After a year of development, Sohu, which has only four people, has grown to a scale of 18 employees.

And the little fat man Ding Ming has also become a medium fat man. He didn't make much progress in his IT skills because he had so much to do every day that he didn't have time to delve into technical issues.

This guy has been exposed to it since he was a child, and he hasn't learned much about doing business, but he has learned a lot from his father when dealing with people. He is now Zhang Chaoyang's full-time assistant, responsible for the company's daily affairs, up and down, left and right, and developing in the direction of management skills specialization.

The funniest thing is that Ding Ming's temper has become bigger, and he used to have no conflict with anyone at school.

No way, Zhang Chaoyang is a good gentleman and never scolds and punishes employees. Since the boss is singing red face, Ding Ming, the second child, has to sing white face, otherwise the company will definitely make a mess.

So now Ding Ming's nickname in the company is "Smiling Tiger", and he usually talks about jokes, but suddenly turns his face. If anyone makes a mistake, Ding Ming can call someone to count them for an hour or two, and then supervise the mistake maker throughout the process to correct it.

It's just that when this product is not angry, it looks very kind and considerate. He remembers every employee's birthday, and he pays out of his own pocket to buy a birthday cake, which always brings surprises and touches to people. If an employee coughs twice, Ding Ming will buy cold medicine in minutes, and remind the other party to drink more hot water and rest more.

Over the past year, employees have respected and feared Ding Ming, and their personal prestige has been established.

On the contrary, Zhang Chaoyang, the general manager, is loved by the employees, but at the same time, they inevitably have a contempt mentality. Employees can joke unscrupulously with Zhang Chaoyang, and even be lazy under Zhang Chaoyang's nose, because everyone knows that Zhang Chaoyang has a very good temper, and if he makes a mistake, he will scold at most.

In this way, Zhang Chaoyang actually developed a sense of dependence on Ding Ming's assistant. After assigning tasks, he asked Ding Ming to arrange them, employees made mistakes, and he asked Ding Ming to deal with them, and even at company dinners, Ding Ming was asked to pick a restaurant to order food - because Ding Ming knew which employee liked to eat what.

Zhang Chaoyang feels so good, he only needs to grasp the overall situation and the general direction, and any trivial matters can be handed over to the assistant to solve.

Ding Ming feels so tired, a hundred times more tired than reading, he seems to care about everything, but he has to take care of everything. Now he can only sleep a few hours a day, everyone else is resting, and he still has to think about preparing for tomorrow's work plan, and he has gained more than ten pounds in a year.

Just two months ago, Ding Ming contracted the spring flu, coupled with long-term fatigue, he lay in bed for a week before relieving himself.

That week was nothing good for Zhang Chaoyang, and he was annoyed by the fact that he was angry in the company for the first time in the world. Employees also quickly discovered that without the dead fat man who always likes to talk about it, their work efficiency has diminished exponentially, and the "smiling tiger" is so important to the company.

Early in the morning, Ding Ming relied on his father's big brother to have no caller ID function, and called from the company's landline: "Hey, Dad, it's me." ”

"You kid still remember to call me? I said that I would call at the beginning of every month, and this is the 12th!" Father Ding said, "I'll send you money, buy a mobile phone immediately, and a BP machine will also do, so that I can't usually contact you." ”

Ding Ming smiled and said: "I really don't need to, using luxury goods in school has a bad impact." ”

Father Ding said, "How is studying?"

"Well, yesterday the teacher praised me. Ding Ming said nonsense.

"Remember to have a good relationship with your classmates, make more friends, and I'll send you money when the money is not enough." Father Ding instructed.

"I know, I know," Ding Ming said, "Don't send me money, I made hundreds of thousands of dollars last year with Song Weiyang to speculate in stocks." ”

Father Ding said: "That Boss Song in your dormitory, you must have a good relationship." You have become a good buddy with him, and you will not have to worry about it in this life, and after graduation, you will come back to inherit the factory, and maybe you can do business with Xifeng Company. ”

Ding Ming said: "Yes, yes, I have a very good relationship with Song Weiyang, Dad, you can rest assured." ”

The father and son chatted for a while, and Ding Ming saw Zhang Chaoyang coming, and hurriedly said, "Dad, I'm going to class, hang up first." ”

"Study hard, make progress every day, and make more friends. "Daddy Ding is still instructing.

