Rebirth of the Wild Age

Ding Ming recruited 5 programmers, and everyone didn't know much about search engines, so he started with the database. Regardless of the generations of search engines, they all need to have their own databases. The difference is that the algorithms are becoming more and more "smart".

While Ding Ming was in charge of the search engine research and development team, he found himself somewhat marginalized. Zhang Chaoyang arranged another assistant, although not as useful as Ding Ming, but at least he would not object to his decision.

Ding Ming called Song Weiyang and called Qu: "Brother Yang, what do you think Mr. Zhang thinks? Are you afraid that I will take his power?"

"It shouldn't be because of this," Song Weiyang said helplessly. "It's probably because of the search engine project. You made him feel unhappy. He's very assertive, and he thinks highly of himself, so he can't tolerate objections."

"Then what should we do?" Ding Ming said, "I don't want to have conflicts with him either."

Song Weiyang said: "You start the search engine project first. During the summer vacation, I will go to the capital to hold a shareholder meeting to formally determine the company's authority framework. At that time, he will be the general manager and you will be the vice president. In the future, each project of the company must be assigned a full-time person in charge. The general manager and vice president should try their best to decentralize their powers, and they must hold meetings to discuss and solve major problems. It is very unscientific for Zhang Chaoyang to grasp everything, and it is also harmful to the company. development does more harm than good."

Ding Ming said: "This way the contradiction will be even greater."

"Give it a try. If Zhang Chaoyang still doesn't know how to restrain himself, then I will consider changing the general manager." Song Weiyang said.

Ding Ming also said: "The search engine project has been working on the database, and there has been no breakthrough in the algorithm. I asked Pony and Leizi, and they said that the most practical search engine is infoseek (搜信), and the algorithm is relatively It is smarter and can exclude a lot of irrelevant content. I organized people to analyze infoseek’s algorithm, but this is a commercial secret, and I can’t figure it out at all.”

"Take your time," Song Weiyang suggested, "You can try to recruit an infoseek technical employee."

Ding Ming smiled wryly: "Those who cannot be dug out, the core engineers of Infoseek, their annual salary is more than the assets of our entire company."

Song Weiyang said: "Don't worry, stick to research and development, and I will pay for it."

Li Yanhong, the future founder of Baidu, is now one of the core engineers of Infoseek, and his personal assets far exceed those of Sohu at this stage.

Li Yanhong owns more than 700,000 stock options of the Dow Jones subsidiary, shares exchanged for it technology (real-time financial information system), and he has been on Wall Street for several years after graduation. He also has luxurious villas and famous cars in Silicon Valley. His wife Ma Dongmin is an American doctor who graduated from the junior class of the National People's Congress and also works in a high-tech company in Silicon Valley.

A young man who came from an ordinary family in a small Chinese city was like this before he was 30 years old. Even if he didn't start Baidu later, he could already be considered a successful person.

In fact, since 1995, Li Yanhong has returned to China every year to investigate the Internet market. He has always had the idea of ​​starting his own business, but his career in the United States has been so smooth that Robin Li couldn't give up, and he couldn't bear to give up everything and return to China to start anew.

If it weren’t for the fact that the executives at Infoseek were all short-sighted people who ignored the great prospects in the search field and insisted on transforming into a portal website, then there would be no such thing as Google, and most likely Robin Li would not have resigned and returned to China to found Baidu.

By the way, next summer's International World Wide Web Conference, Robin Li, as a top search engine expert, will be invited to attend and give a speech.

According to Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, it was at the World Wide Web Conference that the two founders of Google listened carefully to Li Yanhong's speech and asked Li Yanhong for advice on technical issues after the meeting. One month later, Google was established, but the pagerank patent was not approved by the US Patent Office until three years later, because this technology is similar to Robin Li's hyperlink analysis patent.

So some people say that Google borrowed or stole Li Yanhong's search technology when it was first established. In fact, it has a different focus. Google has further expanded and improved Li Yanhong's patents. The patent applied by Google is the more perfect part, which in turn is even better than Li Yanhong. Li Yanhong later caught up through the "Lightning Project".

Li Yanhong chose to return to China to found Baidu, one was angered by infoseek executives, the other was stimulated by Google, and the other was instigated by his wife Ma Dongmin.

Every time Li Yanhong had difficulty making a choice, his wife pushed behind him. Returning to China to start a business is like this, and Baidu’s bidding ranking is like this. This wife is indeed a child prodigy from the National People’s Congress Junior Class.

But Li Yanhong himself has all the qualities of success. He is just the opposite of Zhang Chaoyang. He believes in one thing and sticks to it to the end, and completely delegates power to the people below. In this way, employees can be trained and developed. As long as the general direction is good, the boss is strong if they do it right, and the employees have problems if they do something wrong.

