Ding Ming recruited 5 programmers to come in, and everyone didn't know much about search engines, so let's start with the database. No matter how many generations of search engines they have, they need to have their own databases, the difference is that the algorithms are becoming more and more "intelligent".

While Ding Ming was presiding over the search engine R&D team, he found himself somewhat marginalized. Zhang Chaoyang arranged another assistant, although it was not as easy to use as Ding Ming, but at least he would not oppose his decision.

Ding Ming called Song Weiyang and shouted: "Brother Yang, what do you think of Zhang, are you afraid that I will take away his power?"

"It shouldn't be this reason," Song Weiyang said helplessly, "It's mostly a search engine project, and you made him feel unpleasant." He was a very assertive man, and he thought highly of himself, and he could not tolerate dissent. ”

"What then?" Ding Ming said, "I don't want to have a conflict with him." ”

Song Weiyang said: "You start the search engine project first. During the summer vacation, I went to Beijing to hold a general meeting of shareholders to formalize the company's authority. When the time comes, he will be the general manager and you will be the vice president. In the future, each project of the company must be arranged with a full-time person in charge, and the general manager and vice president must try to delegate their powers, and major problems must be discussed and solved at a meeting. Zhang Chaoyang's grasp of everything is very unscientific, and it will also do more harm than good to the company's development. ”

Ding Ming said: "This contradiction will be even greater. ”

"Let's give it a try, if Zhang Chaoyang doesn't know convergence yet, then I will consider changing the general manager. Song Weiyang said.

Ding Ming also said: "The search engine project has been working on databases now, and there is no breakthrough in algorithms. I asked Brother Pony and Brother Leizi, and they said that the most practical search engine now is Infoseek (search information), the algorithm is relatively intelligent, and it can exclude a lot of irrelevant content. I organized a manual analysis of Infoseek's algorithms, but this was a trade secret and I didn't know what to do. ”

"Take your time," advises Song, "and try poaching a technical employee at Infoseek." ”

Ding Ming smiled bitterly: "I can't dig it, Infoseek's core engineers, their annual salaries are more than the assets of our entire company." ”

Song Weiyang said: "Don't worry, insist on research and development, I will pay for it." ”

Li Yanhong, the future founder of Baidu, is one of Infoseek's core engineers at this time, and his personal assets far exceed those of Sohu at this stage.

Mr. Li, who owns more than 700,000 options in a Dow Jones subsidiary, was acquired in exchange for IT (real-time financial information systems) and spent several years on Wall Street after graduating. He also has luxury villas and famous cars in Silicon Valley, and his wife Ma Dongmin is an American doctor who graduated from the junior class of the National People's University and also works in high-tech companies in Silicon Valley.

A young man from an ordinary family in a small Chinese town, who was mixed like this before the age of 30, even if he did not founded Baidu later, he could already be regarded as a successful person.

In fact, since 1995, Li Yanhong has returned to China every year to inspect the Internet market. He has always had the idea of starting his own business, but his career in the United States was too smooth, which made it difficult for Robin Li to give up, and he couldn't give up everything to return to China to start again.

If it weren't for the short-sighted Infoseek executives, who had to transform into a portal without the bright prospects of the search field, there would be nothing to do with Google after that, and Robin Li would probably not have resigned and returned to China to found Baidu.

By the way, at next summer's International World Wide Web Conference, Robin Li, as a top search engine expert, will be invited to attend and give a speech.

According to Tim Bonas Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, it was at that World Wide Web conference that the two founders of Google listened carefully to Li Yanhong's speech and asked Li Yanhong for technical advice after the meeting. A month later, Google was founded, but the Page rank patent was not approved by the U.S. Patent Office until three years later because of the similarity between the technology and Robin Li's patent for hyperlink analysis.

Therefore, some people say that Google borrowed or stole Li Yanhong's search technology when it was first founded - in fact, the focus is different, and Google has further expanded and improved on the basis of Li Yanhong's patent. Google's patent application is the more complete part, which in turn is even more awesome than Li Yanhong, who later caught up through the "lightning plan".

Li Yanhong chose to return to China to found Baidu, firstly because he was angry with Infoseek executives, secondly because he was stimulated by Google, and secondly because he was instigated by his wife Ma Dongmin.

Every time Li Yanhong struggled to make a choice, his wife was behind the scenes. Returning to China to start a business, Baidu bidding ranking is like this, this wife is worthy of being a prodigy from the junior class of the National People's Congress.

But Li Yanhong himself has all the qualities of success, he is just the opposite of Zhang Chaoyang, he sees one thing and sticks to it to the end, and completely delegates power to the people below. In this way, employees can be exercised and developed, as long as the general direction is good, the boss is good, and if you do it wrong, it is the employee's problem.

