Rebirth of the Wild Age

"Is this Silicon Valley?" Ding Ming, with a pilgrimage mentality, sat in a taxi and looked at the distant buildings.

"This is Silicon Valley, a place full of miracles." Zhang Chaoyang was quite emotional. He had been to Silicon Valley several times before, half of which was to seek venture capital.

Zhang Chaoyang went abroad very smoothly, after all, he had lived in the United States for several years. Ding Ming is an employee of China Science and Technology. He took a business visa to go abroad. Sohu's company is too small and the visa officer will not give a good face.

"Xiao, do you think a search engine is really worth several million dollars?" Zhang Chaoyang was deeply suspicious.

Zhang Chaoyang's Internet thinking is similar to that of most practitioners at this time. He wants to build a portal website to accumulate traffic and refinance to go public. The purpose of his search engine is the same as that of Lifang Sina, NetEase and foreign companies. It is just a tool to attract users-the search engine can be used, and it does not need to be too smart, otherwise it may lose portal users.

Zhang Chaoyang thinks it is feasible to spend hundreds of thousands of RMB to buy search technology. But if you spend millions of dollars on search technology, that's a satiated one!

Ding Ming is from the perspective of Internet users. He said: "If we have the most intelligent and advanced search engine, it will definitely attract netizens. When they go online, they will inevitably conduct content searches on our website. Isn't the traffic going up so fast?"

Ding Ming also didn't realize the true value of search engines, but only regarded it as an auxiliary tool to increase website traffic.

Zhang Chaoyang said: "Have you ever thought about it. If our search engine is too good to use, and netizens find content and websites they like, they may go to other websites. This does not mean that we put our users , Take the initiative to push to the competitor's side?"

Ding Ming said: "But our search engine is easy to use, and users will still come back to search for content."

"Then what portal website do we have? Let's just do a search website!" Zhang Chaoyang said in a bad mood.

"Yes, you can do a special search website." Ding Ming's eyes lit up.

Zhang Chaoyang said: "The problem is that specialized search sites are not of much value. Although they make their fortunes on search engines, they sell content. Their main business is portal websites. This is the most successful Internet model and the most feasible. The Internet model that focuses on search engines will lead to a dead end."

Ding Ming was silent, because he didn't know how to refute.

These years, it is hard to make a lot of money from doing search engines, and it is difficult to attract large investments.

When Google was booming in history, it was shocked and made everyone feel unbelievable.

That night, Zhang Chaoyang and Ding Mingzong Hotel, Joscott Hasen met at a coffee shop near Stanford the next day.

Three technical houses in short pants walked out of the campus. They were the three founders of Google: Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Scott Hasson.

"Can Chinese Internet companies come up with $3 million?" Larry was deeply skeptical.

Scott smiled and said, "Who knows? Anyway, I don't suffer from seeing each other."

Sergey said: "I don't think you need to sell pagerank. This is the most advanced search algorithm in the world. US$3 million is really a shame."

"$3 million is a big profit," Scott said. "On the Silicon Valley side, no one is willing to bid $1.6 million."

Larry frowned and said, "I don't think it should be sold either. Who can tell about the Internet? Maybe, as long as we wait another year, the pagerank algorithm is worth 10 million US dollars."

Scott laughed: "Then try to talk about authorization."

Larry and Sergey were still relatively simple students at this time, and they didn't know any big bosses. All business negotiations were made by Scott. Although Scott didn't get any shares and was little known, the industry referred to him as "the third founder of Google."

These three guys are very ideal, their goal is to use the Internet technology dog, and then use the money to build a machine-space elevator.

Simply put, it is to tie a "rope" to the earth's orbit. This "rope" stays relatively unchanged with the movement of the earth, so people can follow the "rope" to space.

Well, it's pure nonsense.

Who hasn't had the fantasies of student days yet.

Unlike Bill Gates’ backgrounds, both Larry and Sergey come from ordinary families, and their parents are high-ranking intellectuals-Larry’s family are all left-wingers and are keen on the civil rights movement, while Sergey’s family are Soviet immigrants. .

Entering the restaurant, Larry pointed to the corner and said, "There are two Asian faces over there, are they?"

"Perhaps, go and ask," Scott walked over and smiled. "Excuse me, are the two Mr. Zhang and Dusheng from China?"

"Yes, hello!" Zhang Chaoyang and Ding Ming immediately got up and shook hands.

Each introduced each other, and everyone soon started talking.

Ding Ming said: "US$3 million is too expensive. We can bid at most US$1 million."

Larry said: "In fact, I don't want to sell $3 million. Let's talk about licensing."

"Since you don't want to sell, then don't talk about it," Zhang Chaoyang waited for this sentence. He said, "I came to the United States this time mainly to discuss financing. Two American companies are willing to invest in Sohu."

Scott quickly eased the atmosphere: "Don't worry, everyone, business negotiations, take your time, bargaining is normal."

Ding Ming said: "I only buy the pagerank algorithm, not the backrub search engine."

Sergey was a little unhappy, because the pagerank algorithm was Larry alone, and he was only involved in the research and development of the backrub search engine. Immediately he turned his face and said, "It seems that the two gentlemen are not sincere.

"Yes, don't talk about it." Larry was also very loyal to his buddies and didn't want to eat alone.

Scott immediately stopped, took out his laptop and said: "Two Chinese gentlemen, backrub is the best search engine in the world, we might as well try it first."

Zhang Chaoyang randomly entered a keyword and checked the results carefully, and found that the top 20 content was very satisfactory.

Ding Ming also tried it, and the same was true.

The two looked at each other and were shocked. Sohu also developed an "intelligent search engine" at the end of last year, but it lacks a reasonable algorithm, but it's better than the traditional ones~www.readwn.com~ Zhang Chaoyang swipes on the desktop casually, seeming to think, but actually writing A Chinese character-buy!

The search engine is not good, but such a useful search engine will inevitably achieve great success. It would be a pity to miss it.

Ding Ming asked: "Why is the pagerank algorithm not patented?"

"Uh, applying." Larry replied.

"Then we will wait for the patent application to be completed before discussing it." Ding Ming said.

Shenxian knows when the application will be successful. Scott said: "Any patent does not prevent us from cooperating. We can talk about the general authorization of search engines or the exclusive authorization of China."

Ding Ming said: "We don't want search engines, we only need search algorithms!"

"Sorry, algorithms are not for sale." Larry said angrily.

Scott said, "Perhaps the two gentlemen can go back and think about it."

"Of course, we will consider it." Zhang Chaoyang said.

The first negotiation broke up unhappy.

When he returned to the hotel, Ding Ming immediately called Song Weiyang overseas to explain the situation in detail.

Song Weiyang asked: "Are they really not selling? Or are they going to be up for sale?"

Ding Ming said: "Their attitude is very firm. It seems that they are really not going to sell algorithms. They only intend to talk about the authorization and cooperation of search engines."

Song Weiyang thought for a while and said: "In this way, one million US dollars will permanently buy out the exclusive Chinese authorization of the pagerank algorithm. In the future, as long as the search engine using the pagerank algorithm is used, it will not be authorized to other Chinese websites."

"This seems feasible. Americans don't pay much attention to the Chinese market." Ding Ming said.

"Also, talk to those young people again and ask them if they are willing to start a search engine company. I can provide them with funds." Song Weiyang said.

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