The next morning, the streets are foggy. The weather in London is always like this.
Fang Tian had been here for some time, and he had gotten used to the weather in London.
Soft cloud headquarters, Europe.
Fang Tian and Li Qiguang entered the building and went straight to the R&D department to meet the Product Manager.
Angel Search is about to be launched, and Feng Yu wants to see how the team is doing.
The team that developed the English version of Angel Search were all foreigners. Some of them were from the UK, some from Germany, and some from the US.
There are about 300 people in the team.
Li Qiguang had suggested to let the Chinese developers work on the English version of Angel Search. Why hire so many European engineers?
Fang Tian's explanation is simple. It is to make the product more localized!
Back then, Google Search entered China and was forced to withdraw from the market.
Many people said Google was forced to leave China because of the regulations.
Even if it was not because of the regulations, Google's market share in China was very low.
This is why Google withdrew from the China market and did not return for many years. Dissatisfaction with the regulations is not the main reason. As long as there are benefits, Google will comply with the regulations.
Most importantly, Google does not have enough funds to compete with the Chinese search engines.
Why did Google fail?
One of the reasons is Google's localization is not good enough. Like most foreign internet companies, they are not used to the local environment.
They do not understand the Chinese culture and do not understand the Chinese users' habits. Naturally, they cannot produce products that are suitable for the Chinese users.
Baidu has a popular search engine. You will know after searching Baidu. Does Google have it? Don't underestimate this phrase. It is very effective in promoting the product.
China's search engines had introduced some services based on the Chinese users' habits. For example, Tieba communities based on keywords.
Does Google have it?
There were also many foreign products, software labels, or document descriptions that were expressed using the logic of foreigners. This often made the Chinese people very uncomfortable.
After coming to Europe, Fang Tian set up a R&D department in London. Other than the code, the software interface, labels, etc., are all done by the foreigners.
This is to make the product more suitable for the foreigners and more acceptable to the Chinese.
The Product Manager, Mr. Lomas Bino, smiled and greeted Fang Tian when he entered the office.
Fang Tian nodded. He stood in front of the computer and looked at the page they had designed.
The entire Angel Search page was very different from the domestic version.
For example, the Chinese version of Angel Search had a much bigger search box. After all, it was Chinese, and a bigger search box made it more comfortable to look at.
Since the foreigner typed in English, the search box was smaller.
There were also some minor changes to the experience.
If this kind of interface was placed in China, Chinese users would definitely not like it. But foreigners liked this kind of page.
Other than the interface design, the international version of Angel Search was also very different from the domestic version.
Due to the stricter regulations in the country, many search results had to be filtered and could not be displayed.
However, the international English version was different. There was more freedom, and a lot of things could be found.
For example, the movies and pictures that men liked to watch could be easily searched.
The international version was a must. Otherwise, the foreigners would not be able to find the resources he wanted. He would not use it.
No matter which country they were doing business in, they had to abide by the laws and culture of that country. Such a search was legal in Europe, so it could be done.
They could do it, but they had to pretend to be noble. That would be stupid. They had to go against traffic and money.
To the foreigners, ethics and morals were not as important as the Chinese. Their priority was still profits.
Angel Search's business model was also based on bidding.
In other words, they were selling keywords.
For example, the keyword "Apple." No matter if the merchant was selling fruits or mobile phones, the more you pay, the higher the search results will be.
It was not an exaggeration to say that every keyword was worth a thousand gold.
This was a huge source of income, and Google had relied on it to make waves of money.
In this lifetime, Angel was going to compete with Google. They were going to compete for traffic, users, and advertising shares.
Fang Tian cleared his throat and looked at his team members. "Our only opponent is Google. Only by defeating it can we get more advertising revenue for us. This will help us gain more traffic and draw traffic to other applications. "
Product Manager Lomas asked. "This is not an easy task. Fang, I want to know, how are you going to promote our Angel Search? "
Fang Tian cleared his throat. "After using Angel Search, you should have realized that our search technology is more powerful than Google's. Of course, I know that this is not the main reason to attract users.
"For example, Mr. Lomas, your New Orleans roast beef is delicious, but most people do not know about it. No matter how well you cook it, no one will eat it."
Lomas laughed, and so did the rest of the team members.
"So, we need a powerful application to promote our search engine."
Lomas immediately asked, "What application is it?"
Fang Tian quickly tapped on the keyboard and entered a string of English words!
Everyone's eyes lit up when they saw it!
"Angel Browser!" Lomas was excited.
"Yes." Fang Tian nodded. "Angel Browser has a large number of users in Europe. With it, we can promote our search engine quickly."
Soft cloud has two software, and it had become popular in Europe a long time ago. One is Angel Cloud Browser, and the other is RY compression software.
RY compression software is very popular globally because of its high compression rate. RY format has become the world standard.
Angel Browser also has a high share of users in Europe.
There is a search interface on the browser's homepage.
In the address bar, the default option is Angel Search.
Google's search engine is so popular worldwide because of Google Browser.
Before Google Browser was introduced, almost all the netizens in the world were using Microsoft's IE.
After using Google Browser, they realized that IE has many problems. It is unstable, slow, and crashes easily.
In Feng Yu's previous life, Google only introduced their own browser in 2008.
When Fang Tian came to this world, Angel Browser was developed in 2000. It is also an independent browser core. It is very fast and supports all kinds of Internet protocols. It is also the world's first multi-process browser. Opening a new page will not cause the previous page to close.
With its excellent experience, Angel Cloud Browser has a 48% market share in Europe!
Fang Tian smiled. With the help of Angel Cloud Browser, he can quickly promote Angel Search!
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