Top of the Great Era

Chapter 216 The Age of Search

The leader's speech is over, and it is the entrepreneur's speech.

The first person to take the stage was Mr. Li from Baidu, who was really personable and energetic.Now is the era of search, as the controller of the world's largest Chinese search engine, he is enough to stand out from the crowd.

He said: "Baidu ignited the search boom in the domestic Internet market. Stimulated by Baidu, Google, which has made little achievements in the domestic market, also made up its mind to redefine the domestic market. In addition, Microsoft has also increased its investment in search and established a search technology center in China. In addition, we have also heard rumors in the market that Alibaba is incorporating Yahoo China, and the most fundamental reason is search.”

He also mentioned that the domestic search engine market will reach 19.4 billion yuan this year, and it is expected that the search engine market will maintain a high annual growth rate of 70% in the next three years. In 2007, the market size will reach 56 billion yuan.

In addition to search, games, e-commerce, online advertising, instant messaging and e-mail are five other mature Internet application modes.

The most promising one is e-commerce.

At the beginning of this year, under the impetus of President Tang Jun, Shanda started to engage in e-commerce business.However, Shanda is in the business of making games and does not have a decent website... So it simply launched a hostile takeover of Sina, the largest portal in China.

Sina immediately launched a poison pill plan to fight back, and Shanda's capital chain was broken...

But Tang Jun was already prepared.

At that time, Yahoo lost confidence in Yahoo China's business and prepared 10 billion US dollars, intending to hit the Chinese market heavily.At that time, there were two choices, one was Shanda and the other was Ali.

There are more Shanda than Ali Niu.

And Tang Jun, who has a strong relationship in the United States, matched the bridge... In March, the cooperation was completed in one shot.

Yahoo will invest in Shanda to help Shanda acquire Sina.com, and then rely on Sina's portal traffic to launch the Sina Mall and Yipai.com plans.It's a pity that at the last moment of signing, Shanda's richest man Chen repented. He was unwilling to sell so many shares to Yahoo.

Alima didn't care, and quickly attacked and got involved with Yahoo.Now, the internal information has come out and the negotiation has been reached. The reason why it has not been made public is because the two parties are still negotiating on Ali's acquisition of Yahoo China.

Therefore, Mr. Guo from the e-commerce platform Huicong.com was the second to take the stage.

Huicong.com in this era is really like a thunderbolt, and it has the honorific title of "Huicong in the north and Ali in the south".Mr. Guo's tone is bigger than that of Mr. Ma. He came to the stage arrogantly, opened his mouth about globalization, and kept his mouth shut about the new era.

However, this guy is also bragging.

Not to mention the bombardment of Ali every day, even entrepreneurs like Lenovo Liu and Huawei CEO Ren are often satirized.

But in fact, in the B2B e-commerce market, HC's market share is only one-tenth of that of Alibaba.However, Huicong's business is large-scale building materials, and the profit is about the same.

The domestic Internet market in 2005 was really booming.

However, there is always an easy way.

The rest session was replaced by an auditorium.

Snacks, fruit and red wine are served.

A big man came over from behind with red wine in his hand, and patted Zhou Buqi on the shoulder: "Xiao Zhou? Hehe, I heard we're going to be neighbors?"

Zhou Buqi looked back.

Ho!
Sohu's Zhang Chaoyang!

"Mr. Zhang, it's a pleasure to meet you!" Zhou Buqi quickly bowed, showing the respect of a younger generation to the seniors in the industry.

"Hey, don't be polite to me. We don't like this in the Internet circle. You can just call me Charles." Zhang Chaoyang waved his hand, and then said with a smile: "The Xiaonei network is running well, how much is the monthly life?"

Zhou Buqi was very honest and said modestly: "Not much, around 3000 million."

Zhang Chaoyang held back for a moment, feeling his chest being hit hard.

Chinaren, a subsidiary of Sohu, has more than 1700 million registered users, but now they are all zombie users, with only more than 800 million monthly active users.

"Okay, how about it? Do you want to merge with Chinaren? You come here, and you will be the senior vice president directly."

"I'm sorry, I don't have that intention at the moment."

Zhang Chaoyang smiled nonchalantly, "Well, young people, it's good to pursue a little bit. However, you can't just focus on work and ignore your body. In this way, I will hold a public welfare event in July, and I will call a few Beautiful women and entrepreneurs go to climb Qizi Peak together. By the way, there are also actresses, Gao Yuanyuan, you know?"

"Climbing?"

"Well, I named this event, the '2005 Sogou Beauty and the Beast' mountaineering team, and there will be one every year in the future."

Ok.

After this big brother Zhang has a successful career, he has been a little bit idle. He travels around the mountains and rivers and plays with flowers every day. Can Sohu not fall? Chinaren does not update once every six months, and the user experience is extremely poor. Can it be overtaken by Xiaonei.com?

