Baidu has been preparing for internationalization since 06, but at that time it was not Zhou Shi's responsibility. Progress was slow, and until Time Friends and Twitter gained a foothold in Japan, Baidu still did not make much progress. There are many reasons for this, such as Yahoo and Google, which each account for more than 90 percent of the Japanese search market, and other unknown sites like Baidu are rarely used.

In 08, Baidu hired Yahoo Japan's search business head Inoue Shunichi as the president of Baidu Japan, and at the beginning of 07, he invested hundreds of millions of soft sister coins to purchase servers, and invited Nobuyuki Idei, the former chairman of Sony, to become an independent director of Baidu.

What's even more infuriating is that Zhou Shi's time and friend networks have risen one after another, and most of the top-ranking websites in Japan are related to Zhou Shi, such as YouTube, Twitter, Amazon, it can be said that in addition to Yahoo, Google and Facebook, there are several local websites in Japan, and the rest are related to Zhou Shi.

"How did Friends promote it in Japan?" asked Robin Lee, eager for knowledge

"I really don't know about China, Europe, the United States, and Japan. Zhou Shi said apologetically that he really didn't have much impression of Japan's Friends Network, especially after promoting the cross-shareholding of Friends Network and demarcating the sphere of influence, he didn't have much time and energy to pay attention to Japan's development. That is, when Guoke needs to be promoted, it is specially advertised by friends and Time.com.

"I'm sincere in asking you for advice. Robin Lee was dissatisfied, he put down his frame and took the initiative to ask Zhou Shi for advice, but he didn't get a satisfactory answer.

"Do you think I have time to pay attention to Japan's Friends Network? In addition to letting Friends pay more attention to Japan's two-dimensional culture at the beginning, as well as localized operations, giving them more power and more checks and balances, I really don't know, I haven't read their reports, and I don't even know if there is a big gap between Friends.com and Facebook Japan!" Zhou Shi

"Robin, it's useless to ask like this, it's not that you don't know, he has always made his own decisions and let others do it. Baidu CFO Wang Zhansheng said

"Hey~~" Robin Lee shook his head and didn't speak

"Simon, what do you think of Baidu's internationalization?" Wang Zhansheng, "What do you think Baidu's internationalization route should be?"

"Baidu's internationalization?" Zhou Shi looked at them with some surprise, Galaxy Capital can have a stake in Baidu, and the internationalization plan was in the previous board meeting, is it going to change now?

"Is Baidu's internationalization the internationalization of search engines or Baidu's internationalization, and the initial purpose is market share or profit?"

"Does it make any difference?" said Robin Lee

"The difference is very big, Baidu is an Internet company, and the search engine is the core product of Baidu at this stage, but with the change of the times, this may not necessarily change, if you limit your attention to the field of search engine, it will limit the development of the company. "Zhou Shi

"Is Baidu still Baidu without a search engine?"

"IBM is a living example of this, and there are many other companies that can prove that even if their main business has changed a lot, the company is still great," Zhou Shi

"But Baidu can't do without search now!" Wang Zhansheng

"That's right, but if you admit that search engines aren't Baidu's only option, the rest will be much easier. "Zhou Shi

"If you have to develop a search engine, there's still a way!" said Robin Lee

"Yes, but it doesn't have to work. "Zhou Shi

"What's the solution?" said Robin Lee

"Mobile Internet!" Zhou Shi said seriously, "Users are spending more and more time surfing the Internet through Guoke mobile phones, and mobile will be the trend of the future, but how to adapt to this trend, even the friend network has not found a suitable method." "Zhou Shi

"The market size of the mobile Internet will not be very large, and it will take so many years for the popularization of PCs to take so long, how long will it take for the popularity of smartphones?"

"It depends on how fast smartphone sales grow!" Zhou Shi

Speaking of smartphones, the scene was suddenly embarrassing, at the beginning, Zhou Shi actually wanted to do it with several bosses of Baidu, after all, he had no experience. It's a pity that no one took a fancy to his idea, and even cloud computing had to be developed by Zhou Shi first, and then transformed later. If Zhou Shi did not leave Baidu, would the husk become Baidu's husk? This has led to many excellent technical personnel in Baidu flowing to friends of time, such as Yu Jun, the technical director of Baidu Tieba in the past, joined the core department of Friends: the growth team.

At this time, friends of time are actually on a par with Baidu, but because Baidu's market capitalization ranking is the first in China and the top five in the world, after Google, Amazon and Yahoo, Tengxun Penguin has been hit many times, regardless of market size or profit data, it is very different from the previous life. Specifically, a large part of the profits of Tengxun were divided between Time Games and Friends.com. Of course, time friends plus penguins are definitely much bigger and stronger than the penguins in the previous life, at least in the game, the friend network basically has independent intellectual property rights, don't share it with others. And there is also overseas game income, time egame game platform has helped domestic companies expand the overseas game market, barely has more than one-third of the market size of steam, and it is also considered competitive in several major game markets (Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States).

"Simon, can Time Browser be bound to Baidu Search!" Wang Zhansheng didn't bother with his smartphone, and directly asked what he wanted to ask at the beginning.

"Unless Baidu's market share in the local market is more than 30 percent, at least 25 percent, it's not possible. Zhou Shi listened without any fluctuations and said the basic conditions for cooperation.

Under the operation of Pichai, the development speed of Time Browser is no worse than that of the previous life, and the global user scale of Friends ensures that the browser has sufficient exposure, and although the user data and global market share do not exceed Firefox, it also has a market size of more than 7%, and the development exceeds expectations. As for the market share of UC browser in the third-party browser on the mobile terminal, it ranks second in the world, mainly because of the amazing sales of iPhones and the number of Safari browser users is higher than that of UC.

"Why not find Firefox, their trial production share is high, at this time Firefox has a market share of 24%, compared with Time Browser is a better choice. "Zhou Shi

"Similar to your reason, Baidu search needs to have greater development," Wang Zhansheng

Zhou Shi also understood when he heard that the development of browsers is very difficult, and it is easy to lose, and it is possible to lose the fundamentals of cooperating with a search engine that has not been tested by the market or has been eliminated in the market competition.

(End of chapter)