My 1999

As soon as Wu Xifan left, Xie Wen opened the door and walked in.

"Mr. Xu, the Baidu matter is almost over. It's time for me to go to the United States. The matters there can't be delayed any longer, otherwise things will change later."

He originally planned to go to the United States a week ago to resolve the Excite acquisition issue, but before he even left, he was held back by the Baidu incident.

Now that the biggest crisis has passed, with Xu Liang in charge, there is basically no danger, and it is time for him to set off.

Xu Liang nodded, "Okay, you go ahead. If the Excite acquisition is resolved as soon as possible, we can develop the Japanese market as soon as possible."

Dong Dong….

There was a knock on the door.

Lu Hui opened the door and walked in.

"Mr. Xu, we just received news that Baidu has officially filed a lawsuit with the Haidian Intermediate Court, accusing us of illegal competition and disrupting market order."

"Has the court accepted it?" Xie Wen asked quickly.

"No news yet."

Xu Liang said with a smile: "Li Yanhong is at the end of her rope."

Xie Wen nodded. Bing’s free search policy has nothing to do with illegal competition.

"Mr. Xu, you should be careful. We may not be able to get rid of Baidu's dog-skin plaster for a while."

"I understand, but you don't need to worry about this matter. Go to the United States to resolve the Excite matter first."

Xie Wen agreed.

After Xie Wen left, Xu Liang returned to his office chair and sat down, looking at the content denouncing Hongmeng Company on the Sina website.

"Now that the limelight has passed, it's time to speak out. It's not my style to be slapped and not fight back."

——

"Yan Hong, are you sure this really works?"

Liu Jianguo asked.

Li Yanhong knew that there was almost no chance of the lawsuit succeeding.

"I'm not sure, but we must disrupt Hongmeng's development rhythm."

Liu Jianguo nodded, "What do IDG and Defengjie say?"

"What else can I say? I'm just asking how we can deal with it."

After a pause, Li Yanhong pondered for a moment and then said: "Old Liu, what do you think about us also building an independent search engine?"

Liu Jianguo immediately shook his head.

"No. Let alone the investment institutions that don't agree. Even if they agree, we don't have that much money."

Independent search engines will generate huge amounts of search data and traffic, which means they must continue to invest in servers, and $10 million will not last long.

This is also where Li Yanhong is worried.

"I think we should learn from Hongmeng and make games." Liu Jianguo said enviously.

Who can see the turnover of tens of millions in a month and not be envious?

Li Yanhong frowned. He didn't want to be distracted when the search was not started, but the current situation forced him to find a new way out. I'm afraid Baidu would be doomed.

"let me think again."

At this moment, Li Yanhong's cell phone rang.

"Mr. Li, please take a look at the home page of Bing Information."

After hearing the secretary's prompt, Li Yanhong quickly opened the Bing website.

Above the concise search box, in addition to consultation, encyclopedia, knowledge, and music, there is also a ‘game’ channel.

After clicking on ‘Consultation’, there are news contents one after another.

The top one is related to hundreds of poisons.

"I don't know what it's like to be a rotten rat, but I guess the chicks are still alive." Judgment Baidu's accusation must be unfair competition.

When she saw the title, anger showed on Li Yanhong's face.

The allusion to this poem by Li Shangyin comes from "Zhuangzi Autumn Waters", which is extremely ironic.

Zhuangzi's friend Huizi was appointed as the prime minister in the state of Liang. Zhuangzi left. Huizi was very afraid that Zhuangzi would replace him.

So Zhuangzi told him this story: The bird (the legendary bird similar to the phoenix, to which Zhuangzi compares himself) will not eat unless it is pure rice, and it will not drink from the sweet spring.

I would never envy the rotten rats (Bi Xiang) of the owl (harrier, bihuishi) as a delicacy.

In other words, Quanbo doesn't eat rat meat. If you like it, just keep it for yourself. Don't think that I will argue with you. Quanbao doesn't like it.

The content of this press release is similar.

I think Bing is an independent search engine and looks down on the corporate market.

You, Baidu, have been suspecting me of stealing your market all day long, and even sue me for being cunning. You just don’t know what to say.

"It's too arrogant, it's too presumptuous, sue them, you must sue them." Li Yanhong said angrily.

Is Li Yanhong a person who eats dead rat meat?

But compared to him, Liu Jianguo was not that angry.

It's just a war of words, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose.

What he cares about is the news revealed in Bing's press release.

"Yanhong, if Bing has no interest in the enterprise market, there is no need for us to make the relationship with them too tense."

The enterprise search market is the search service within the company.

For example, the search box of Qidian can search all books and authors within Qidian.

Alibaba's search box allows you to search for all listed products.

This is the enterprise search market.

It is also the mainstream business of global search engines.

The nature of search engine services for portal websites is also this.

It's just that the status of the portal website is too special, because of its powerful aggregation effect, high requirements for search engine technology, and it can strengthen the brand and exposure of the search engine.

So it gets more attention.

"Who knows if they are lying, and the portal is also an enterprise service, so they kicked us away?" Li Yanhong said angrily.

Liu Jianguo nodded, "I think we should send someone to contact Bing to see their true intentions."

