Baidu.
Ever since Baidu launched the auction ranking, Baidu's profits had increased tremendously.
Although there had been some problems with the auction ranking before, such as the battle between YY and QQ, which made Baidu's auction ranking a little controversial, overall, this business was very effective. There were too many businesses that wanted to advertise online, and it was not just internet companies.
There were clothing, home appliances, cars, building materials, electronics, medicine … There were too many businesses.
"Old Xu, what did I say before? You were against it. Look, if we didn't launch the auction ranking, we would probably starve to death."
In the office, Li Yanhong said to Xu Yong, who had been against him before.
"This can only mean that our keyword placement has a great advantage."
Although Xu Yong did not completely agree with the auction ranking, as long as one did not do anything evil in the auction ranking, they could still use the system. In particular, there were no companies in China that had the technology to place advertisements so accurately. This also gave Baidu an advantage over web portals.
Businesses could use the least amount of money to obtain the best user base.
"However, we still have to quickly occupy the market."
Xu Yong was one of the founders of Baidu. Although his shares were less than Li Yanhong's, his vision was extremely sharp.
Moreover, it was Xu Yong's idea to return to China to start a business.
"Indeed."
Li Yanhong also nodded.
The year 2002 was still in the early stages of China's internet development. Although the major startups could achieve rapid growth, it also meant that their foundation was not solid. Although Baidu now occupied more than 80% of the domestic search engine market, this was not enough. If other search engines appeared, Baidu would be in danger.
At the moment, users had not formed a search habit for Baidu, and he had only used it for a short time.
"Old Xu, do you still want to do instant messaging?"
Previously, during the battle between YY and QQ, Baidu took the opportunity to launch their Baidu instant messaging device.
Unfortunately, the response was mediocre.
Both of them were search engine experts. They were the world's top experts in the search field, but they were still amateurs when it came to instant messaging.
"Forget about instant messaging."
Xu Yong also shook his head, "You've seen the instant messaging we've been operating recently. I'm too embarrassed to look at the data there."
"Every profession has its own specialization."
Li Yanhong also sighed. "Forget it, let's focus on our search engine first."
"I think so too."
Xu Yong nodded. "I have an idea."
"I have an idea too."
The two looked at each other and laughed. "Haha, Old Xu, you go first."
"Yan Hong, you have the most shares. You should go first."
"I think we might be thinking the same thing."
"Why don't we …"
The two nodded and said in unison, "Music."
That's right.
The two of them were indeed thinking the same thing.
Both of them stared at the music.
Of course, it wasn't because the two of them had the same train of thought.
In fact, there was a pattern to the search business. For example, through the keywords that users searched for, you could find out what users liked the most. Users were searching and chatting, so he might want to use instant messaging. User searches for sports, he may need to buy sportswear. If the user was bored, he might be looking for a girl. If the user searched for a girl, then …
Everything that the user searched for could become Baidu's best analysis method.
And the Internet had the most searches. Forget it, let's not talk about this. Everyone knows.
Other than this, the second most searched for by users was music.
In fact, movies, animations, TV series … also had a lot of searches.
But these were still not as big as music and songs.
After all, music was the carrier with the widest audience.
Baidu used search engines to attract users, and Baidu used music to retain users.
This was the same as YY's approach. It was to increase the user's viscosity and form a user's habit.
Once a user's habit reached a certain level, they wouldn't be able to change it even if they wanted to.
"However, it seems that Huanyu Technologies has acquired search engines."
Both of them paid attention to music, so they were naturally no strangers to search engines. Of course, even if they didn't pay attention to music, as search engines, they were more familiar with the major sites around the world than other Internet companies.
"Yes, I follow it."
Li Yanhong nodded. "Currently, search engines have merged with YY Music. In addition, YY Music has spent a lot of money to buy the majority of the domestic music copyrights and forced most of the pirated music sites away."
"This is a bit troublesome. If we do it, we may have a conflict with Huanyu Technologies."
"It's okay to have a conflict. Which Internet company doesn't have a conflict with other companies?"
"The key is that they control the majority of the music copyrights."
"They do control the copyrights, but we don't know what the higher-ups mean."
Electronic music copyrights were a big problem not only in China, but also abroad.
Only a few countries were doing okay, but the higher-ups hadn't thought it through yet.
They still didn't know what electronic music copyrights could do in this area. Therefore, a series of laws and regulations related to the Internet were not particularly perfect. This could be seen from the management method that was proposed not long ago. The higher-ups were still observing … Since they were observing, Baidu could do it.
"We won't go head-to-head with Huanyu Technologies regarding copyrights. We will only do search. We search for music from other websites. This has nothing to do with us. The search engine for music on search engines is good. We can do it too. "
Speaking of which, search engines were also considered a search engine.
