Chapter 119 Give you a big mouth
Wu Xifan just left here, and Xie Wen opened the door and walked in.
"Mr. Xu, the Baidu incident is almost over. It's time for me to go to the United States. I can't delay things there any longer, otherwise things will change later."
He originally planned to go to the United States. I went to the United States a few weeks ago to resolve the Excite acquisition issue, but before I even left, I was held back by the Baidu incident.
Now that the biggest crisis has passed, with Xu Liang in charge, there is basically no danger, and it is time for him to set off.
Xu Liang nodded, "Okay, you go ahead. Solve the Excite acquisition as soon as possible, and we can develop the Japanese market earlier."
Dong dong...
There was a knock on the door.
Lu Hui opened the door and walked in.
"Mr. Xu, I just received the news that Baidu has officially filed a lawsuit with the Intermediate Court of Haidian Court, accusing us of illegal competition and disrupting market order."
"Has the court accepted it?" Xie Wen asked quickly.
“No news yet.”
Xu Liang smiled and said: “Li Yanhong is at the end of her rope.”
Xie Wen nodded, what about Bing’s free search policy? It seems to have nothing to do with illegal competition.
"Mr. Xu, you should be careful. We may not be able to get rid of Baidu's dog-skin plaster for a while."
"I understand, but you don't need to worry about this matter. Go to the United States to resolve the Excite matter first."
Xie Wen agreed.
After Xie Wen left, Xu Liang returned to his office chair and sat down, looking at the content on Sina’s webpage that denounced Hongmeng Company.
“Now that the limelight has passed, it’s time to speak out. It’s not my style to be slapped and not fight back.”
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"Yanhong, are you sure this is really useful?"
Liu Jianguo asked.
Li Yanhong knew that there was almost no chance of the lawsuit succeeding.
“I’m not sure, but we must disrupt Hongmeng’s development rhythm.”
Liu Jianguo nodded, “What do IDG and Defengjie say?”
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"What else can I say? I'm just asking how we can deal with it."
After a pause, Li Yanhong pondered for a moment and then said: "Old Liu, what do you think about us also making an independent search engine?"
Liu Jianguo immediately shook his head.
“No. Let’s not talk about the investment institutions’ disagreement. Even if they agree, we don’t have that much money.”
Independent search engines will generate huge amounts of search data and huge Traffic means that they must continue to invest in servers, and $10 million will not last long.
This is also where Li Yanhong is worried.
“I think we should learn from Hongmeng and make games.” Liu Jianguo said enviously.
Who doesn’t envy the turnover of tens of millions a month?
Li Yanhong frowned. He didn't want to be distracted when the search was not started, but the current situation forced him to find a new way out. I'm afraid Baidu would be doomed.
“I’ll think about it again.”
At this moment, Li Yanhong's cell phone rang.
“Mr. Li, please take a look at the Bing information homepage.”
Hearing the secretary’s prompt, Li Yanhong quickly opened the Bing website.
Above the concise search box, in addition to consultation, encyclopedia, knowledge, and music, there is an additional 'game' channel.
After clicking on ‘Consultation’, you will see news content one after another.
The top one is related to hundreds of poisons.
‘I don’t know what it’s like to be a rotten rat, but I guess the chicks are still alive.’ Judgment Baidu’s lawsuit must be unfair competition.
As soon as she saw the title, anger showed on Li Yanhong's face.
The allusion to this poem by Li Shangyin comes from "Zhuangzi Autumn Waters", which is extremely ironic.
Zhuangzi’s friend Huizi was serving as prime minister in the Liang Kingdom. When Zhuangzi left, Huizi was very afraid, fearing that Zhuangzi would replace him.
So Zhuangzi told him this story: The bird (the legendary bird similar to the phoenix, to which Zhuangzi compares himself) will not eat unless it is pure rice, and it will not drink from the sweet spring.
I would never envy the rotting rat (Bi phase) of the owl (harrier, bihuishi) as a delicacy.
That is to say, Quanbo doesn't eat rat meat. If you like it, just keep it for yourself. Don't think I will argue with you. Quanbao doesn't like it.
The content of this press release is similar.
Bing is an independent search engine and looks down on the corporate market.
You, Baidu, have been suspecting me of stealing your market all day long, and even sue me for being cunning. You just don’t know what to say.
"Too arrogant, too wanton, sue them, you must sue them." Li Yanhong said angrily.
Is Li Yanhong a person who eats dead rat meat?
But compared to him, Liu Jianguo was not that angry.
It’s just a war of words, it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose.
What he cares about is the news revealed in Bing's press release.
"Yanhong, if Bing has no intention of the enterprise market, there is no need for us to make the relationship too tense with them."
The enterprise search market is the company's internal search service.
For example, the search box of Qidian can search all books and authors within Qidian.
Alibaba’s search box allows you to search for all listed products.
This is the enterprise search market.
It is also the mainstream business of global search engines.
The nature of search engine services for portal websites is also this.
It’s just that the status of the portal website is too special, because of its powerful aggregation effect, high requirements for search engine technology, and it can strengthen the brand and exposure of search engines.
So it is taken more seriously.
"Who knows if they are lying, and the portal is also an enterprise service, so they kicked us away?" Li Yanhong said angrily.
