"Li Nan, wait, there's one more thing. ”

Li Nan was about to leave, when Chen Yu said again.

"Mr. Chen, what's the matter?"

"Well, how long will it take for you to do an instant messaging now? ”

"Mr. Chen, are you really going to engage in instant messaging?"

Li Nan was excited.

He had long known that Chen Yu couldn't keep engaging in game websites.

That's not to say that gaming sites don't have a future.

Game sites have a future, but no matter how promising they are, they can't compare to instant messaging.

"Well, let's try it first, but our positioning is a little different from ordinary instant messaging. ”

"Mr. Chen, can you tell me what you think?"

"This ...... It's hard to say right now. ”

"Instant messaging is not very technically difficult, and I can do it in a day. ”

"No, it won't. ”

Chen Yu was dumbfounded: "It's going to come out in one day, are you hanging?"

"Hehe, Mr. Chen, don't forget that I developed UC at the beginning, and I have the source code of UC here. ”

"UC source code?"

Chen Yu was stunned for a moment and said, "Isn't this Xinlang's?"

"Xinlang had initial investment intentions at that time, but then the penguins were so strong that we failed at UC. Later, Xinlang wanted to develop it by itself, and then our UC team was disbanded, and the source code finally belonged to me. ”

"Are there any copyright issues?"

"I can assure you that there are no issues and the source code is now entirely mine. ”

"Okay, the company paid 100,000 yuan to buy your UC source code. ”

"Mr. Chen, don't do so much. ”

"It's okay, who told you to surprise me, I thought it would take months to get it done. Since you have the UC source code, that's great. You go back and make changes to the source code, and in addition, add a completely new feature. ”

"What function?"

"Chat room. ”

Li Nan was a little puzzled: "Isn't adding a chat room to instant messaging a technological regression? Besides, with instant messaging, it seems that there is no need for a chat room." ”

In the early days of the Internet, forums and chat rooms were more popular.

The forum has probably been used by everyone.

As for chat rooms, there are some like the live streaming rooms now.

It's just that the live broadcast is audio-visual, but the early chat rooms are textual.

Everyone entered this chat room because of a topic and had a sea chat.

It was only later with the advent of instant messaging that chat rooms slowly declined.

Chen Yu said that adding a chat room to instant messaging is indeed a technological regression for Li Nan.

"It's true that there are some regressions in terms of technology, but instant messaging is not all there is to social. Although chat rooms will slowly be replaced by instant messaging, in many cases, instant messaging cannot replace chat rooms. You make it first, and then you'll know the effect. Of course, let's go through the guild system first. ”

"Yes, Mr. Chen. ”

Although I still don't understand it in my heart, as Chen Yu said, what the effect is, let's see after it is made.

......

Sohu Game Division.

As one of the four major portals, Sohu recently saw that NetEase was making a lot of money in the game, and Zhang Chaoyang, who has always been an old man, couldn't sit still and established the Sohu Game Division, ready to enter the field of online games.

However, it is not the same as NetEase.

Although Sohu also makes games, in addition to making games himself, he also plans to engage in game portals.

After all, it was the portal that started, and Zhang Chaoyang knows the role of the portal too well.

In this way, the production and publicity are in their own hands, so why worry about their own games not being popular, this is called being prepared.

To this end, Sohu acquired 17173 as soon as possible.

Of course, initially Sohu wanted to acquire 5173, but after doing the math, some of them were not cost-effective. After all, the Internet bubble in 2000 made Sohu have no food to spare, and his pockets collapsed, otherwise he would not have thought of making money in the game. Thinking about it this way, it is better to buy a 17173 that has some experience, but does not require much money.

With the diversion of his Sohu portal, 17173 can definitely quickly win 5173.

At this time, the person in charge of the Sohu game division was Gu Yongqiang.

Gu Yongqiang went to Australia to study at the age of 14, and was later admitted to Berkeley, California, majoring in economics. After graduation, he worked at Bain Capital for a period of time, and later returned to China to join Wells Fargo Investment, where he became famous in the investment field. In 1998, Gu Yongqiang began to pay attention to the Internet and met Zhang Chaoyang of Sohu. Originally, Gu Yongqiang wanted to invest in Sohu, but Zhang Chaoyang found that Gu Yongqiang was very compatible with him, and said directly, don't come to invest in me, just come to Sohu as president.

With Gu Yongqiang's joining, and because Gu Yongqiang has a capital background. Sohu has grown rapidly in a short period of time and was listed in the United States for the first time.

This time, Sohu set up an online game branch, and Zhang Chaoyang sent Gu Yongqiang, which can be seen that Sohu attaches great importance to online games.

"Mr. Gu, I didn't expect 5173's counterattack to be so fast. ”

"We had just signed the contract, and 5173 was crazy about advertising on major websites. ”

"If we continue to fight like this, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us 17173 to get up. ”

Speaking to Gu Yongqiang was Cai Zongjian, the founder of 17173.

Cai Zongjian wears a pair of glasses and looks very gentle.

He turned out to be just a gaming enthusiast and originally founded 17173 purely as a hobby.

He likes to collect a series of information about online games, but slowly 17173 traffic is getting bigger and bigger, and he finds that this hobby can be regarded as his career, so he began to fully devote himself to the construction of 17173. It's just a pity that 17173 didn't develop for long, and 5173 was killed halfway.

Cai Zongjian, who had little money, quickly lost in the competition of 5173.

Originally, it was acquired by Sohu this time, and Cai Zongjian thought that he could quickly kill 5173 with the help of the traffic of the Sohu portal. But before they could make any moves, 5173 quickly killed them.

"Xiao Cai, I investigated 5173, and they don't have much money to smash ads. At most, a week will make them unbearable. ”

"But in this way, we are a little passive, and their advertising words are too shameless, and the first portal of the 5173 game, who is the first and who is second is still unknown. ”

"Don't worry about that, when they can't afford it, our new gaming channel will be officially launched. ”

"Okay. ”

Cai Zongjian nodded, and said: "By the way, Mr. Gu, I heard that 5173 also hit our Sohu with advertisements?"

"Yes, there is such a thing. ”

"Isn't this disgusting, do you still want us to advertise on Sohu?"

"It's disgusting to us. ”

Gu Yongqiang smiled: "However, what is this disgusting, I asked the people in the advertising department to agree." ”

"Ah, Mr. Gu, really advertise them. ”

"The money delivered to the door is not earned in vain. Besides, how long can they last, don't worry, 5173 is just a small website, we Sohu portal shot, can't we destroy a small website?"

patted Cai Zongjian on the shoulder, and Gu Yongqiang drank tea leisurely.