Chapter 235 The wheel of the times rolls over without mercy
Before the outside world could react, Hornbill launched a new service called Global Access.
The price of this service is US$9.99/month. Compared with GMT, GMT can directly capture the content of mobile APP.
As we all know, with the rapid popularity of smartphones, the content produced on mobile apps has far exceeded that on PCs. This situation is even worse on the Simplified Chinese Internet.
Whether it is a WeChat official account, Weibo, Zhihu, or Xiaohongshu, even if these mobile apps have web apps, they will take defensive actions and refuse to be crawled by search engines.
Coupled with Baidu's own mechanism, when you search for questions, even if Zhihu's answers are more nutritious, you will still see the answers from Baidu's Baijia account.
This forces users to log in to Zhihu and use their built-in search engine to search for content.
Apps like WeChat public accounts are even more strict in terms of content control. You can search for content on Zhihu by adding the Zhihu suffix, but you can’t search for anything on WeChat even by adding the suffix. content.
After the rise of mobile Internet, mobile Internet companies regard traffic as the core value of the company.
Spend no effort in building a moat, and don’t let search engines use it for nothing.
This is true for China’s Internet, and it is also true for foreign Internet.
But the better thing about foreign mobile Internet is that they have more or less web applications. If you understand search engines, you can crawl some content.
Although the efficiency and accuracy cannot be compared with searching in the built-in search engine of the mobile app, it is better than nothing.
Hornbill's ability to break the silos of mobile and PC content completely shocked the global Internet world.
Global Access plus Global Access, the advantages brought by the superposition of members can indeed make Google stop playing.
Compared with Hornbill, Google is simply weak.
Not to mention Baidu.
Baidu’s only advantage is that Hornbill is currently a Malaysian application and has not been reviewed. Its responses are not so “correct” and it is temporarily unable to enter China.
But if it accepts the control of China and enters China, it means that Baidu will no longer have any room for survival.
It is a little difficult for Global Access to enter China, but there is no difficulty for Global Access to enter China. Baidu has no power to fight back just for Global Access, which can directly search for mobile app content.
"Haifeng, have you read the news?" Robin Li finally became anxious. He knew that Hornbill could really kill Baidu. Baidu's basic search engine business was vulnerable to the wave of new technologies.
He knows that if he cannot reach an agreement with Hornbill, then Baidu will enter a countdown to death, and the time of death depends on the time when Hornbill enters China.
He does not believe that Baidu is a core interest that cannot be abandoned.
He has also seen how Yahoo has managed to survive in the long river of history. Robin Li can also predict the bloody storm that Baidu will face after the US stock market opens in the evening. To be precise, all companies involved in the Internet business will face.
“Look, I still can’t tell how Alpha Technology does this.
Samad has deep knowledge in encryption and decryption. They must have adopted a new decryption method to make all mobile application protection measures turn a blind eye to their content capture.
If we can buy their technology, we can do it too. This is both a crisis and an opportunity for Baidu.
Once Baidu can capture the content of mobile pages, Baidu's disadvantages in the mobile Internet era will be reversed at once. " There was a hint of fanaticism in Wang Haifeng's tone.
As an old man at Baidu, Wang Haifeng witnessed with his own eyes how all of Baidu's strategic layouts in the mobile Internet era failed. In the end, Baidu's barely successful project was iQiyi.
Even iQiyi lost 30 billion to Baidu in just four years from 18 to 21. Although the unit is RMB, it is definitely not a small amount
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Therefore, Baidu cannot be said to have failed in the mobile Internet era.
But it doesn’t matter, you’ll get your money back in one go.
With Alpha Technology's content capture technology, the massive content accumulated on the mobile Internet over the past ten years will not only become Baidu's content, but also become the corpus of Baidu's artificial intelligence.
This will also bring Wen Xinyiyan's rapid progress.
The current premise is to win Hornbill.
"Yes, we can negotiate if the budget is raised to 10 billion or less." Robin Li quickly changed his strategy and significantly increased Wang Haifeng's negotiation budget for this trip to Malaysia.
