the reputation of the world's largest portal website, he would be able to quickly capture the vast majority of the market share of China's portal websites after launching in China.

In order to become famous overnight and attract Chinese netizens to browse and use Yahoo, he also placed a large number of advertisements on the 7 o'clock news during the most prime time of China Central Television.

The theme of the advertisement is: Yahoo, the portal with the largest number of users in the world, is now launched in China! A one-stop view of the world's affairs!
They then contacted Penguin Company and made Penguin pop-up ads, so that they could find all the Internet users in China to come and use the Yahoo website.

When people from Yahoo approached Penguin hoping to place pop-up ads, Huateng hesitated.

Because, if we accept Yahoo's advertising, wouldn't that help Yahoo quickly open up the Chinese market?

For this purpose, he also consulted Zhang Zhipeng specifically.

Zhang Zhipeng said: "If someone gives you money, why don't you accept it?"

Hua Teng said: "Boss, didn't you say that we should not forget the greater good for the sake of small gains?"

"We cannot help our competitors occupy our market just for a little bit of profit."

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "If domestic Internet companies can't even deal with competitors who come to challenge them, how can they go global and stand on top of the world?"

"In any industry, only sufficient competition can motivate enterprises to develop rapidly!"

“So, don’t be afraid of competition!”

"Don't be fooled by Yahoo's aggressiveness. In fact, it can't cause any trouble at all."

"It may thrive for a short period of time, but in the long run, it will eventually fade away!"

“We must have confidence in our domestic enterprises!”

"Since we were able to challenge them and defeat them, it already proves that they are really no match for us!"

Hua Teng smiled and said, "I see. Boss, now that you've said that, I realize that my vision is still small compared to yours."

Yahoo's pop-up ads on Penguin QQ began to be released as scheduled.

Before this, Yahoo China website had naturally already been launched.

Its functional sections are actually no different from those of domestic portals.

Neither the forum nor the chat room is connected to their main site on Amei.

After the Penguin pop-up ads were released, the effect was much better than that of the 7 o'clock news.

On the first day, more than 9 million users visited their website.

This made Yahoo's CEO Yang Zhiyuan overjoyed, and he immediately ordered a press release to be issued in all important traditional media throughout China to announce Yahoo's victory.

Because Yang Zhiyuan has done a survey and found that among the three major portals in China, Xinlang.com, which has the largest traffic, has only more than 3 million IP user visits per day.

Doesn't that mean that Yahoo has just surpassed China's three major portals and become the number one portal in China as soon as it went online?

This is a major victory.

The next day, dozens of traditional print media and many television media in China released Yahoo’s press releases. Some media even exaggerated the news and praised Yahoo.

Unexpectedly, the next day, although the Penguin pop-up ads continued, the number of views from Yahoo's IP users dropped sharply, leaving only more than 3 million.

Seeing this data, Yang Zhiyuan was a little confused.

What's going on?

Isn’t the number of browsing users declining too fast?

It seems that many users just go in to take a look, then click the cross and leave.

A lot of people go in, but not that much is left for use.

What does this show?

This shows that the content of Yahoo China website cannot retain users.

The Penguin pop-up ads were only run for two days.

A lot of money was spent in the past two days, with advertising investment of up to 5 million per day, which means million in two days.

The blow on the second day made Yang Zhiyuan feel that something was wrong.

He thought, while the ads were running, the number of views of Te Miao users was dropping drastically, so what would happen if the ads were stopped tomorrow?

The answer came quickly.

On the third day, Yahoo's browsing user numbers continued to decline sharply.

There are only 1600 million users left...

When Yang Zhiyuan saw the data, he was completely dumbfounded.

It seems that Yahoo's title as the world's number one portal is not that useful.

It seems that Ami's status in the eyes of the Chinese people has also declined seriously.

If it were still the early 90s, the Chinese people were looking up to and worshipping Amy.

Then everything Amei has will be warmly welcomed as soon as it comes in.

Yahoo's cold reception can only mean one thing: Aramco World's status has declined seriously.

Of course, this is enough to show that China's Internet companies are already strong enough and are no worse than America's Internet giants.

Yang Zhiyuan was full of enthusiasm and originally wanted to occupy China's portal website market in one fell swoop.

That’s a billion-dollar supermarket!

If Yahoo can occupy it, how much profit will it generate in the future?

How much would Yahoo's stock soar?

What a pity! All the good expectations turned into a pipe dream.

Yahoo's much-hyped success turned out to be a slap in the face.

When Yahoo launched its website in China with great fanfare, Google was actually watching closely.

They also want to see what kind of results Yahoo will get.

They didn't have to wait long.

Just over ten days later, Yahoo's daily active browsing users dropped below 800 million, leaving only more than million.

When Page saw the result, he sighed and felt a little panicked.

Why? Because this is a damn good example for Google!
Page sighed and said, "I really didn't expect Yahoo to start off well but end badly."

Brin also said with a serious expression: "I can only say that Yahoo's content is nothing new!"

"Compared with other portals in China, Yahoo has no unique features, so it is looked down upon."

"Also, do you know that all portal websites in China are not doing well..."

PS: Here is today’s update. I wish you all a good holiday with good food, drinks and fun.

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