The property manager called the owners who had not yet renovated one by one, and heard that it was Song Weiyang who wanted to buy a house, and the matter was quickly settled.

A coal boss flew over from Jin Province and was willing to sell the villa of nearly 1,400 square meters at a unit price of 28,000 yuan. But he made two requests, one was that he wanted to have a meal with Song Weiyang, and the other was that he wanted to take a photo with Song Weiyang.

Song Weiyang said that it's okay to eat, just take a group photo.

The coal boss readily agreed, and after eating that meal, he took the initiative to reduce the unit price of the villa to 25,000 yuan. This old man is in his 40s, and he opened his mouth and closed his mouth to shout "Teacher Song", and said that he was going to study at Taurus Business School.

A few days later, a beautiful designer named Liu Honglei was invited by Song Weiyantuo's friend.

Liu Honglei graduated from the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University more than 10 years ago, gave up the opportunity to study and went south with her husband to explore the deep city. The couple worked together to run a design firm that designed the interiors of many high-end office buildings and five-star hotels in the Special Economic Zone, and then went on to Canada and the United States for further study.

Liu Honglei came to China to win the award this time, and her design for the Linghai Property Hotel in Dameisha in Shencheng won the award. Song Weiyang called a friend and asked if there were any particularly awesome interior designers in China, and Liu Honglei, who happened to return to China, was recommended to come.

After carefully inspecting the villa, Liu Honglei asked, "What decoration style do Mr. and Mrs. Song want, or what special requirements do you have for the decoration of the villa?"

"You can do whatever you want, I'll give you plenty of room to play. Song Weiyang said.

Lin Zhuoyun thought for a while and said: "It should be very comfortable to live in, not too lonely, and not too vulgar." ”

"I understand," Ms. Liu said, "I usually design for large-scale projects, and I haven't designed a private house for almost a decade." In terms of fees, the unit price must be more expensive, how about 200 yuan per square meter?"

Song Weiyang asked, "Does it include the garden?"

Liu Honglei said: "Sorry, it's just indoors. ”

"Let's do the outdoor design together," Song Weiyang said, "The indoor area of this villa is nearly 1,400 square meters, and the outdoor area is about 1,200 square meters, and the price is 500,000 yuan." ”

Liu Honglei smiled: "Boss Song is really generous. ”

Song Weiyang said: "You need to make the indoor and outdoor as a whole, and you need to have that natural feeling." ”

"Boss Song is in business, do you need me to add feng shui elements?" asked Liu Honglei.

Song Weiyang said: "You still know Feng Shui?"

"I understand a little. Liu Honglei said.

Later, the Hongzhou Edriroyal Garden Hotel in Qiongdao was Liu Honglei in charge of the interior design, and the Yuehuxuan Club in the hotel implied feng shui. The entrance of the clubhouse is located on the west side, which is splendid, which is said to symbolize the wealth of the guests, the north study area is water, quiet and elegant, the south kitchen is naturally fire, the east leisure area is purple from the east, and the main dining room in the middle is the earth element.

This design is known as a classic and is highly sought after in the industry, and guests feel particularly connotative and emotional when they enter the clubhouse.

But in his previous life, Song Weiyang was invited to tea by a friend, and he only entered the club once, so he didn't want to go in a second time.

Song Weiyang likes to read a mess of books, including Feng Shui, and in his opinion, the feng shui of the clubhouse is full of malice for guests: although the door is open to the west, it is located in the middle of the theme building, which is an open Suzaku door for the clubhouse. Huo Kejin, get a lot of gold elements at the Vermilion Bird Gate, and say that the gold element represents the wealth of the guests, is this to refine the wealth of the guests? Aside from the problem of the Vermilion Bird Gate, the West is the main killer, and you still get so many gold elements at the door, do you want to give the guests a stab in the head?

The layout of the other five elements inside the club also made Song Weiyang complain in various ways. I don't know if Liu Honglei doesn't understand feng shui, or if she understands feng shui but deliberately designed it like this, I'm afraid only she knows.

Anyway, Song Weiyang's newly bought big villa, the decoration design will be handed over to Liu Honglei, and there are better designers in China who can be hired than her, and I really can't find a few for the time being.

Lin Zhuoyun is quite positive about this matter, and she and Liu Honglei have kept each other's email addresses so that they can review each other's design plans at any time. At the same time, she also communicated her thoughts about the garden and some indoor arrangements with Liu Honglei repeatedly.

Then Song Weiyang flew to the capital, and the "10th Anniversary Celebration of the China Beverage Industry Association and the China Beverage Festival", which was originally scheduled to be held in May, was postponed to mid-September due to SARS.

Yang Xin is busy with the adjustment of Xifeng's grouping, Chen Tao is also busy with work, and Zheng Xuehong participates in the event on behalf of Xifeng. As for Song Weiyang, he attended more on behalf of individuals, but he was the first to stand up and blow the clarion call for the anti-war in the beverage industry!