Zhang Chaoyang, on the other hand, was reluctant to delegate power, and would take a detour when encountering difficulties, and it was difficult to persevere until the end. We do all kinds of projects, but we don’t go deep into any projects, and it’s hard for employees to give full play to their talents, and if there is any problem, the boss will have to take the blame.

Therefore, in the eyes of employees, Li Yanhong is unpredictable and difficult to deal with, but the company can give full play to his talents; while Zhang Chaoyang is easy to talk to, everyone respects and loves him, but the senior employees eventually ran away.

At the critical moment, Li Yanhong dared to challenge investors. During the Internet bubble, American investors did not agree to do bidding rankings. Li Yanhong directly lost his temper and scolded others. Those investors finally compromised: "We agree with your idea, not because it has a future, but because of your attitude."

And what about Zhang Chaoyang? When facing investors, he seeks perfection in all kinds of grievances and constantly makes concessions.

For Song Weiyang, a person like Zhang Chaoyang is easier to control, and it is enough to scold him when he is disobedient.

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When the time entered June, Sohu's webpage and chat room had amazing traffic, which actually attracted investors from Wall Street to take the initiative to contact them. The Yankee valued Sohu at US$3 million, which is about 26 million RMB, which means that Song Weiyang's investment has doubled several times a year.

Zhang Chaoyang planned to accept a financing of 2 million US dollars, but was directly rejected by Song Weiyang, and said: "If the money is not enough, I will pay it. I will use the normal financing method. What should I do with the shares!"

Zhang Chaoyang can only say: "Let's talk about it at the end of the year, the company's funds can still survive."

As for Ding Ming's search engine research and development team, they still found nothing and could only improve the database honestly. Until Li Yanhong's hyperlink analysis patent was approved by the US Patent Office in July, and the patent was published in September, Ding Ming finally realized: So it was done like this!

But even if the patent is disclosed, it does not mean that the core technology is laid out. Others can only see the scales and half claws from the patent documents. There is also the stemming technology mentioned in the patent document, which is only of great use in English hyperlink texts, and it can only be used for reference in Chinese.

Li Yanhong is a great man, and Ding Ming recruited them as shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and he honestly followed his technical direction to conduct research. This research lasted for several months. After a basic understanding, I began to study the actual application on Chinese websites.

As for Xifeng, the 101 plan has begun to close the network on a large scale, gradually withdrawing the signing rights of regional partners. Those regional partners must either become Xifeng’s neighborhood distributors or become Xifeng’s salespersons. There is no third choice.

The gangsters at Shenghai Railway Station wanted to resist, and even threatened to make Xifeng products disappear in the railway station area.

Xifeng didn't hesitate at all, and directly stopped the supply and started negotiations at the same time, these guys immediately succumbed. After all, harmony makes money. If there is money to be made, why bother to make such a fuss?

As a result, the company established by the gangsters was split into two. Part of it cooperates with Xifeng to establish a delivery station, covering the surrounding areas of the railway station, and let some younger brothers specialize in contracted terminal delivery personnel; part of it becomes a branch of Xifeng Shenghai Sales Branch, which is responsible for the business promotion of the railway station and surrounding areas .

In this way, the gangsters can manage their careers better and earn more money, but the financial and personnel management rights are all handed over to Xifeng.

The gangsters were very happy. They transformed themselves into the regional leaders of Xifeng Company. They had money and status, and they no longer needed to be precarious and frightened. To deal with the disobedient younger brother, just follow the rules, and there is nothing to lose face.

Even the gangsters handed over the illegal business at the train station to their confidants. When something happens, the younger brother will take the blame, and they will sit and take a commission, until one day when the younger brother betrays him, they finally go ashore completely.

Distributors of companies such as Jianlibao and Coca-Cola are constantly reporting gangsters to dominate the market. The police couldn't bear the pressure and couldn't find any evidence. They interviewed the gangsters several times, and finally they were so angry that they launched a comprehensive rectification operation, which caused heavy losses to the gangsters. The beverage market at Shenghai Railway Station finally became normal. Then there is the dominance of the Xifeng family.

In the next few years, two of these gangsters were imprisoned, one was killed by the enemy, and the rest were completely cleansed and resolutely refused to engage in illegal business. One of the gangsters even became the general manager of the Xifeng Shenghai sales branch. He was promoted entirely based on his solid performance.

Throughout the first half of the year, Soros has been stirring up wind and rain in Thailand, and Song Weiyang's Taurus Capital also drank a lot of soup.

Before the baht exploded completely, "Three-Body Problem" had already exploded on the Internet. Major domestic chat rooms and bbs stations reproduced it one after another, and some people even forwarded it to Huayuan.com in the United States.

(Two updates will be resumed tomorrow, and the chapters with fewer updates will be added slowly.). m.