"Have you gotten used to the company these few days?"
"Pretty good."
"Are there any requirements for the canteen food?"
"No, no, it's good enough."
"Are you satisfied with the treatment?"
"Yes, very satisfied."
"Have you found a girlfriend?"
"Well, not yet."
"None?"
The seven of them shook their heads.
"That's great."
Chen Yu clapped his hands. "It's good that you don't have a girlfriend."
"Ah …"
Everyone looked at each other.
What's going on?
Isn't it pitiful to not have a girlfriend?
They're all graduate students and are already young adults.
"I'm just kidding."
Chen Yu laughed. "If you don't have a girlfriend, hurry up and find one. After all, it's very boring to write programs. It's a waste of electricity and paper."
After that, Chen Yu went straight to the point. "I believe you're already aware of the situation at Huanyu Technologies. Yes, Huanyu Technologies is preparing to enter the search engine market."
Chen Yu confirmed with the seven of them. "I don't have to explain the importance of the search engine. You know it better than I do. However, the search engine technology is a bit difficult, so I'm going to ask you to form a search team first. How about it, are you interested … "
"Boss Chen, are you saying that we'll be in charge of the search engine project?"
Wang Xiaochuan asked.
"Yes, is there anything wrong with that?"
"This, this … We've been doing theoretical research before and don't have much experience."
Wang Xiaochuan was surprised and happy to hear that Chen Yu was going to let them be in charge of the project.
However, after the surprise, he felt a lot of pressure.
The search engine looked simple, but it was very complicated.
Although they studied search engines for their three years of master's degree, it was more theoretical.
Of course, in addition to theory, they also had some practice.
For example, they had done a few engine programs before, but compared to Baidu's, they were very far behind.
"If you don't have experience, you can take it slow. Huanyu Technologies has no experience in instant messaging or online games, but didn't we still get here? I just want to know, if you guys are in charge, how much of the search engine you guys create can reach Baidu's standard? "
"70%."
After thinking about it, Wang Xiaochuan said with shame, "The main model of search engines is text analysis and hyperlink analysis technology. Text analysis is not too difficult, but Baidu and Google are experts in hyperlink analysis. They have patents related to hyperlink analysis one after another. We don't have Baidu's expertise in hyperlink analysis … "
Li Yanhong from Baidu was indeed a genius. His Hyperlink patent was one of the best in the world.
It was said that the founder of Google had also referred to Li Yanhong's hyperchain analysis at that time to come up with the rating patent.
Of course, he was not the only one. Li Yanhong was also a sea turtle. Before he started his own company, he had also done several years of research.
Even if the technology was much more advanced now, the search engine they created could only reach 70% of Baidu's standard.
In terms of technology, the gap between them was already huge.
Let alone 70%, even if it was 80% or 90%, the difference would be very obvious.
This was just like the results of sports athletes. Even a difference of one second was terrifying.
However, Wang Xiaochuan and the others were ashamed. In Chen Yu's eyes, it was different.
"I didn't expect it to reach 70%. Not bad."
It seemed that Wang Xiaochuan was indeed a talent.
He was confident that he could create a 70% Baidu search engine right after graduating from university. If they were given a few more years, they might not be able to reach 100% of Baidu's standard, but reaching 80% or 90% should not be a problem.
Although Chen Yu did not understand text analysis or hyperlink technology, he knew the future trends of search engines.
As long as Huanyu Technologies could reach 70% of Baidu's standard, Chen Yu was confident that his search engine could compete with Baidu's.
"Boss Chen, we will continue to work hard and try to shorten the gap with Baidu."
Wang Xiaochuan did not know what Chen Yu was thinking. He thought that Chen Yu was not satisfied with their standards and immediately said, "Okay.
Okay, it's settled then. "
"Huh?"
Wang Xiaochuan was dumbfounded, "Boss Chen, what do you mean?"
"I mean, the seven of you will be responsible for the search engine project."
"But?"
"But what?"
Chen Yu asked, "You don't want to be responsible?"
"No …"
Wang Xiaochuan shook his head.
How could he not want to be responsible for such a good opportunity?
This was a good opportunity to reach the sky in one step.
However, he was aware of their own standards.
Although they were good at indexing technology, they knew that there was a big gap between them and Baidu.
It would be much better if there was a top expert in the world in charge, and they could assist from the side.
However, if the seven of them were to be responsible for it … well, graduate students who had not graduated yet … they would not be able to handle it.
"If that's not the case, then prepare well. You can recruit the people you need."
"You don't have to worry about the funds. The company has arranged it for you. In addition, the server is ready. We are just waiting for your search engine. "
The search engine did not look big. It was just a box. However, if you had to click on the hundreds of millions of pages and search for the content you wanted in one second, the investment of the server would be terrifying. However, this was not a problem for Huanyu Technologies.
"Okay, that's it. Go back and find Boss Zhang. He will make the arrangements for you."
"Yes."
Wang Xiaochuan and a few of his classmates left Chen Yu's office in a daze.
"Xiaochuan, are we going to be responsible for the search engine project of Huanyu Technologies?"
"Seems like it."
"We're not dreaming, are we?"
"I think so too."
Wang Xiaochuan pinched himself. He never thought that a pie would fall from the sky.
