The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

Chapter 1512 Someone wants to buy Facebook

The issue of 361 browser charges is indeed not a whim, it has already been planned.

When the 361 browser came out, in order to seize the market, there was no way to make such a profit, so it had to be put on hold temporarily.

The browser only relies on some advertisements and web games to make its revenue report look better. Otherwise, no matter how high the valuation of 361 is outside, when the company internally reads the financial report at the end of the year, the executives of various money-losing companies will feel uncomfortable, right?

So at the beginning of 361's establishment, although it planned to be anti-virus software, security guards and browsers, the best thing to do at the beginning of its establishment was web games, because the entire 361 department pointed to this to issue year-end awards.

Now that web games have been assigned to Rising Sun Technology's game department, 361 only has advertising revenue, so it is natural to develop other sources of income.

Such a homepage link charge naturally becomes the first choice. After all, the average daily page views of the 361 browser now exceeds 100 million. If this is placed on some portal websites, the advertising fee will skyrocket.

However, in order to ensure its own quality and reputation, 361 dare not accept random advertisements. At the same time, the announcement page does not give much, so it cannot affect the user experience, right?

Therefore, the income from this advertising fee is also limited, so it is imminent to collect advertising fees from the major portal websites and various game companies that are listed on the homepage.

And in order to collect advertising fees this time, 361 even removed the link of the current popular Fried Chicken Baidu from the homepage of the website.

Remove all kinds of links on the homepage, the most stressful is not those portals with a lot of page views, because if netizens simply want to read the news, there will be news push on the 361 browser.

If you don't want to watch these real-time news, but want to watch official news, the website links of major official media are placed on the top of the homepage, whether it is political news, military news, sports news, or financial news, you can choose.

And the news reported by these official media is more professional and formal than those reported by portal websites.

So removing the links to these portal websites that seem to be rich and powerful at present, in fact, the biggest pressure is not 361, but these websites themselves.

Because anyone with a discerning eye can see that the era of portal websites has passed, and now is the era of traffic. And the 361 browser occupies the entrance of the traffic, and the peak of idle traffic, the portal website is getting worse day by day.

Now, except for old netizens who are used to going to portal websites every day when surfing the Internet, new netizens can only glance at the news pushed by 361 at most.

Then I started playing games directly, and no longer contributed traffic to the portal website, which was one of the main factors that the portal website began to decline.

Therefore, compared with these portal websites, Baidu is the one that makes 361 feel the most pressure. Because of some domestic Internet barriers, Baidu is now the only one in China.

Netizens want to know what information, instead of looking for it in the 361 browser or the portal website, but directly search it on Baidu.

For example, when Weibo created various registered user records before, although the 361 page also had related push news. But there are still many netizens who use Baidu to search for topics such as 'registered users of Weibo today', 'whether XX celebrity has opened Weibo', 'XX officially opened Weibo' and so on.

For another example, if you want to watch a movie on the Internet, instead of going to Youku, or looking for it in the 361 movie column, you can click on the name of the movie on Baidu to watch it.

Shopping on Taobao is not to search for items on Taobao, but to directly search for what you want on Baidu, get the link and then buy something.

Before the notorious "bidding ranking" did not have a stinky street, Baidu still had a high degree of credibility in the eyes of netizens, and it was very convenient for everyone to use.

Therefore, Baidu is removed from the first page of the 361 browser. When netizens want to search for something, they have no way to click on Baidu in the old position of the browser and then directly enter the Baidu page to search.

Instead, you need to enter the website of Baidu to search on Baidu, which brings great inconvenience to users, and thus has a certain impact on the reputation of 361 in the minds of users.

"At present, although everyone is not used to the newly updated browser page for the time being, it is still within the tolerance range. After all, they cannot find a better browser than 361 in China.

At the same time, netizens are already used to using the 361 browser, and they themselves will not be used to it if they change a browser. Therefore, the biggest controversy at present is the discussion of removing the Baidu link.

For example, there are quite a few netizens complaining about it on Tieba, and the number of replies to discussions on some related news on some portal websites is also very high, and it is also a hot topic on Weibo at present.

The 361 home page user charge is currently the number one hot topic, and the discussion about why Baidu cannot be used in the same way as before is currently the fifth hot topic. "

In the office of Rising Sun Technology, general manager Sun Yang made a detailed report on the current situation.

361 suddenly wanted to charge users on the home page, which not only shocked the entire Internet, but even went out of the circle, and many official media followed up and reported it.