“In addition, take a plane directly to the Lion City. Before arriving at the Lion City, I will ask the person in charge there to pick you up and go directly from the Lion City to Johor Bahru.
We need to be the first to meet To the person in charge of Alpha Technology.”
Such a scene appeared among senior executives of major Internet companies and financial institutions. The flights from Yanjing, Shenhai, and Pengcheng to Kuala Lumpur and Pengcheng were actually full. .
Many corporate executives had to go to Shudu and Yudu to transfer flights.
Technology giants in Silicon Valley and financial giants on Wall Street have also taken action. Everyone realizes that this is at least a tens of billions project. Hornbill does have the ability to sweep Google into the trash heap of history.
“Before today, it was really hard for me to imagine a technology company in a Southeast Asian country making a better search engine than Google.
Although it is limited by computing power, it cannot provide
But it still shows this ability. Although these two functions now require payment, there are still a small number of users willing to pay. , most users will continue to choose Google because of the cost.”
"It's not important, is it?
Since Hornbill has proven that they have the ability to replace Google, there will be countless capitals in the world to sponsor them and provide them with enough financial support to defeat Google.
< br>This financial support is enough for Hornbill to provide free AI search engine services to users around the world.
We will consider charging after cultivating enough user habits. Furthermore, Google’s search engine profit model has already been established. Help me think clearly. Is it difficult to add ads in tab push?
Hornbill is like the sword of Damocles hanging over its head and ready to fall at any time. As for what? The timing depends entirely on Samad's personal wishes
I'm really curious about Samad's true identity. How could such a talent come out of this damn place like Malaysia? "You are right. From a capital perspective, if there is a player in the search engine field that can truly challenge Google, we will not hesitate to provide it with ammunition to defeat Google, even if it costs 100 billion US dollars. It would be a good deal if it could take away Google's market share.
The entire Bing market share is less than 10%, and it has cost 100 billion.
I see a lot of people on Twitter guessing that Samad is Satoshi Nakamoto. Although it is impossible to say that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, he is definitely a well-known figure in the academic world.
I guess he will have to reveal his true identity in a while. ”
"It's hard to imagine that after the advent of the artificial intelligence era, the first giant to fall would be Google."
Two partners from Wall Street investment institutions were having a conversation on the plane.
When I heard the other party say that the first giant to fall was Google, one of them concluded that Google was going to fall and sat next to him because it was less than 24 hours after Hornbill launched its global service The partners didn’t even question it.
The essential logic behind this is that a large number of Wall Street financial institutions will sponsor Alpha Technology to burn money and defeat Google. For Google, Hornbill does not need to defeat them, it only needs to steal enough considerable profits from Google users. Market share, Google is screwed.
This is so impressive that you don’t even need half of it, just one third is enough.
The reason why the revenue and profits of Google's advertising business were so high in the past was essentially because Google was the absolute majority in the search engine field. It essentially constituted a relative monopoly. This relative monopoly resulted in absolute pricing power for advertising revenue. .
Once it loses this relative monopoly position and only occupies the majority of the market share, advertising revenue will not decline proportionally, so the falling market value will also not decline proportionally.
What's more, the strength shown by Hornbill can obviously not only seize part of Google's market, but Hornbill will most likely seize most of Google's market.
Both partners see this very clearly. Google is not far from falling, and its ending will be no different from that of the fallen Silicon Valley giants in history.
“If Alpha further optimizes Hornbill, it may even threaten the status of other question-and-answer artificial intelligence.”
"It's not possible, it's certain.
I have a hunch that Alpha Technology will be the first giant in the field of artificial intelligence born after the arrival of the artificial intelligence era.
The technology they have demonstrated It is enough to prove that they have this strength, and Samad has such ambitions
The only thing I am worried about now is that Alpha Technology does not accept financing. After all, Samad has made too much money in the cryptocurrency field. , he has no shortage of capital to burn money in the early stage.