Coming to the capital a few days in advance, Song Weiyang walked around several companies he had invested in, and then called Ding Ming and Nie Jun to the courtyard for dinner and party.

"Lao Nie has graduated with a master's degree now, what are you going to do?" Song Weiyang asked as he gnawed on his elbow.

Nie Jun had obviously become much more restrained, dressed exactly like ordinary people, and he didn't have his sword with him. The old man drank a little wine and said, "I will go home in a few days to visit my parents, and then I will go to the south to become a Taoist priest." ”

"Poof!"

Ding Ming directly squirted out a sip of beer and said in surprise: "You want to become a monk?"

Nie Jun shook his head and said: "What I want to join is the Zhengyi faction, strictly speaking, I am not considered a monk, and I can get married and have children if I become a Taoist priest." I have found all the masters, and in a small Taoist temple, I wrote my master's thesis and collected the main materials there. ”

"I thought you were going to join Wudang Mountain. Song Weiyang said with a smile.

Nie Junwei shouted: "I'm not stupid, Wudang Mountain belongs to the Quanzhen faction, once you join the sect, don't think about asking for a wife." ”

Ding Ming had a whim: "Lao Nie, after you become a Taoist, you can open a blog in Sogou to record your monastic life." When the time comes, I will help you recommend it on the homepage, there must be many netizens who like to watch it, so that you can become an Internet celebrity Taoist. ”

"Is there any money to be made?" asked Nie Jun.

Ding Ming said: "When you write more blog posts and become famous enough, I will help you assemble and publish." ”

"Okay, I have free time anyway. Nie Jun said with a smile.

The three chatted nonsense for a while, and Ding Ming suddenly asked Song Weiyang: "Does Old Song know Baidu?"

"Yes. Song Weiyang said.

Ding Ming took out a Chinese cigarette, lit it in his mouth and said: "Baidu has developed rapidly in the past few months, and it has become a threat to Sogou. ”

Song Weiyang was surprised: "I also often surf the Internet, why don't I feel that Baidu is up?"

Ding Ming shook his head and sighed: "It's me who underestimated the enemy, but I didn't expect Baidu to make a crooked move." Due to the first-mover advantage of Sogou search, Baidu has not been able to do it in the first two years, and can only provide search technical support for some websites at the beginning. But because of this, Baidu has business dealings with many websites, and now it has pulled up rogue navigation stations such as 3721 for bundled sales. ”

"I kind of get it. Song Weiyang smiled bitterly.

In the first few years of the 21st century, the number of Chinese netizens was rolling upward. And the vast majority of these new netizens belong to the Internet novices, and the first thing they do when they go online is to open the navigation website. In order to seize the market, those navigation websites often cooperate with computer sellers, computer assemblers, and pirated software vendors, which leads to the following situations: you buy a miscellaneous brand computer, or you assemble the computer yourself, or you buy a pirated version of WIN to reinstall the system, similar to 3721 navigation websites appear on the computer desktop, and you can't delete it with antivirus software!

Last year, 3721 still cooperated with Sogou, but this year it was suddenly co-opted by Baidu. As a result, tens of millions of new netizens, from the first time they went online, naturally used Baidu search, and they didn't know what Sogou search was.

As for why 3721 abandoned Sogou and turned around into the arms of Baidu, it is actually very simple, just one word: money!

3721 uses the Sogou search engine, and needs to pay Sogou technical fees, and they use the Baidu engine, Baidu will pour 3721 promotion fees. Choosing Baidu is not only free, but also makes a lot of money, and fools know how to choose.

Ding Ming said: "Old Song, I need the support of Shenzhou Technology, I hope that the default homepage of Shenzhou Computer is Sogou!"

"Yes," Song Weiyang said, "but you have to talk about those navigation websites as well." ”

Ding Ming said: "I'm doing it. Not only navigation websites, but also those that sell pirated systems, and those that specialize in assembly, I have sent people to contact them. Isn't it just burning money to grab the market?

"How much money does Baidu have now?" Song Weiyang asked.

"I don't know, but there must be nearly 100 million funds," Ding Ming couldn't help but laugh, "According to reliable sources, Google also intends to invest in Baidu, and it is already under negotiation." ”

Song Weiyang frowned and said, "I have to ask about this." ”

Google's investment in Baidu is not because of Song Weiyang's butterfly effect, but because of Baidu's third round of financing in another time and space.

In recent years, the market size of search engines has become larger and larger, and it has become a popular choice for Internet investment. The institutions that invested in Baidu originally wanted to invest in Sogou, but Sogou had no financing plan for the time being, so they set their sights on Baidu, because Li Yanhong is recognized as one of the top three technology masters in the global search field.

Baidu's first round of financing raised more than $1 million, with investors including well-known investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Overture, a global leader in the field of search engines.

Yes, you heard it right, the leader is not Google, but Overture!

In another space, search PPC was invented by Overture. Although Google was the first to launch it by Song Weiyang, Overture quickly followed up with this business model and always pressed Google. The reason for this is that Google is a grassroots rise, while Overture has a deep heritage, with strategic cooperation with many large websites such as Yahoo, MSN, and Infospace.

