The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

Zhang Qianyang was very annoyed recently. When Qiu Bosong from 361 wanted to acquire 123, he was happy to sell it when the asking price reached 15 million.

After all, someone had approached him before, and the price for 123 Browser had never been higher than 10 million. And 361 is menacingly backed by the behemoth Tunghsu Technology.

Unless I continue to raise funds or find a more reliable backer, the browser market share will definitely be squeezed out by 361 companies, so 123 browsers are expected to be rotten in my hands, it is better to sell them to 361, and it will only take a year or two after hard work It's not too good to make a net profit of more than 12 million in a short period of time.

But when he was talking with Qiu Bosong of 361, Baidu stepped in. Originally, he didn't want to pay attention to the other party. After all, 361's price of 15 million was very sincere.

But in the end, he still couldn't hold back his greed. After Baidu quickly provided supporting services for several major portal websites, it was spotted by some venture capitalists. In order to arm itself to obtain a more valuable proportion of venture capital financing, the acquisition of 123 is undoubtedly a good choice.

So Baidu came up with a price of 16 million, and directly increased the negotiation by 1 million. However, there is a condition that only 6 million yuan can be paid in advance, and the subsequent 10 million yuan needs to be paid in installments within one year after Baidu financing. This makes him still inclined to trade with 361.

After all, the Internet business bubble just burst in the first half of this year, and I don’t know if this storm will sweep across the country. It’s too unsafe to be in this industry for a year. However, the price increase of 1 million is not a lot, so he dragged the 361 side a little bit.

Then 361 paid directly to 16 million yuan, and Baidu raised the price of 123 website to 20 million yuan, as if it was determined to win.

This made Zhang Qianyang, who was originally inclined to trade with 361, no longer entangled in an instant, and began to sit on the Diaoyutai and watch the two companies fight each other, and he finally made a profit.

Although he knew that doing so might be dangerous, Zhang Qianyang also had his own confidence. After all, 123 is the absolute leader in the current domestic browser market, accounting for almost 53% of the market.

That is to say, at present, all netizens and users are using 123. Although Qiu Bosong is aggressive, 361 has not been rolled out in the market after all.

Therefore, he wants to take 123 directly as a springboard, so it is only good for him to wait for a while, because the number of views of 123 is still rising steadily as time goes by.

The longer the negotiation time dragged on, the price of 123 also rose steadily, but what he didn't expect was that Baidu just called out a price of 20 million, and Qiu Bosong ignored him.

After waiting for a while and finding no results, Zhang Qianyang prepared to make a deal with Baidu. Although the other party's installment payment was not what he liked, he was very satisfied with the transaction price of 20 million after all.

But what he didn't expect was that Baidu, which was in the process of financing negotiations, should really need 123 browser as an important supplement, but after Qiu Bosong withdrew, Baidu's attitude instantly became ambiguous.

First, the progress of the negotiations was slow, and then they began to wrestle with each other on the price. At this time, Zhang Qianyang found that something was wrong, so he went to Qiu Bosong again, but in the end, he only offered 14 million yuan, which was lower than the previous price.

At the beginning, seeing the steady increase in the number of browser views, although he was very upset by Baidu and Qiu Bosong's haggling, Zhang Qianyang was not in a hurry. Because he is still the leader in the domestic browser market.

But for a period of time, the number of pageviews increased but the market share did not increase, but decreased. This made Zhang Qianyang feel uneasy like grass growing.

At present, the number of domestic Internet users has increased from nearly 6 million at the beginning of the year to 8 million. It was originally expected that the number of domestic Internet users could exceed 10 million next year, and it may be reached by the end of this year. Next year, it may be possible to run towards the number of 20 million.

In this way, when the financial crisis broke out on the Internet all over the world, the Great Wall of Internet in the Chinese market is like the Himalayas, keeping the cold out, and the domestic Internet market is booming in a mess.

Therefore, as the leader in the browser market, with the increase of Internet users, the market share of browsers should also increase gradually.

But he found that this was not the case. First of all, Microsoft's system is currently used in China, and Microsoft's own browser occupies a part of the market.

Then Sohu browser stepped in here again, and although 361 browser did not acquire him and successfully expanded the market, it was a bit slow, but they started with game players and cooperated with major Internet cafes across the country.

The browser is very reasonable in terms of page production and content design, so many netizens who are used to surfing the Internet in Internet cafes will subconsciously choose to install a 361 browser instead of a 123 browser when they buy a computer.

This has resulted in the phenomenon that 123 has a pageview market share but does not increase. This made him feel a sense of crisis. After all, the browser is mainly based on traffic.

But the traffic is not fixed on his website, but can be transferred. The stickiness of browser-bound users is really bad. Today's traffic looks good, and tomorrow it may be a cliff-like avalanche.