"Goodbye!" Ding Ming hurriedly hung up.

Zhang Chaoyang smiled: "Are you lying to your father again? ”

Ding Ming shook his head again and again: "My dad is from the countryside, and I am the first college student in the village." If he had known that I had dropped out of school, he would have flown over and broken my leg. ”

"Let's go, let's have a meeting. Zhang Chaoyang said.

The company has to hold a meeting every day to discuss the content of the day's hyperlinks, and now it is mainly done for people's hyperlinks, and the proportion of Huayuan.com has declined.

In the entire 1997 Chinese Internet site, the largest traffic is not Sohu, nor Sitong Lifang, nor NetEase, which has just been established, but - People's Daily Online!

After Ma Xiaoyun helped "People's X Daily" create People's Daily Online, this website was launched on January 1 and has been revised four times in ten months, with contents: overseas edition, East China Board, Market Daily, Global Times, News Front, Humor and Irony, Earth, Times Tide, etc., and even securities and financial sectors.

In terms of content, People's Daily Online is the richest, and in terms of scale, People's Daily Online is also the largest.

In 11 months, People's Daily Online received more than 40 million visits, with an average of 400,000 visits per day. If this were a commercial website, it is estimated that Wall Street investors would have been waving money to talk about cooperation.

Although Sohu claims to be China's largest commercial Internet site, it is also trembling when facing People's Daily Online, and it is unswervingly a thief every day - from People's Daily Hyperlink News.

"Yang is always good!"

"Ding is always good!"

Employees greeted one after another.

Among the 18 employees, 1 is in charge of finance, 1 is in charge of technical maintenance, 1 is in charge of advertising business, and the rest are all content editors. Among these content editors, there are also several technical talents, who often work with Zhang Chaoyang to do odd jobs - helping customers build websites.

"Mr. Zhang, the chat room we just opened is on fire," said the content editor who is also in charge of the chat room, "The four chat rooms have all reached the upper limit of the number of people. You'll have to add more people to me, and you'll have to increase the maximum number of people in the chat room, or I won't be able to handle it. ”

Zhang Chaoyang said in a daze: "I watched it last night, and there are no ghosts in the chat room." ”

The man said: "A netizen wrote a book called "The Three-Body Problem", which was serialized in our chat room, and many people came from Sitong to read it. ”

"The Three-Body Problem?" Zhang Chaoyang was even more confused.

Ding Ming said with a smile: "That netizen is Boss Song, and "The Three-Body Problem" is a science fiction story he conceived before. ”

Zhang Chaoyang suddenly realized: "It turns out that this is his way to increase the popularity of the chat room." ”

"Which Boss Song?"

"Of course it's our big boss Song Weiyang!"

"I thought "The Three-Body Problem" was written by a science student. ”

"Boss Song is awesome!"

“……”

Seeing that the employees were getting older and more lively, Ding Ming suddenly coughed: "Everyone rest assured, please ask Mr. Zhang to preside over today's meeting." ”

The employees immediately shut up, and Zhang Chaoyang said: "I won't discuss the content of hyperlinks today, I plan to recruit a few more people in, and then assign a group of people to work exclusively on search engines." ”

"How many people are enough?" Ding Ming asked.

"That's enough," Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile, "Yahoo's search engine, two people can do it, why can't we? This year, the Internet exploded, and there are already hundreds of World Wide Web sites in China, and this number is likely to double by the end of the year." With more and more online content, it's a great time to be a search engine. ”

Ding Ming asked, "Are you going to make a first-generation search engine like Yahoo?"

"yes. Zhang Chaoyang said.