The current ranking in the search field in the United States is: Overture No. 1, Google No. 2, Yahoo No. 3, and MSN No. 4.

The first, third, and fourth search engines actually have a strategic cooperative relationship, and the search advertisements they receive are all interconnected, and sharing commercial advertising profits together is equivalent to joining forces to encircle and suppress Google - the same is true of another time and space.

Google has been able to emerge from the blue, in addition to its good search technology, thanks to Yahoo, a small investment expert.

Historically, Overture was still the number one in 2003, with 2.5 times more ad revenue than Google. There is a popular saying in American business circles: if a company is founded, it has to do two things. First, register the company. Second, sign up for Overture.

Then Yahoo suddenly bought Overture, and by 2005 it was completely swallowed up by Yahoo, and the two major search engines have since gone to the grave.

The current situation is that Overture, the largest search engine in the United States, wants to enter the Chinese market, but does not have so much energy for the time being, so it invests in Baidu with Goldman Sachs and other institutions. The move sparked interest from DFJ (one of the three largest venture capitalists in the United States), which joined other investment institutions to invest $10 million in Baidu. And DFJ also intends to continue investing, and is now pulling eight companies including Google to participate in Baidu's third round of financing negotiations.

In the eyes of these investors, the United States can accommodate more than 10 large search websites at the same time, and Sogou will definitely not monopolize the Chinese market, Baidu has unparalleled investment value, because Li Yanhong's search technology is too strong!

In the face of a more difficult entrepreneurial situation, Li Yanhong is more urgent than another time and space, if it were not affected by SARS, Baidu's third round of financing is estimated to have been completed.

After sending Ding Ming and Nie Jun away, Song Weiyang called Larry Page directly, and Xingshi asked, "You want to invest in Baidu?"

"yes. Larry Page said.

"Baidu is snatching market share from Sogou, and Sogou is my company!" Mr. Song said angrily.

Larry Page laughs, "Yahoo just invested in Overture, and it's just a normal business investment. Song, a monopoly will only create a monopoly, and the government will not allow this to happen. ”

"China doesn't have an Anti-Monopoly Law!" Mr. Song said.

"Uh...... All right. Larry Page was speechless.

Song Weiyang said: "Immediately withdraw from the financing negotiations with Baidu, this is not a request, this is an order!"

"Although your tone upset me, I accepted it, after all, you are a seed investor in Google and a leader in the Internet industry," Larry Page teased and added, "Song, I must remind you that it doesn't matter if Google participates or not, because DFJ's head of Asia has gone crazy." That guy didn't know anything about the internet, but under the influence of Overture, he had a stronger interest in Baidu than ever before. He firmly believes that the search engine industry will flourish, and even if Baidu can't beat Sogou, as long as it can win 30% of the Chinese market share, it can get a hundredfold return on investment. Without Google, DFJ will bring in others, and I guess Yahoo will be the one who fills the spot. ”

"Why Yahoo?" Song asked.

Larry Page said, "Because Yahoo is rich, as soon as the Internet winter is over, Yahoo will make investments and acquisitions everywhere. To be honest, I have a lot of headaches right now, the search field in the United States is the first in Overture, Yahoo is the third, and now the two are directly combined into one, and they are still eye-to-eye with MSN, which is ranked fourth, do you know how much pressure I have?"

Song Weiyang said: "How did I hear that Microsoft and Google are brewing a cooperation plan?"

"Has this all reached China?" laughed Larry Page, "Microsoft is in a vicious competition with Yahoo, which has just acquired Overture, the number one search engine, and Microsoft wants to buy Google, which is number two." I'm certainly happy to negotiate with Microsoft, preferably to break their alliance. ”

MSN is Microsoft's website, MSN has been a strategic partner with Overture, but now the latter has been acquired by Yahoo, which instantly made Microsoft feel very embarrassed, so it came to seek cooperation with Google. Of course, Larry Page is willing to cooperate with MSN, but who knows that the Microsoft lion has opened his mouth and wants to buy Google directly.

Historically, Larry Page has been dragging his feet, quietly negotiating with Microsoft for acquisition, but secretly planning Google's IPO listing, and suddenly broke through the dilemma of being suppressed by the three companies.

"Song, I was going to tell you later," said Larry Page, "I'm going to take Google public, and now Google is rich, but it's very short. ”

Song Weiyang smiled: "I agree to go public." ”

"You may need to reduce your stake, you know what I mean?" said Larry Page.

"I understand, this is more conducive to the development of Google, after all, I am a Chinese, I have too much equity in Google," Song Weiyang said, "you tell those Wall Street flies that I am very happy to sell Google shares, but I have to wait for Google to go public, and the price may be higher." I have voting rights on those stocks. ”

Larry Page said, "OK, I'll relay your thoughts." ”

"Then I wish Google a smooth IPO. Song Weiyang said.

Larry Page laughed: "We'll all be billionaires then, and even though we're already now, who would have more money?"