Even though he was a genius, he still felt that it was a little unreal.
However, the pain from his thigh told Wang Xiaochuan that this was not a dream. It was real.
"Then what should we do?"
"What should we do? Just bury our heads and do it."
"But we can't beat Baidu."
"We have to do it even if we can't. Otherwise, why would Boss Chen ask us to go over?"
Although he was still uncertain, Wang Xiaochuan's lofty aspirations were ignited at this moment.
No matter what, since Boss Chen gave them such an important task, they had to do it well.
…
"Zhenyi, what's the highest number of subscriptions now?"
"4 million."
"So high."
"It's quite high. It's mainly because the company's internet cafe payment system is awesome."
"Oh, which song, Mouse Loves Rice?"
"No, Mouse Loves Rice was also very popular. However, it was surpassed by another song recently."
"Which song?"
"The First Snow of 2002."
"Haha, it's this song."
This song by Dao Lang was indeed one of the most classic songs of 2002.
It seemed that when people talked about 2002, the first thing they would think of was the First Snow of 2002.
It was normal for it to be so popular in 2002.
"However, the number of subscriptions for this song is slowly decreasing."
"It's normal. It's 2003. People can't keep singing about the First Snow of 2002."
Chen Yu was not surprised.
"Eh, the company made a profit last month?"
Looking at YY Music's financial data, Chen Yu was a little surprised.
He had been working on YY Music for a few years, but he had never thought about making money.
Although YY Music Network came up with a VIP payment model, it could make money. However, this kind of money was not much. Even the popular First Snow of 2002 only cost 400,000 yuan per song. If the singer was given 200,000 yuan, the website would only make 200,000 yuan. Including other songs, the monthly VIP payment would only be about one million yuan. However, YY Music's server fees, staff salaries, broadband costs, advertising costs … It would be at least a few million yuan per month.
From the perspective of making money, he did not want to work on a music website at all.
He was only interested in YY Music's traffic.
This could be tied to YY or MP3 from another aspect.
"How do you make money?"
Chen Yu asked.
"Haha, Boss Chen, we have a ringtone service."
"Oh."
As soon as he said this, Chen Yu instantly understood.
The profitability of the ringtone service was terrifying.
Back then, the major portals were able to survive because of the ringtone service.
However, although there was a ringtone service before, the copyright of the songs was still owned by the record company.
The record company was only limited to the electronic copyright of the Internet site, but they did not give the ringtone service.
Therefore, although Chen Yu had the electronic copyright of so many songs, the ringtone service was not very good.
It was not that he could not do it, but the channel and copyright were not with YY Music. Naturally, he could not make much money.
However, it was different now.
The ringtone copyright of some singers was not with YY Music, but the music copyright of all the original songs was with YY Music. Of course, it could not be said that they were with YY Music. The copyright of some of the original songs that were spread on YY Music still belonged to the singer. However, because they were uploaded to YY Music, according to the contract signed with the singer, YY Music had the right to operate these songs.
For example, they could launch a ringtone service or cooperate with other companies.
Of course, the profits from the ringtone service would be split equally with the singer. Everyone would make money and everyone would be happy.
Not to mention other songs, just the Mouse Loves Rice, The First Snow of 2002, The Gardenia Blossoms … had created tens of millions of ringtones. Moreover, the ringtone service cost five yuan a month. Even if some operators like Mobile Unicom wanted 70%, there would still be a profit of more than one yuan …
That was a month.
Many ringtone services would take at least a few months, or even a year or two.
This was also the reason why YY Music could make a profit.
"The Internet is really a magical place. There are many things that you can't even imagine."
Chen Yu sighed inwardly.
He had been prepared to make a loss with YY Music, but he did not expect to see a light at the end of the tunnel. He could actually make money.
"Good, focus on creating an original music platform."
Chen Yu was very impressed.
However, Chen Yu did not come to YY Music this time to review YY Music's finances.
He had something else for Xie Zhenyi to do.
"Zhenyi, the company will create another subsidiary company. It will mainly focus on celebrity Tieba."
Of course, Wang Xiaochuan's technology could not compete with Baidu's, but Chen Yu was not without ideas.
Chen Yu began to plan for the Tieba business.
"Celebrity Tieba, Boss Chen, what kind of business is this?"
"It's similar to celebrity forums. Take our song comment wall for example. Many music fans will leave comments on the song comment wall because they like a song."
"Boss Chen, are you saying that celebrity Tieba is to gather fans?"
"Yes, that's right."
Chen Yu nodded. "Listening to songs is a one-way activity. The users will leave after listening to it. To retain the users, you have to interact with them. The forum is the best place to interact."
Of course, why did he create another subsidiary company and not put it in YY Music?
Actually, YY Music's shares were a little complicated. It was a subsidiary company of Pear Technology.
Pear Technology was a joint venture between Chen Yu and Duan Yongping.
Chen Yu could not be so stingy as to let YY Music fall under Huanyu Technologies.
This was the premise of cooperation between both parties.
Bubugao was in charge of research and development and production, while Huanyu Technologies was in charge of the construction of the Internet platform.
No one was taking advantage of anyone here.
However, Chen Yu could not be so generous as to create a new business under Pear Technology.
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