So at this time, Zhang Qianyang wanted to speed up the negotiations with Baidu, and even made concessions on the price promised by the other party before, but Baidu's negotiations were still tepid, and he hoped that he would drop it again.

At this time, he felt that he was being tricked, so he started looking for Qiu Bosong again. As a result, Qiu Bosong's offer was only 12 million, and the reason given was very simple. 361 already had a certain market share.

And they also have their own plans. Even if they don't acquire 123, they are confident that they will become the leader of the browser within two years. The acquisition of 123 is just to speed up this kind of entry into the city, and they have no financing pressure because they are backed by Tunghsu Technology, so whether it is fast or not is actually not that important.

"MD!" In the office of 123 Company, Zhang Qianyang hung up the phone and cursed fiercely.

My side has already lowered the price promised by the other party to 18 million, but Baidu still doesn't want to talk about it. It seems that they also noticed that the 361 browser has entered the market and its performance has begun to grow steadily. After the demand for 123 is not as urgent as before, they naturally don't want to spend so much money without competitors.

It’s not that Baidu doesn’t want to talk about it. They bought 123 in good faith before, because it was related to their second financing.

But recently they have found a new profit channel 'Search Engine Bidding Ranking', which is the operation model that has been searched for in the forefront of spam ads by countless online games in later generations.

This operating model was not actually created by Baidu, but by Google. Google is also a search engine, so the effect of using it on Baidu is very good.

Therefore, after having their own profit model, they have already started to become stronger. It seems a bit unnecessary to spend nearly 20 million on a coat to disguise themselves. After all, when they bought 123 before, it was just for financing, and they didn’t want to do browsing. device meaning.

After all, in the domestic search market, there are not only Baidu, but also Yahoo and Google. It is not that Baidu is the only one, but there are also competitors who cannot disperse their energy.

Therefore, they have a stronger profit model, and with the withdrawal of 361 company, they are naturally not as active in negotiating with 123 as before.

When Zhang Qianyang was swearing, Yang Dongxu and Qiu Bosong were looking at the well-made web games in the game department of Rising Sun Technology. At present, Rising Sun Technology has established its third game department-web game department.

The payment collection web game launched is "Flagfire Lords". According to the general framework mentioned by Yang Dongxu, coupled with the current sufficient programmers, the design of this strategic web game has been completed in more than a month and is now in progress.

"Zhang Qianyang called again and wants to resume negotiations with us?" Qiu Bosong stood beside Yang Dongxu, and the two of them were watching the inside of several programmers working on a web game.

"Baidu doesn't like him anymore?"

"Baidu has set up a bidding ranking, and the second financing negotiation went more smoothly than expected. After all, both Google and Yahoo are doing English searches now.

And Baidu is the largest Chinese search engine in the world, coupled with the soaring number of Internet users in China and the fact that it is alone in this Internet bubble wave, so many venture capitalists are optimistic about Baidu, and there is no need for him to bundle a browser with him. " Qiu Bosong said.

"10 million. If he sells it, it will be at this price. If he doesn't sell it, he will be knocked down." Yang Dongxu thought about it and said.

In fact, the acquisition of 123 is just to pave the way for the promotion of 361. In fact, browsers do not make much money in China. Even 360, which dominates the world in later generations, always finds it difficult to find various profit channels.

According to the development history of the domestic Internet, the three major portals have reached the peak of the historical period, and the entire Internet market will transition from 1.0 to 2.0 in the future.

At this time, portal websites began to decline, search engines began to become popular, and Baidu also took advantage of this opportunity to rise completely.

But whether it is 1.0, or 2.0, or the era of Internet 3.0 after 2008, the browser is only an important component of the Internet, but it has never played the core role.

Yang Dongxu's desire to be a browser is actually aimed at the comprehensive development chain of security guards, portals and videos in the future. To make money from the browser alone, to be honest, he might as well compete with Baidu to do search.

"12 million, he should be able to accept this price, it's not a premium on the market price." Qiu Bosong said, and pouted at the web game he was testing.

If web games didn't appear, he would definitely be inclined to keep lowering the price. Anyway, the promotion of 361 browser is good now, and it doesn't make a big difference whether to buy 123 or not.

But web games are a little different. This thing eats up the market share of browsers. And because the threshold is not too high, if they don't buy 123 at that time, 123 can also do it.

"Almost forgot about this thing." Yang Dongxu rubbed his chin, "You can talk about it, get it before the game's public beta.

In this way, during the public testing of this game, all computer users using the 361 browser will play a link on the webpage, just like MM and CC. At the same time, we also have an authorized login. The number of players of Legend and Swordsman is also several million Cardinal. "