However, search engines weren't searching for web pages. They were searching for music.
Search engines were all common in this area.
Moreover, Baidu's search technology was much better than search engines.
"We can do it, but most of the pirated music sites have been forced away by Huanyu Technologies. Even if we do it, we probably won't be able to find many sources."
"Don't worry. As long as we do it, there will be people who will provide us with sources."
Electronic music copyrights were still in a state of confusion. Some personal music sites were threatened by Huanyu Technologies and naturally had to shut down.
However, if someone came prepared, it wasn't something that could be shut down with a few threats.
As long as there were benefits, a series of pirated music sites would still open. At most, there would be a change of people.
…
"Yang Bin, let me ask you a question."
"What question? I'm so tired. I want to sleep."
"Damn, how can you sleep so much?"
"Brother, I've been working at your hot pot restaurant every day. How can I not be tired?"
"Okay, okay, okay. Just one question. Do you think it's okay to use some methods to do business?"
"It depends on what methods are used."
"It's not illegal for now."
"Then it shouldn't be a problem."
"That's it?"
"What do you want to hear?"
"No, nothing. Go to sleep."
Without disturbing Yang Bin, Chen Yu took a stool to the balcony to bask in the sun.
For the past two days, Chen Yu had been thinking about Duan Yongping's words. He didn't want to make enemies with other companies.
However, he had no choice.
The internet wasn't like hardware.
Hardware was a natural barrier. Design, production, sales, distribution, all of these had to be opened up.
Sometimes, it wasn't something that could be done just because you wanted to.
However, he didn't have access to the internet. Sometimes, the internet relied on creativity. Especially when your traffic was large enough. In theory, when your traffic was large enough, you could enter any industry you wanted. Just like in his previous life, Tencent could do e-commerce, and Alibaba could do instant messaging …
These few markets were simply too big. Even if you didn't want to become enemies with them, they would automatically find you.
Forget it, let's not think about it.
Although Teacher Duan was his senior and he should listen to his advice, Chen Yu really didn't have a choice.
"Boss Chen, bad news."
"Damn, bad news as soon as I get a call?"
Just as he thought about it, bad news came as soon as he picked up the phone.
"Brother Jian, what's wrong?"
"Baidu has made a move."
"Baidu?"
Chen Yu was stunned. "Baidu Music?"
Sure enough, what he was worried about came true.
Although Chen Yu and Baidu didn't have much of a grudge, there was competition when benefits came.
Baidu went from the search engine business to the online music business.
"Yes, Baidu launched a new business last night, Baidu Music. As long as you search Baidu Music, users can search for any music source they want."
"Damn."
Needless to say, this was Baidu's MP3 business in his previous life.
However, MP3 was not that popular yet, so Baidu's business was not called Baidu MP3 for the time being. Instead, it was called Baidu Music. The business model was simple. It was to provide users with music search, listening, and download.
This was the same business as the search engine business.
Relying on such a music search, Xie Zhenyi was able to reach the top 100 in the world with only one person. Needless to say, Baidu moved this business to their platform.
F * ck, this was a blatant war with YY Music.
"Got it, wait for me to return to the company."
After hanging up the phone, Chen Yu couldn't help but sigh. Look, Chen Yu didn't want to be enemies with others.
He didn't provoke Baidu, and Baidu came to him.
Is he going to raise his hands and surrender now?
Of course not.
"Hey, Chen Yu, where are you going? It's time for class."
"Help me apply for a few days off."
"Damn, you have applied for enough days off."
But Chen Yu couldn't care less. He took a taxi back to the Huanyu Technologies headquarters.
"I didn't expect Baidu to plagiarize."
"Why not? The music market is so big, and it's normal for Baidu to want to enter."
"What should we do now?"
"Baidu is nothing to be afraid of. Let's fight them to the end."
Xie Zhenyi almost cursed when he saw Baidu plagiarizing the original search engine business.
But he also knew that this kind of plagiarism didn't count. It was impossible that the search engine business couldn't do it on other websites.
"Oh, everyone's chatting is quite lively."
As soon as he returned to the headquarters, Chen Yu saw Zhang Jianming, Li Nan, Xie Zhenyi, and Wang Chang sitting in the conference room and discussing enthusiastically.
"Boss Chen, you're back."
"It's okay, everyone continue to chat."
Chen Yu waved his hand and asked everyone to sit down. He was going to sit in and listen.
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PS: Yesterday, Big White confessed. It seems that everyone completely understands the reality that Big White is poor. Many readers also promised that as long as Big White updates well, they will give it to the leader. Is this true? Forget about the Alliance Leader title (Da Bai actually really wanted that title), but how about a reward or two? How about that?
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