The growing number of users of the Tianping Exchange he has launched now has a steady flow of cash flow. ”
This is not just a concern for Wall Street elites, it is also a concern for Princess Amina.
While the emergence of Hornbill attracted global attention, Princess Amina naturally noticed it. She was pleased with the progress of Alpha Technology. After all, she had a stake in it, and she was also aware of the cake. She may not be able to keep it.
Based on the assets of the graphics card, it is no problem given her power in Malaysia, but if it is valued on the basis of Google as a whole, let alone her, even her father, the current Sultan of Malaysia, will not be able to Can't keep it.
"Princess Amina, Mr. Samad would like to talk to you directly." Oraz rushed to the residence where the princess spent most of his time, bowed and said.
In 2012, the Sultan of Johor issued a decree that only the place where the king lives can be called a palace, and the place where relatives live can only be called a residence.
Princess Amina nodded slightly: "How did he talk to me?"
"Wait a moment, Mr. Samad will call. He said that it is not the time for him to show up yet." Oraz After saying this, the thought came to my mind that I have to go head-on with Google. It’s not the time to show up yet, so when will it be the time to show up?
Amina also had the same idea. With such a loud tone, no wonder it caused such a big stir in just half a year.
“Princess Amina, hello, I’m here to talk to you about Alpha Technology.
You should also know that after the launch of Alpha Technology, it attracted the attention of the global capital market. According to the news I have received, financial institutions and technology giants from major regions such as America, China, and Europe are sending people to Johor to try to find us for negotiations
They hope to get a seat at the table in the carve-up of Google. ”
The voice coming from the phone sounded like AI. Even after Amina cooperated with Samad, she sent people to spy on the other party’s true identity, but found nothing. In the process of spying, she excluded Austria. It’s possible that Raz is Samad.
Amina frowned, she would definitely not be able to resist such great pressure, even if the other party was willing to transfer the benefits again.
“I understand, so I do. What needs to be done? Or what can I do?
Compared with financial institutions on Wall Street, Malaysia is not strong enough to compete, especially if they threaten financial attacks, I may not be able to give you the results you want. "Amina said.
“Currently, the number of registered users of Hornbill has exceeded 50 million, the number of users who have activated Global Access has exceeded 3 million, and the number of users who have activated Global Access has exceeded 1 million, and this number is still increasing.
In Ke In the foreseeable future, it is only a matter of time before Hornbill defeats Google in the search engine field.
Our only concern is regulation. Different regulatory strategies in different countries may lead to Hornbill being banned.
So we need to. Appropriately accept external financing to solve this problem.”
As soon as these words came out, Amina breathed a sigh of relief. As long as she accepted the financing, accepting financing meant pulling more allies onto the chariot. , so that she would have no pressure at all.
She was afraid that Samad was an idealist who was particularly resistant to capital, and hoped that she could withstand the pressure from Washington and Yenching.
Amina regrets it now, because Alpha Technology gave her equity based on the method of different rights for the same shares, which means that it has only economic value and very few voting rights.
Considering that once external financing is accepted, it means that sooner or later it will be listed. These 30% shares can mean huge benefits, and she can't help but feel excited.
“I agree with your decision.” Amina said.
“So regarding financing, I hope that you will serve as the representative of Alpha Technology to contact representatives from all parties.
Our appeal is simple. Alpha Technology only accepts A/B shares for financing. Investors can only enjoy the dividends brought by the development of Alpha Technology, but cannot gain control of Alpha Technology. They can sign a gambling agreement.
Given Hornbill’s global presence, investors can help prevent any potential restrictions on Hornbill in their own countries.
For example, the Amerikan Congress’s ban, China’s domestic access restrictions, the EU’s access restrictions, etc. Of course, in order to enter these markets, we can make adjustments that suit the country where they are located.
Finally, all the funds raised in this round of financing will be used to expand the scale of the data center. Alpha Technology cannot move away from Malaysia, and it will continue to operate in Malaysia for a long time. ”
(End of this chapter)