"Zhou Hongyi, Zhou Hongyi …"
"Let's go to 3721's headquarters."
"Boss Lee, calm down, calm down."
Li Yanhong, who had gone berserk in the office, was so angry that he was about to vomit blood.
Before this, he was prepared to cooperate with major TV stations to further promote [Baidu, you'll know] search positioning to the whole country. But he didn't expect 3721 to come out of nowhere and block more than half of Baidu's traffic.
This was a blatant robbery.
If all software did this in the future, the Internet would be a mess.
Li Yanhong, who was furious, wanted to fight Zhou Hongyi.
"Calm down, can I calm down?"
"Boss Lee, the most important thing now is not to fight with them, but to solve this crisis."
Liu Jianguo comforted Li Yanhong.
Although he was also very angry, he knew that it was useless to be angry now.
The more 3721 hijacked Baidu, the more dangerous it would be for Baidu.
"Okay, Jianguo, what do you think we should do?"
Li Yanhong took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.
He also knew the seriousness of the matter.
He also knew that even if he went to 3721's headquarters, it would be useless.
Did he really have to fight with Zhou Hongyi?
That was impossible.
"3721 is in the business of Internet plug-ins. His business doesn't overlap with Baidu's business. So, we can't threaten 3721. We can't find any trouble now, so we can only find an opportunity in the future. "
Liu Jianguo analyzed and said, "The main driving force behind this should be Huanyu Technologies."
"You're saying that we should go to Huanyu Technologies?"
"Huanyu Technologies will say that they don't know anything, and they'll push the blame to 3721."
"So you're still saying that we should go to 3721?"
"It's useless to go to 3721. They'll probably argue with us. The best way is to go to the higher-ups. Last year, the higher-ups launched an Internet trial. Although it's not perfect, they can't ignore it. And search engines are very important to the higher-ups. If 3721 really does this to the market, it will be a mess. "
"Jianguo, you're right."
Li Yanhong nodded. "I was being irrational just now. This matter needs to be dealt with as soon as possible. We can't afford to delay. "
Li Yanhong is not a person who gets angry easily. After calming down, he knows that this is not the time to find trouble with 3721.
Their most urgent task now was to find the higher-ups and put pressure on 3721.
And the sooner the better.
If this dragged on, Baidu would be finished.
"I'll look for the higher-ups. By the way, Jianguo, can you find some connections in Peking University? "
"Boss Lee, don't worry. Although I'm no longer at Peking University, I still have some connections there."
Although Peking University was a school, its influence was not simple.
Liu Jianguo used to be a professor at Peking University, so finding some connections was not a problem at all.
"Alright, let's take action on both sides."
Without further ado, Li Yanhong and CTO Liu Jianguo split up.
Of course, after the higher-ups received Baidu's report, they immediately sent someone to deal with this incident.
No matter what, this incident had a huge impact.
Not only did it affect Baidu's market, but it also affected the Internet's code of conduct.
Although China's Internet laws and regulations were not complete, if this incident was not dealt with effectively, there would be a huge problem in regulating the Internet in the future.
Therefore, the higher-ups attached great importance to this incident.
After communicating with Baidu, they went to 3721's headquarters the next day.
However, 3721's CEO, Zhou Hongyi, was not someone to be trifled with.
Zhou Hongyi said that they did not forcefully change the user's home page. When they changed the user's home page, a notification box would pop up. After the user clicked to confirm, 3721 would change the settings. The relevant departments asked why there was only a "Yes" and not a "No" in the notification box. Zhou Hongyi said that 3721 was not the only one who did this. Other Internet companies also did this.
Other Internet companies were not the only ones who did this. Even Hao123 did this.
Moreover, Hao123 wasn't the only one who did this. Baidu did the same as well.
This was normal for Internet companies and was not a big deal.
Faced with such an answer, the relevant department leaders were a little confused.
Could it be that all Internet companies did this?
Therefore, they went back to Baidu and asked if this was true.
Baidu's Li Yanhong was a little embarrassed.
Baidu did do this.
However, they only suggested it and did not forcefully change the user's home page.
The relevant departments had a headache at this moment.
You reported other people for using hooliganism, but you also used hooliganism before.
As for why you reported it now, it was because your hooliganism was not enough.
"Boss Lee, this is a little difficult."
"Director Wang, you might have some misunderstandings about the Internet. Our operation is fundamentally different from 3721's operation. We only suggested that users set Baidu's website as their home page when they used Baidu's products. However, 3721 did not do this. They first checked the PC's home page and then forcefully changed it. In other words, regardless of whether the user visited 2345 or Baidu's website, they would maliciously change it. "
"Actually, it's all the same."
Director Wang said, "Regardless of whether you forcefully changed it or suggested it, you have violated the user's personal rights. However, 3721 went overboard."
"Director Wang, I can assure you that Baidu will never do something like this again. However, if 3721 continues to do this, then the entire Chinese Internet will be threatened. In the long run, the Chinese Internet market will not be able to develop. Moreover, 3721 has been collecting protection fees from us. "
"Protection fees? What do you mean?"
"Director Wang, it's like this. 3721 has a feature that can block advertisements. If you use this feature, then all the major websites will not be able to advertise. However, you also know what the major websites rely on to survive. Don't they rely on advertisements? If they suddenly lose their advertisements, they will go bankrupt. 3721 directly said that either you pay a monthly fee or we will block your advertisements. This is actually the same as the protection fees in the real world. "
"It seems that 3721 does have a lot of irregularities."
Although Director Wang was in charge of the Internet, the Internet was a new product. He was not an expert in this field. Even if he was an expert, there were many new things happening on the Internet every day. As a manager, how could he know everything? Now that Li Yanhong suddenly exposed the problem, Director Wang became even more serious.
However, Director Wang did not listen to Li Yanhong's side of the story. After thinking for a while, Director Wang said, "Boss Lee, how about this. Tomorrow, I will invite the person in charge of 3721 over. You can talk to him face to face."
"Okay."
"Oh right, you said that the mastermind behind this is Huanyu Technologies?"
"It should be them."
Li Yanhong nodded, "3721 does not have much overlap with our business. We are not direct competitors with them. They do not have to do this to us. However, we are in direct competition with Huanyu Technologies in the search industry. Moreover, 3721 is also helping Huanyu Technologies to modify the website navigation and Yi Search. They will benefit the most from this. "
"Okay, I will invite them over tomorrow."
"Director Wang, can you not invite Huanyu Technologies?"
"Why?"
"The main thing is that I am only guessing. I have no evidence."
"Although there is no evidence, everyone knows that there is no need for evidence."
Director Wang said directly, "I will host the meeting. You don't have to worry."
"I …"
Li Yanhong wanted to say more but in the end, he did not say anything.
Of course, it was not because he did not have evidence that he did not want to invite Chen Yu over.
The main thing was that he was afraid of Chen Yu's methods.
If he were to pull Chen Yu over at that time, he would really be a little worried that he would not be a match for this guy.
"Director Wang, I think we should go to 3721 first. Huanyu Technologies can come later."
"No need."
Director Wang refused and said, "If we don't find the mastermind, how can we solve this incident? In the end, this incident was initiated by Huanyu Technologies. Okay, that's it. The higher-ups will definitely deal with this incident fairly. "
"Then … thank you so much, Director Wang."
Li Yanhong forced a smile and said.
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