Liu Jianguo nodded, "I think we should send someone to contact Bing to see their true intentions."
Li Yanhong snorted angrily, turned and left.
Looking at his back, Liu Jianguo smiled.
Having been together for so long, he also knew Li Yanhong’s character.
As long as you don't object, you agree.
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Xu Liang leaned over his desk and looked at the documents in his hands intently.
After Xie Wen went to the United States, the company's affairs fell entirely on him.
Helming a company that currently has more than 900 formal employees is also a challenge to his management abilities.
Dong Dong….
“Come in.”
He Guiyou, director of the marketing department, walked in.
“Mr. Xu.”
“Is something wrong?”
"Baidu wants to talk to us." Xu Liang became interested, "After reading our press release, we still want to talk. It seems that Baidu is very tolerant."
That manuscript was written by him.
In addition to irritating people, they also have the purpose of telling Baidu that they have no intention of entering the corporate market.
"Talk to them on behalf of the company. Just say that except for the portal website, we will not provide free search services to other companies."
"Understood."
"How is the establishment of the Magic City Marketing Department?"
"39 people have been recruited. Counting our original employees, there are already 83 people, which is enough to cope with the current company. Business volume in South China. ”
“What about Wuchang Company?”
“It has hired 27 people and is currently doing pre-job training to get them familiar with keyword optimization and bidding ranking. After that, take up the job again.”
Xu Liang nodded, "Pre-job training is necessary and can greatly improve our service quality. In addition, you are allowed to recruit 20% more staff in advance."
Bing's bidding ranking advertising growth Quickly, there will be advertising alliances in the future.
Recruit people in advance for pre-job training to cope with expansion, so that we can cope with growth more calmly and provide good corporate services.
"Understood. I will implement your request as soon as possible."
"Go ahead."
Xu Liang waved his hand.
After He Guiyou left, he packed up the documents on the table, turned around and left the office, and came to the payment department.
Not long after Hongmeng was established, the payment department was established.
It is easy to develop a payment software, but it is difficult to develop a secure enough payment software.
Hongmeng Pay has always existed as a built-in application for Internet cafe management software. The original plan to directly connect users and companies was postponed due to security concerns.
"Mr. Xu."
Seeing Xu Liang, Shang Zhengfeng hurriedly greeted him.
He is the director of Hongmeng Payment Department.
“I’ll just take a look.”
Xu Liang’s eyes swept across the office area.
The entire payment department currently has nearly thirty people, including UI, front-end and back-end.
Seeing the big BOSS, everyone was sitting upright and working hard.
Xu Liang smiled and did not bother.
Go to the left.
“Is this your workstation?”
Shang Zhengfeng nodded quickly.
Except for a pot of pothos and a water glass, the rest were all documents.
"Show me the Hongmeng Pay 2.0 version you developed."
Shang Zhengfeng nodded and quickly sat down to operate his computer.
“Mr. Xu, according to your request, our Hongmeng Pay version 2.0 supports phone number registration, replying through ID number and text message, and retrieving passwords.
Security has been revolutionary improved compared to version 1.0. ”
After opening his own payment page.
The UI design is very simple.
But not rough, but a simple beauty.
The entire page is divided into three columns: upper, middle and lower.
The top title bar.
In the middle is the payment column.
The most eye-catching thing is the ‘balance’.
Then two buttons, transfer in and transfer out.
Regardless of the transfer in and out, the bank card is associated.
Xu Liang couldn't help but sigh as he watched Shang Zhengfeng enter his bank card number bit by bit to transfer money from his bank account to Hongmeng Pay account.
These days, online payment is still in the prehistoric period, and it is very cumbersome to use.
“Develop a memory function for bank accounts. The user only needs to enter it once, and it will be remembered by the system. When he comes in next time, it will be displayed directly, eliminating the trouble of repeated input.”
This is actually to establish a personal data collection, involving personal privacy.
But it doesn’t matter, no one in the country cares.
Even abroad, Google and Facebook do the same thing, but they package it better.
“Understood.”
Shang Zhengfeng quickly wrote it down.
Demonstrate to Xu Liang, after transferring in and out functions.
Back to the homepage again.
Below the payment column is another content column.
There is currently only a solitary ‘game payment’ hanging above it.
After clicking, you can jump directly to the backend of Hongmeng Game Hall and freely choose which game to purchase points.
"Version 2.0 is good. After adding the memory function, we can launch it directly."
Shang Zhengfeng nodded excitedly. After working hard for so long, he finally saw the day of success.
"Also, please contact the marketing department and talk to Beijing Mobile to see if you can move the phone bill payment online."
If you want Hongmeng Pay to develop, a single game payment is Not enough.
Telephone charges, water, electricity and coal are the focus of the next Hongmeng payment department strategy.
“E-commerce?”
Xu Liangliang shook his head.
His plan for Hongmeng is pan-entertainment + search, and will not involve too much e-commerce.
Before the company develops, it is not a good thing to be distracted too much.
“Don’t worry, I will contact Mr. Fang immediately and negotiate with Beijing Mobile.”
Xu Liang nodded.
"Work hard, I'm leaving first."
"Yes."
After patting Shang Zhengfeng on the shoulder, Xu Liang turned and left.
After wandering around several other departments a few times, the day passed quickly.
(End of this chapter)