I haven't been to China for a year or two, and it's changed a lot. Not to mention www.biquge.info various high-rise buildings, there are a lot more cars in the city than the year before. On the way to Zhongguancun, Henry was still stuck in traffic, and the traffic situation in Beijing really needs to be improved. It took more than an hour to drive half an hour before Henry arrived at Baidu's headquarters.

At this time, after learning the news that Henry was coming, Robin Li had already waited downstairs in the building with the company's executives.

"Mr. Williams, you're here!" Robin Li stepped forward and greeted.

"What's polite," Henry smiled at Robin Li, "Let's go, I haven't seen what Baidu's headquarters looks like." ”

"Good!"

The group walked into the building.

The sixth floor of the building, called "Zhongguancun Science and Technology Building", is the temporary headquarters of Baidu.

After Henry walked into Baidu, Baidu's employees greeted him respectfully, but they couldn't hold back their curiosity and looked at Henry. In the past, I could only see Henry Williams in newspapers, TV, and on the Internet, but now I can see real people up close, so I am not excited!!

Henry observed that the company had no less than a hundred employees, most of whom were programmers.

Later, Henry came to Robin Li's office and talked to him. Previously, Henry raised $10 million for Baidu, and with this money, Baidu can last for a long time, and it is growing much faster than before. At this time, the environment of China's Internet has been "smoky miasma" caused by the hooligan behavior of 3721 "tied up and uninstalled", and Baidu and the NIC website that focuses on general URL services have joined the battlefield one after another, thus causing "anger and resentment" among Chinese netizens.

Henry came to China to invest this time, and by the way, he planned for Baidu's future development.

"Robin Li, who has more development potential than Baidu and 3721?" asked Henry, sitting on a chair on the coffee table, drinking Longjing tea.

"Baidu's development potential is even greater!" Robin Li said in a very confident tone, "3721 attaches importance to marketing, and Baidu attaches importance to technology research and development. At present, although 3721 occupies more market share than Baidu, but Baidu will catch up sooner or later!3721 gives users a very poor experience, and the search content is often in the opposite direction, and their market share is supported by various advertising bundling and software that cannot be uninstalled. Actually, users don't like to use it. On the contrary, Baidu's user experience is very good, and it has cultivated a lot of determined users!"

Henry nodded, "That being said, sometimes bad money drives out good money......

"Yes, but Baidu's market share has been rising steadily, and then we got 10 million dollars of investment, we decided to spend more than 2 million US dollars on ICQ, NetEase, Sina, Sohu and other Chinese software and websites with relatively large traffic to advertise and publicize, the effect is very obvious, and the market share has been increased by 8.7%! Today, Baidu has occupied a quarter of the market in China's search field!"

When Robin Li said this, he paid special attention to Henry's expression, China's Internet is a zero-sum market, one side increases, and the other party will naturally decrease. Naturally, Baidu's market share has increased, which means that the market share of isearch search will decrease!

Henry's expression did not change, but he could see Robin Li's careful thoughts. Henry took a sip of tea, put the cup on the coffee table, then raised his head and looked at Robin Li, "You know, I have isearch search under my name, but do you know why I still invest in Baidu?"

Robin Li shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

Henry smiled: "Actually, it's very simple, in the Chinese idiom, it's 'three holes of cunning rabbits'." If isearch fails in China, isn't there still Baidu?" Henry paused, turned his eyes to look at the birds flying outside the window, and muttered, "The Chinese government needs to grasp the power of public opinion on the Internet and block the truth, and the principle of isearch is 'do not do evil', and the truth is what it is, so that the people have the right to know." isearch is like a bird flying outside, uninhibited, free to soar in the sky!"

When Robin Li heard this, he immediately understood. Chinese government officials have also approached Baidu and asked Baidu to block some content from its search. Baidu's attitude, on the other hand, is that the government will do whatever it says, and everything will be done according to the organization's orders. Naturally, Baidu has won the favor of the Chinese government and has received strong support from the government!

In Robin Li's view, isearch's approach is purely stupid, since you have come to China, you have to abide by China's rules, and if you don't follow the rules, China will implicitly ask you to go......

Of course, Robin Li would not directly say that isearch's move was a stupid act in front of Henry, but he was a little proud and happy in his heart. Of course, he wouldn't remind Henry, and he even wished that iSearch would still go its own way, so that it would be on the same page as the Chinese government. And the Chinese government gives it small shoes from time to time, and must not force isearch to withdraw from the Chinese market?

3721 is like a rat crossing the street, everyone shouts and beats, Robin Li does not pay attention to it, but isearch is Baidu's henchman! If isearch is not defeated, how can Baidu dominate the field of Internet search in China?

"Mr. Williams, aren't you just here to visit Baidu today? Is there something else?" Robin Li deliberately changed the topic and stopped talking about isearch so as not to remind Henry.

"Oh, I'm here to inform you that 3721 may be acquired by Time Warner-AOL!"

"3721 is going to be acquired by Time Warner-AOL?" Robin Li couldn't help but repeat, his face looking shocked. 3721 is only a small company compared to Time Warner-AOL, and Baidu is naturally not afraid to compete with it. But with Time Warner AOL, the pressure on Baidu will inevitably increase! At present, iSearch is walking on the road to death, and Robin Li is secretly refreshed. I never thought that another large international company would enter the Chinese market......

"Yes, Time Warner-AOL officially launched an acquisition invitation to 3721 three days ago, and Zhou Hongyi means that he intends to sell 3721 company!" Henry nodded.

"3721 is developing rapidly, why did Zhou Hongyi choose to sell it?" Robin Li shook his head, puzzled, if it was him, he would definitely not want to sell it!

When Henry heard this, he couldn't help laughing: "Zhou Hongyi has now been dubbed the 'father of rogue software' by Chinese netizens and peers, which is really not good, and he always says that he wants to 'bleach'...... Of course, this is not the main reason, although 3721 is spurned, but the high market share is an indisputable fact, so in the first quarter of 2001, 3721 has achieved profitability! The main reason for Zhou Hongyi to give up 3721 is actually Baidu and NIC, it is you who have brought a lot of pressure to Zhou Hongyi, especially NIC with Chinese official background. You know, in China, since ancient times, the people don't fight with the officials, and Zhou Hongyi is scared......"

(I have a cold in the past two days, and I feel much better when I go to the hospital to get hanging water, and I will return to normal updates tomorrow.) ）

(To be continued.) )