After all, according to the meaning of 361’s announcement, it is clear that companies engaged in the Internet will not necessarily be listed on the homepage in the future. Some other companies can also compete for the homepage advertising space. For example, physical enterprises such as Huaxia BMW are a good example.

Therefore, it is not only the attention of Internet companies and netizens, but also the social attention of this matter has become very high under the influence of some official media.

"Is there any specific reaction?" Yang Dongxu asked.

"The bosses of several major portal websites seem to be secretly venting whether they are preparing to boycott us or have other plans.

After seeing the power of the 361 browser to block keywords on Weibo, some other Internet companies seem to have an idea of making a browser.

Among them, Baidu seems to have become more active. Not only is it working hard to develop its own Weibo, but it is said that it has held several high-level meetings on building its own wandering portal. "

Speaking of Baidu, Sun Yang curled his lips subconsciously.

To be honest, he admired this popular fried chicken at first. Although his search was an imitation of Google, when it comes to search engines, they do have two excellent products.

With such a high shareholding listed in the United States, although there is water, but its own strength is also in place, and it belongs to one of the current Internet companies that can really fight.

However, some of Baidu’s practices after the listing made it a little speechless. Before the listing, it was fine to imitate 361 and post it. After the listing, it obviously held a lot of funds harvested from the stock market.

But Baidu seems to be becoming more and more fond of bidding rankings, as long as they are willing to bid, they will dare to accept any advertisement.

For example, now that online novels are becoming popular, when you search for the name of an online novel on Baidu, the pirated website is actually ranked in a more colorful position in front of the genuine website.

What's even more exaggerated is that there is more than one pirated website at the top, there are five or six, or even more than ten. If you want to read a book on the genuine website, you can only find it by swiping down a few times.

Not to mention the rankings of some hotels, the rankings of game links, and the rankings of hospitals that are related to personal health are also subject to bidding.

Anyway, don't look at Baiduhong's purple color now, but in the eyes of his peers, many people began to curl their lips, and the trust of netizens in him also began to gradually lose.

Although he did make a lot of money in this way, his character has begun to deteriorate a little bit.

In fact, 361 suddenly began to pay for advertising links on the homepage, and many colleagues also felt that 361 wanted to take Baidu's bidding ranking. Therefore, the operation of 361 is also a bit poignant.

As the current pioneer of this industry and the current big brother, Baidu is naturally more vigilant about this point, and the senior management has held several meetings because of this matter.

And while working on its own Weibo project, it is also the most active company that wants to develop its own browser. After all, the entrance of this traffic is in the hands of 361, so how can you rest assured that it is in your own hands.

Moreover, the browser does not have any high technical barriers. The most important thing about this thing is the volume. At present, Baidu is popular. When using Baidu, there is no technical difficulty in popping up a pop-up window to install the Baidu browser.

"Keep paying attention." Yang Dongxu said.

He is not very worried about other Internet companies making browsers. From a technical perspective, browsers do have high-end technologies.

But because anyone can do it without high-end technology, the competition will be more intense. And in a market environment where anyone can do it, 361 browser, which is already the leader in the industry, basically won't fall from the leader's position as long as it doesn't kill itself.

As for the issue of charging for the link on the homepage this time, it is obviously not up to the height of death. It is just a little turbulent, but it cannot shake its position as the leader in the browser market.

When these companies who want to control the browser entrance by themselves hit the south wall, they will naturally know the pain. After all, now that the portal websites are starting to decline, it is conceivable how difficult it is for these people to kill the 361 browser.

At the same time, because of too much competition, if you want market share, you have to burn money. When it comes to burning money, it seems that Sunrise Technology is not afraid of anyone, relying on various blood transfusions from the huge game market.

Knock, knock, knock on the door.

"Come in!"

"Director Yang, Manager Sun."

"Manager Chen." Sun Yang stood up and said hello, "If there's nothing else, I'll go out first, Director Yang."

"Well, let me know if there is anything." Yang Dongxu nodded.

Chen Xin nodded to Sun Yang as farewell.

"What's the matter?" Yang Dongxu asked.

"The latest news from the United States, Yahu is going to buy Facebook."

"When did it happen?" Yang Dongxu was surprised.

Facebook, but besides Google, he has a big layout in the US market. Yahu is going to buy Facebook?

Then why didn't I, the major shareholder, know about it?

Well, now I know!