Zhang Chaoyang was reluctant to delegate power, and when he encountered difficulties, he took a detour, and it was difficult to persevere to the end. All projects are done, and no projects are in-depth, and it is difficult for employees to give full play to their talents, and the boss has to take the blame if something goes wrong.

Therefore, in the eyes of employees, Li Yanhong is unfathomable and difficult to deal with, but the company can make the best use of its talents, and Zhang Chaoyang is very good at talking and loves him, but the senior employees all run away in the end.

At the critical moment, Li Yanhong dared to slap the table with investors. At the time of the Internet bubble, American investors did not agree to do bidding rankings, Li Yanhong directly lost his temper and cursed, and those investors finally compromised: "We agree with your idea, not because it has a future, but because of your attitude." ”

As for Zhang Chaoyang, when faced with investors, he sought satisfaction with all kinds of grievances and constantly made concessions.

For Song Weiyang, people like Zhang Chaoyang are better controlled, and a scolding when they are disobedient is enough.

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In June, Sohu's webpage and chat rooms had amazing traffic, which actually attracted Wall Street investors to take the initiative to contact. The Yankees valued Sohu at $3 million, which is about 26 million yuan, which is equivalent to Song Weiyang's investment several times in a year.

Zhang Chaoyang planned to accept a $2 million financing, but was directly rejected by Song Weiyang, and said: "If the money is not enough, I will give it, take the normal financing route, and the shares should be calculated!"

Zhang Chaoyang could only say: "Let's talk about it at the end of the year, the company's funds can still last." ”

As for Ding Ming's search engine R&D team, they still have nothing to do, so they can only honestly improve the database. It wasn't until Li Yanhong's hyperlink analysis patent was approved by the U.S. Patent Office in July and the patent was disclosed in September that Ding Ming finally realized: That's how it was!

But even if the patent is disclosed, it does not mean that the core technology is put on the table, and others can only see the scale and half of the claw from the patent documents. There are also stemming techniques mentioned in patent documents, which are only of great use in English hyperlink texts, and can only be used for reference in Chinese.

Li Yanhong is a big bull, and the shrimp soldiers and crab generals recruited by Ding Ming honestly follow the technical direction of others. This research took several months, and after basically understanding it, I began to study the practical application of Chinese websites.

As for Xifeng, the 101 plan has begun to close the network on a large scale, and has successively withdrawn the signing authority of regional partners. Those regional partners will either become Xifeng's neighborhood distributors or Xifeng's salesmen, and there is no third option.

The thugs at Shenghai Railway Station still wanted to resist, and even threatened to make Xifeng products extinct in the area of the railway station.

Xifeng did not hesitate at all, directly stopped the supply, and at the same time started negotiations, and these guys immediately relented. After all, harmony makes money, and there is money to be made, so why make such a fuss?

As a result, the company formed by the gangsters was split in two. Part of it cooperates with Xifeng to establish a distribution station, which covers the area around the railway station and allows some younger brothers to specialize in contract terminal delivery, and part of it becomes a branch of Xifeng Shenghai Sales Branch, which is responsible for the business promotion of the railway station and the surrounding areas.

In this way, the thugs' career management is more in place, and they make more money, but the financial and personnel management rights are handed over to Xifeng.

The gangsters are very happy, they have become the regional leaders of Xifeng Company, they have money and status, and they no longer have to worry and fear. Deal with the disobedient little brother, handle it directly according to the rules, and there is nothing that can't wipe off the face.

Even, the gangsters handed over the illegal business of the train station to their henchmen to take care of. When the younger brother took the blame, they sat and took a rake, until one day the younger brother turned against the water and finally went ashore completely.

Dealers of Jianlibao, Coca-Cola and other companies continue to report the gangsters for bullying and dominating the market. The police couldn't bear the pressure, and they couldn't catch the evidence, so they interviewed the gangsters several times, and finally got angry and came up with a comprehensive rectification action, which made the gangsters suffer heavy losses, and the beverage market at Shenghai Railway Station finally became normal, and it was no longer a pattern of Xifeng's monopoly.

In the next few years, two of these gangsters were imprisoned, one was killed by the enemy, and the rest were completely whitewashed, resolutely refusing to touch illegal business. One of the gangsters even became the general manager of the Xifeng Shenghai sales branch, and he was promoted completely by real performance.

Throughout the first half of the year, Soros has been stirring up trouble in Thailand, and Song Weiyang's Taurus Capital has drunk a lot of soup.

Before the Thai baht was completely exploded, "The Three-Body Problem" had already exploded on the Internet, and major chat rooms and BBS stations in China reprinted it one after another, and some people even forwarded this film to Huayuan.com in the United States.

(Tomorrow will resume two more, and the chapters with less will be slowly made up.) ）

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