Li Yanhong snorted angrily, turned and left.

Looking at his back, Liu Jianguo smiled.

After being together for such a long time, he also knew Li Yanhong's character.

As long as you don't object, you agree.

——

Xu Liang leaned over the desk and looked at the documents in his hands intently.

After Xie Wen went to the United States, all the company's affairs fell on him.

Taking the helm of a company with more than 900 formal employees is also a challenge to his management abilities.

Dong Dong….

"Come in."

He Guiyou, director of the marketing department, walked in.

"Mr. Xu."

"Is something wrong?"

"Bai Du wants to talk to us."

Xu Liang became interested, "After reading our press release, I still want to talk. It seems that Bai Du is very tolerable."

That manuscript was written by him.

In addition to irritating people, they also have the purpose of telling Baidu that they have no interest in the corporate market.

"Talk to them on behalf of the company. Just say that except for the portal, we will not provide free search services to other companies."

"clear."

"How is the formation of the Magic City Marketing Department going?"

"We have hired 39 people. Counting our original employees, we already have 83 people, which is enough to cope with the company's current business volume in South China."

"Where is Wuchang Company?"

"27 people have been recruited so far. They are mainly doing pre-job training. They will wait until they are familiar with keyword optimization and bidding ranking before they can take up the job."

Xu Liang nodded, "Pre-job training is necessary and can greatly improve our service quality. In addition, you are allowed to recruit 20% more personnel in advance."

Bing's PPC advertising is growing rapidly, and advertising alliances will follow.

Only by recruiting people in advance for pre-job training to cope with expansion can we be able to cope with growth more calmly and provide good corporate services.

"Understood. I will implement your request as soon as possible."

"Go ahead."

Xu Liang waved his hand.

After He Guiyou left, he packed up the documents on the table, turned around and left the office, and came to the payment department.

Not long after Hongmeng was established, the payment department was established.

It is easy to develop a payment software, but it is difficult to develop a secure enough payment software.

Hongmeng Pay has always existed as a built-in application for Internet cafe management software. The original plan to directly connect users and companies was postponed due to security concerns.

"Mr. Xu."

Seeing Xu Liang, Shang Zhengfeng hurriedly greeted him.

He is the director of Hongmeng Payment Department.

"I'll just take a look."

Xu Liang glanced across the office area.

The entire payment department currently has nearly thirty people, including UI, front-end and back-end.

Seeing the big boss, everyone was sitting upright and working hard.

Xu Liang smiled and didn't bother.

Go to the left.

"Is this your work station?"

Shang Zhengfeng nodded quickly.

Except for a pot of pothos and a water glass, the rest were all documents.

"Show me the Hongmeng Pay 2.0 version you developed."

Shang Zhengfeng nodded and quickly sat down to operate his computer.

"Mr. Xu, according to your request, our Hongmeng Pay version 2.0 supports phone number registration, and password retrieval through ID number and text message reply.

Security has been revolutionary improved compared to version 1.0. "

After opening his own payment page.

The UI design is very simple.

But not rough, but a simple beauty.

The entire page is divided into three columns: upper, middle and lower.

The top title bar.

In the middle is the payment column.

The most eye-catching one is ‘Balance’.

Then two buttons, transfer in and transfer out.

Regardless of transfer in or out, the bank card is linked.

Xu Liang couldn't help but sigh as he watched Shang Zhengfeng enter his bank card number bit by bit to transfer money from his bank account to Hongmeng Pay account.

These days, online payment is still in its primeval times, and it is very cumbersome to use.

"Develop a memory function for bank accounts. The user only needs to enter it once, and it will be remembered by the system. When he comes in next time, it will be displayed directly, eliminating the trouble of repeated entry."

This is actually to establish an individual data collection, involving personal privacy.

But it doesn’t matter, no one in the country cares.

Even abroad, Google and Facebook do the same thing, but they package it better.

"clear."

Shang Zhengfeng quickly wrote it down.

Demonstrate to Xu Liang, after transferring in and out functions.

Return to the homepage again.

Below the payment column is another content column.

There is currently only a single 'game payment' hanging on it.

After clicking, you can jump directly to the backend of Hongmeng Game Hall and freely choose which game to purchase points.

"Version 2.0 is good. After adding the memory function, we can launch it directly."

Shang Zhengfeng nodded excitedly. After working hard for so long, he finally saw the day to come forward.

"Also, contact the marketing department and talk to Beijing Mobile to see if you can move the phone bill payment online."

For Hongmeng Pay to develop, a single game payment is not enough.

Telephone charges, water, electricity and coal are all the focus of Hongmeng’s next strategy for the payment department.

"E-commerce?"

Xu Liang shook his head.

His plan for Hongmeng is pan-entertainment + search, and will not involve too much e-commerce.

Before the company develops, too many distractions are not a good thing.

"Don't worry, I will contact Mr. Fang immediately and negotiate with Beijing Mobile."

Xu Liang nodded.

"Work hard, I'm leaving first."

"Um."

After patting Shang Zhengfeng on the shoulder, Xu Liang turned and left.

After wandering around several other departments a few times, the day passed quickly.