Yahoo's Flickr now has far more users and uploads more images than Instagram, but historically, those numbers are quickly turned upside down. Even now it is difficult for Zhou Shi to change this trend, and most of Flickr's user base is professionals, very demanding, but does not create value.

"What do you think we should do?" Zhou Shi asked Brett Taylor, after this period of contact, Zhou Shi found that he was indeed very thoughtful, and more importantly, young and obedient.

"I think you're missing a product manager trainer!" said Brett Taylor

"Yes, Yahoo has a group of very smart people, but it's a pity that the strength is not used in the right place. But it's hard to find a good product manager, let alone someone who trains them. "Zhou Shi

"I have a great candidate, Marisa Mayer from Google, who grew up with the training of project managers at Google. "Brett Taylor

"Marissa Mayer, yes, but will she come where we are now? Know that AI and mobility are our general direction, and they will not change because of her. "Zhou Shi

"I'm going to ask first! Marissa is said to have run into a ceiling at Google!" "Although Brett Taylor has left Google, he still has friends in it and knows some gossip.

"Okay, but there's no rush for the Flickr revision, but the Flickr free thing can't be delayed, and there should be no problem relaxing the capacity limit to 1G!" Zhou Shi

"No problem, we can handle it!" Brett Taylor

"Then let's do it first, notify me when there is news!" Zhou Shi

Yahoo is a company of tens of thousands of people, Zhou Shi himself is not good at management, specific things must rely on outsiders, what can be changed is the headquarters of the matter, as for the branches around the world, he can do nothing. He is not a genius like Zuckerberg, let alone Zuckerberg's insidiousness, and many things cannot be done. The reborn prophet cultivated his habit of crushing people with great power and crushing his opponents with yang schemes. If Yahoo can complete intelligent mobility, even if the product starts to be a little worse, I believe it will have good results through continuous iteration and personnel adjustment. Lei Jun's tuyere theory is not unreasonable, but too many people say this, and too much emphasis is counterproductive. In the final analysis, it is still a matter of trend, and Zhou Shi knows the trend better than anyone now.

Yahoo's version of Toutiao is still operating silently, without showing any relationship with Yahoo, but with the increase in news content, the improvement of recommendation methods, and the use of information flow, coupled with the favoritism of Time Android, the growth rate is gratifying. Toutiao's use of information flow is certain, and only information flow is the most effective tool for loading ads on mobile, and it does the least harm to user experience. As for Yahoo News, some adjustments have also been made, but insisting on manual recommendations has prompted them to increase the frequency of news placement, and the flow of information is also a problem they must consider.

Seeing that Toutiao and Yahoo News are more and more in line with his own requirements, Zhou Shi is finally relieved. Yahoo's three core AI and search, news, instant messaging, and short image videos are all arranged. Well, it doesn't seem to say that the search is this piece, the question is very simple, why does Zhou Shi have the courage to implement AllInAI in Yahoo, Yahoo is not a company without a background, and the current Yahoo Research Institute is a very powerful research institution. Founded in July 2005, Yahoo Research was one of the first companies to recognize the need to apply basic research, especially machine learning and artificial intelligence research, to real products. Its main director, Osama Fiard, has worked at NASA and Microsoft Research, and in 1995 held the first KDD conference (FirstInternationalConferenceonKnoledgeDiscoveryinData) in Montreal, Canada. Since then, KDD has become the premier conference for data mining, data science, and applied machine learning. He is also a leading figure in the field of data mining, and is the first chief data officer in the history of Yahoo and the Internet.

Under the auspices of Usama Fiard, Yahoo's research institute was established, and Prabhaka Ragawan was invited to become its director. This person is a well-known scholar, a member of the ACM, IEEE, and the American Academy of Engineering.

Yahoo Research has also published a series of valuable research results, which have established its reputation for academic research in a very short period of time. It has won a series of influential best paper awards, covering search, advertising, recommender systems, data mining, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and many other aspects. It is precisely because of the establishment of this research institute that Zhou Shi has the confidence to promote Yahoo Brain, otherwise starting from scratch, what do you think is a pig's foot?

Yahoo Research is also the first company to use machine learning to improve the search quality of search engines, and it can be said that in terms of technology, this declining company has more scientific research talents than all individual Chinese Internet companies at this stage. Even the time spent most invested in talent can't surpass Yahoo Research in terms of substance. In the past, it was just a joke to say that Pichai was the director of the Time Research Institute, but he really couldn't find a suitable candidate to let him preside over the work of the research institute.

Yahoo not only has an excellent talent pool but also rich user data, and the global unified Yahoo account has a great role even in the mobile era, such as the current Yahoo News APP, which has a large number of downloads as soon as it is launched, and it can be said that it has a lot of traffic.

Yahoo's search technology is guaranteed, the problem is that Karl Butz almost gave up Yahoo's search at that time, and instead cooperated with Microsoft, in history, the time of this cooperation is ten years, but with Zhou Shi's participation, the time is finally set at 7 years, and Yahoo has the right to terminate the contract in the third year. This insistence is undoubtedly very correct in the present view. That is to say, after next year, the cooperation between Yahoo and Microsoft will expire, and the free Yahoo search will be re-launched, there is no doubt that Yahoo's search technology is superior to Microsoft Bing, yes, Microsoft's search finally chose to use Bing as their independent search brand, and Zhou Shi's previous domain name investment can be regarded as making a little money.

Yelp's development has maintained a strong momentum even without Zhou Shi, accelerating the promotion of first- and second-tier cities around the world, although the localization development of yelp's management around the world has stumbled, but as long as it is on the right path, coupled with Yahoo's accumulated human resources over the years, it can still solve most of the current problems. But what problems will arise between the two companies, only God knows. It seems that you still have to find an excellent CEO, or the Indians, the strong management ability of the Indians may be due to too many low-level workers who have not undergone modern science and management training, which the Chinese have to admire. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "The Rebirth of the Post-80s Legend Claw Book House" for free for the first time.