My 1999

Everything went as Xu Liang expected.

In less than a day, 30 programmers completed the ‘Website Directory’, and spent the rest of the time building a database of links to various websites.

Different links are classified according to finance, sports, leisure, games, music, etc.

In the middle are links to some commonly used websites. Of course, users can also choose according to their own usage habits.

If you scroll all the way down, you'll see some news links.

After the website is finalized, formal promotion begins.

However, there will be no need for so many programmers at this time, but people cannot be idle.

Xu Liang divided the thirty programmers into two groups.

The first group of ten people continued to maintain and upgrade the ‘Website Directory’ and fill in website links; they also continued to recruit people to develop ‘Internet Cafe Management Software’.

But the second group is the focus.

"Old Shen, remember when we met, I promised you to do the search. Now is the time."

Shen Weiguo suddenly became excited.

He originally planned to join Baidu like his senior brother Liu Jianguo.

But after Xu Liang found him through a headhunter and promised to invest at least 10 million in the next year to develop a search engine, he was moved by Xu Liang's sincerity and came to Hongmeng Company.

"The remaining twenty programmers in the technical department will form the search engine development department to develop our own search engine." Xu Liang said seriously.

Among the three Internet BAT giants in the PC era, Baidu was the last to be established.

It was only established in January 2000 at the Peking University Resource Hotel. In May this year, it developed its first Chinese search engine. In June, I got my first customer, Silicon Valley Dynamics.

Xu Liang has been paying attention to the development of Baidu. Now their pages are still very cumbersome, and their business content is mainly to provide on-site search for major websites.

It would have to wait until September 2001 before it would be changed to the simple search box that became familiar later.

Therefore, among the three giants, it is the easiest to be replaced.

In contrast, Tencent, founded in 1998, has accumulated millions of users and initially built its own moat; Alibaba, founded in 1999, has become a leader in B2B and has rich experience in Internet e-commerce operations.

Only Baidu is still an unknown player who has just launched its own search engine.

Of course, Xu Liang cannot guarantee that his search plan will be successful.

But he already has a new dream, has Tencent's equity, and has built a solid life cushion.

Even if the competition with Baidu fails in the end, as long as he holds on to New Dream and Tencent, he will still be a super rich man with a net worth of billions of dollars in ten years.

In this case, there is nothing to be afraid of.

"Mr. Xu, I will build the search engine as soon as possible." Shen Weiguo said excitedly.

"I trust you."

After a pause.

"I have already said hello to Lao Xie, he will continue to recruit people for you, front-end, back-end, web design, as long as you need it, no matter the cost, we will recruit people."

Feeling Xu Liang's determination, Shen Weiguo also felt pressure.

Xu Liang continued: "Old Shen, if we don't have enough staff, we can add more. I'm not afraid of spending money, but you have to be careful about recruiting people. Every technician who enters Hongmeng must have real talent and practical knowledge. It's better to lack than to waste."

"clear."

“Another point, regarding the development of search engines, I don’t expect the first-generation product to be perfect, just that it can be used.

Our strategy is to run quickly in small steps, a new version every one or two months, and iterate quickly until we defeat all opponents. "

This strategy was invented by Tencent. Relying on this method, Tencent's technology is getting better and better, sweeping all opponents including MSN, and dominating the Internet community track.

After the rise of Tencent, this method was imitated by almost all Internet entrepreneurs.

"Also, improve the back-end department as soon as possible, understand user feedback in a timely manner, and continuously improve our search structure and accuracy."

Shen Weiguo nodded.

He hesitated.

"Boss, can we first build a search engine based on robots?"

After thinking about it for a moment, Xu Liang shook his head.

“If we don’t make something that is already outdated, it would be a waste of energy.”

From the emergence of search engines to the present, it can be roughly divided into two generations.

The first generation is machine search.

In the early days of the Internet, when there was less information and not many web pages, this type of keyword-based search engine was relatively practical. Currently popular domestic search engines such as Tianwang, Youyou, and Open-Find are all of this type of search.

However, with the explosive growth of Internet information, machine search speed is slow, the quantity is small, and too much useless information is returned. The shortcomings of users needing to spend energy to re-screen are gradually exposed.

Many websites even pile up keywords repeatedly for publicity in order to achieve the purpose of being quickly searched.

In order to solve the above problems, the second generation search engine appeared.

Representing the second generation of search engine technology is Lao Li's hyperlink analysis patent.

Hyperlink analysis technology no longer simply looks at keywords, but determines your ranking in search engines based on the number of times others quote your website content.

The more citations, the higher the ranking.

The most popular search engine technology in the world now is the second generation.

Of course, the second-generation technology is not perfect. In order to ensure the accuracy of search as much as possible, Google has also established a huge database classified according to different keywords.

At the same time, the indexing capabilities and scope of crawlers are also constantly improving.

This is a long-term process.

"I understand, I will come up with a mature second-generation engine as soon as possible."

"When that day comes, I will celebrate your success in person."

Shen Weiguo nodded, closed his notebook, and walked out resolutely.

From the moment Hongmeng was established, it was like clockwork.

Recruit people, hire people, still hire people.

Xu Liang left the remaining funds in the New Dream and Hanhua accounts, leaving two million for emergencies, and took the rest to Hongmeng.

A full seven million Chinese coins will serve as the first phase of development funds.

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Happy Internet Cafe.

A relatively large Internet cafe near Chaoyangmen in the DC District of Beijing.

There are more than a hundred machines.

Although it was not a weekend and it was still morning, half of the seats in the Internet cafe were occupied.

Zhang Xiao opened the door and walked in.

Looking around, half were playing 'Red Alert' and the other half were playing 'Counter-Strike'.

The sound of gunfire and explosions filled the Internet cafe.

From time to time, a few curse words could be heard in the dirty air.

Behind the large monitors are focused and young faces.

Walk up to the bar.

A middle-aged man wearing a black waistcoat stood up.

"How long do you want to play?"

"One hour."

"Three dollars."

With the increasing number of Internet cafes and the spread of fiber optics, Internet access fees have become cheaper.

After paying three yuan, I took the password and found a machine and sat down.

Open the host computer's CD-ROM drive, take out the company-issued CD-ROM from the bag, and skillfully copy the program to the computer desktop.

Thanks to book friend "iamok" for the 100 starting coin reward, thank you very much!