Zhou Buqi shook his head hastily, and politely declined: "Running is fine, mountain climbing is fine, it must be professionally trained."

Zhang Chaoyang said disapprovingly: "It's okay, the mountain is not high, it's only about 6000 meters high. Many film and television stars are going together, and Wang Shi from Vanke is also going."

Zhou Buqi said seriously: "Charles, I don't want to have too many interactions with people in the film and television industry."

Zhang Chaoyang was slightly taken aback.

Men are successful and famous, don't they all like to hook up with female celebrities?
He looked suspicious and didn't believe it at all.

Zhou Buqi blinked, lowered his voice, and said with a smile: "Charles, you have also seen that I am so handsome and young... If I go, won't I steal the limelight from you and Mr. Wang?"

Zhang Chaoyang laughed out loud.

He's a sweetheart.

However, with such idlers, it is really impossible to make any progress.

Fortunately, soon, busy people came.

It was Chen Yongzheng, the president of Microsoft China, who raised his glass: "Let's talk?"

"Okay."

Zhou Buqi smiled.

After taking his seat, Chen Yongzheng said bluntly: "To be honest, MSN has never given up on competing with QQ. We are in the middle of a... It can be called a revolution. We will join hands with nine major websites including Taobao, Mopu, CCID, and Lianzhong World. With the advertising sharing model, with the help of their traffic import, attract more users for MSN."

Zhou Buqi suddenly remembered the news he read on the Internet a while ago, and lost his voice: "Anti-QQ Alliance?"

Chen Yongzheng waved his hand, but he was full of arrogance, "The anti-QQ alliance is just an argument put forward by QQ people to put money on their faces."

Zhou Buqi was speechless.

Dude, where did you get the courage?
Do you really think that relying on Microsoft is invincible?

Chen Yongzheng was full of confidence, and said calmly: "In the current market, there are indeed more QQ users, but this is determined by the age and structure of the user group. People with low age, low education, and low income all like to use QQ. It’s just that netizens in China are very young. When they grow up, they will slowly move to MSN.”

Zhou Buqi suppressed a smile, pretending to be deep: "I'm afraid that once the user habit is formed, it will be difficult to change."

Chen Yongzheng nodded deeply, "You're right, so next, MSN will launch a series of decisions to attract users. To be honest, MSN is negotiating with Yahoo! This cooperation has been achieved, and we will promote more instant messaging software in the future, so that all instant messaging users around the world can be connected."

Zhou Buqi was in awe.

Sure enough, it's a big company. It's so bright when it makes a move. It's really big!
Connecting instant messaging software all over the world, no matter you use MSN, Gtalk, or Yahoo Messenger, different platforms can exchange messages with each other... This definitely brings great convenience to users.

It is probably only a big company like Microsoft, an IT giant with global influence, who is not very thorough in the emerging Internet market, will have this kind of thinking.

"With all due respect, even if MSN and Yahoo Messenger are connected, it will be difficult to compete with QQ in China."

"You can rest assured that Microsoft will mobilize all resources as much as possible."

Chen Yongzheng said with a serious expression.

The meaning is very clear, it is to invite Xiaonei to join this so-called "anti-QQ alliance".

Zhou Buqi remained calm and asked, "What benefits can I get here?"

Chen Yongzheng said: "I can make the decision. MSN users in China can connect with your friend network, just like you said."

"Not enough." Zhou Buqi shook his head and sighed, "That's QQ! You can see the current momentum of QQ, in case I offend them, take advantage of QQ's super drainage ability, and my friends What about online competition? You’ve also seen that once QQzone came out, BlogChina’s popularity immediately faded away.”

Chen Yongzheng said with a smile: "As I said, there is also advertising revenue. MSN's domestic advertising revenue is 7000 million yuan, and the revenue will be distributed according to the drainage ratio of these cooperative websites."

Zhou Buqi was very helpless, "President Chen, you underestimate me, don't you? Even if I can get 10%, it's only 700 million. To be honest, Xiaonei's advertising revenue this year... will not be as high as that of MSN. How much lower."

Chen Yongzheng looked calm, restrained his smile, and said lightly: "Then what do you think? You have to understand that if the cooperation between MSN and Yahoo Messenger is reached, the nearly a hundred domestic instant messaging tools will also actively seek cooperation and interconnection. This is a winning game! The cooperation between Microsoft and Xiaonei is not about instant messaging, but about search.”

Obviously, after receiving strong support from the headquarters, he was full of confidence in defeating QQ.

Zhou Buqi smiled, not in a hurry: "I'll think about it."

Whether it is Friends.com or Xiaonei.com, there is no urgent need for the search module, only some simple on-site searches are needed, without too much technical difficulty, and the codes are all borrowed from Douban's on-site search.

Instead, Microsoft is in a hurry.

From the United States to China, Microsoft and Google are at war.

The sooner the better.

Only third parties can benefit.

(End of this chapter)