"I think the second-generation search engine is more promising," Ding Ming said, "and there is more and more content on the Internet, and it will definitely be more and more difficult to provide search targets for netizens in catalog-based searches." Recently, when I searched for foreign content on Yahoo, I often couldn't find what I was looking for, but the latest version of ebCrale was better to use. ”

Zhang Chaoyang shook his head and said: "The second-generation search engine results contain a lot of irrelevant content. I've used it too, and it's harder to use than the first generation, and sometimes it doesn't even have a single useful content. ”

Historically, Sohu, like Yahoo, did the first generation of search engines, which was officially launched in February 1998. It's a catalog, a manually created database, and you can't find anything outside of the database. Later, with the rise of Baidu, Sohu hurriedly followed up and developed Sogou Search (the third generation of search engine).

Ding Ming thought for a while and said, "I have an idea, I don't know if it's feasible." That is, when users use the second-generation search engine, they use technology to intelligently filter out irrelevant content and display only useful content. ”

"This ...... It is estimated that it is difficult to achieve, or it is more realistic to do the first generation of search engines. Zhang Chaoyang said.

Ding Ming wanted to speak and stopped, he didn't know what to say, he was a beginner in technology and had no right to speak. But in terms of daily use, he feels that the existing catalog-based search must be obsolete, because Yahoo search is becoming more and more laborious, and with the increase of Internet content, Yahoo search can collapse people.

Zhang Chaoyang saw that Ding Ming seemed to have an opposing opinion, and he smiled: "Vote, please raise your hand if you do a catalog-style search." ”

Brush brush brush, unanimously passed, except for Ding Ming.

After the meeting ended, Ding Ming found Zhang Chaoyang and suggested, "Why don't we call and ask Lao Song?"

"He doesn't understand technology, so ask him what he does?" Zhang Chaoyang laughed.

"You can listen to his opinion, anyway, there is no shortage of those phone bills. Ding Ming said.

Zhang Chaoyang said: "Then you fight." ”

Ding Ming quickly dialed the phone and explained the situation: "Brother Yang, we are going to be a search engine. The first generation belongs to catalog-based search, which can only search for content in the database, and cannot be found outside the database, and this search engine has a great bottleneck in development. The second generation belongs to the whole network keyword search, which does not need to manually make a complete database, but always searches for a large amount of irrelevant content, and the user experience is very bad. Which do you think is better?"

"Second generation. Song Weiyang made a choice directly.

Zhang Chaoyang hurriedly said: "Boss Song, the second-generation technology is not perfect. ”

Song Weiyang said: "Then recruit people to improve." Is it enough to set up a search engine R&D team with 1 million yuan a year?"

Zhang Chaoyang said: "I don't know, maybe it's a bottomless pit. ”

"That's 1 million in the first year," Song Weiyang said, "You recruit people to do it, and I will pay for it." Rest assured, the money will not dilute your shares, count me as a personal sponsor. ”

"I ...... All right. Zhang Chaoyang reluctantly agreed.

Zhang Chaoyang is an entrepreneur who will not refuse people, not to mention that Song Weiyang is still a major shareholder, he doesn't want to have conflicts because of this matter. Moreover, Song Weiyang also paid out of his own pocket, which made it even more difficult for Zhang Chaoyang to object.

However, Zhang Chaoyang did not approve of this project from the bottom of his heart, and he was quite resentful. He even wanted to leave it alone, recruit people to fend for themselves, and what results he could develop was all up to God's will.

Rubbing his face, Zhang Chaoyang said to Ding Ming: "You are fully responsible for the search engine project, you can ask me if you have any technical problems." ”

"Good. Ding Ming knew that there was a conflict between him and Zhang Chaoyang. I only hope that this contradiction can be slowly repaired.

Ding Ming immediately went to arrange the recruitment plan, and in front of Zhang Chaoyang, he said to all the employees: "Mr. Zhang has changed his mind, he has already thought of a solution from the technical point of view, so he plans to develop a second-generation search engine." Let us applaud Mr. Zhang, under the wise leadership of Mr. Zhang, Sohu will definitely become the best Internet company in the world!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Many employees applauded in confusion.

Zhang Chaoyang could only shake his head and smile bitterly, he knew that Ding Ming was saving face for him, so it was not good to be angry, but he couldn't hold back his resentment.

Song Weiyang's thoughts at this time are: Is this to strangle Baidu in the egg state?