Chapter 33 PageRank

Seeing that AOL was about to go public, Henry knew that he had to move a little faster. Nicholas website is burning more and more money now, and the money raised through Netscape is about to burn out. Except for the domain name management company and the West German publishing house, which can pay Henry dividends every year, the other industries are spending money!

Henry's hands were a little tight, and he felt a little stretched.

Now, Cisco's tiger has bared its fangs and wiped out 13 small and medium-sized network equipment manufacturers in the United States at a cost of $740 million! Citibank and Morgan Bank have jointly lent $1 billion to Cisco. Cisco will continue to crush non-stop, all technologies that are helpful to Cisco must be bought, and all companies that are a threat to Cisco must be acquired!

Cisco's actions were so brutal that they stunned the whole country, and even Sequoia Capital was stunned. Compared with Cisco, the company's pace is slow, and it is still developing steadily.

&nb company will be finished sooner or later, just wait to be acquired by Cisco!

The world of capital plays capital!

The development of conformity is too slow. The fastest way to build technology and scale is to acquire a company!

Citibank and Morgan Bank are not without reason for helping Cisco: First, Cisco has developed very well and has great potential; second, Cisco is preparing to go public at the end of the year, and the listing contractor is the two of them! The more successful Cisco's listing is, the more Citibank and Morgan Bank will earn. Cisco's serial acquisition portfolio is the most popular for Wall Street or investors! On the day of listing, I don't know how high the stock price will be!

Moreover, Cisco is not a random acquisition of companies, but very targeted, and the acquisition of companies related to its technology can play a role in promoting the development of Cisco. That's why acquisitions like this are highly strategic and commendable!

Originally, Sequoia Capital would definitely participate in Cisco's listing, but Henry was already very tired of Sequoia Capital, not only Henry was not used to Sequoia Capital, but even the entire management of Cisco!

Who called Sequoia Capital to vigorously support the company, which has seriously damaged the interests of Cisco!

As the majority shareholder of Cisco, Henry decided to kick Sequoia Capital away, which was also strongly supported by John Chambers and others!

Sequoia Capital is now in a very awkward position at Cisco, and it has become a complete ornament. Even though it has a seat on the board, it has no bird use. And in the management of the company, no one takes it seriously!

Ford Brooke basically doesn't come to Cisco, and when he comes, he is angry!

However, Cisco now has a high negative equity ratio of -37%. But this negative equity is nothing, and many large companies have developed with loans.

Cisco doesn't have to worry about Henry, and it doesn't have to inject capital, it can already be self-sufficient, and it can bully others!

But Pixar Animation Studios, Noah's Ark, Isearch, and Nicholas Group of Companies, these four companies are burning more money than one another.

Pixar Animation Studios' new computer-animated short film "Red's Dream" won the San Francisco International Film Festival Computer Synthesis Award and the Kinnikas Award at the Prix ArsElectronica Film Festival in Austria. This made Henry happy, but it was far worse than another achievement.

Pixar's self-developed program RenderMan is about to be completed, RenderMan is a computer image rendering system, widely used in the production of high-end moving images, so it is also an indispensable technology in high-end fields such as animated films and film and television special effects!

This kind of special effects technology is of great significance to Pixar! Henry expressed great concern about this matter, and even has the intention of setting up a special effects company similar to Industrial Light & Magic! However, the RenderMan program has not yet been completed, and it will be discussed when it is completed.

After that, Henry still stayed at Isearch often, and after the web crawler improved, it was indeed much stronger, and the patent was registered. The next step is to analyze and process this web page information. This time, Henry came up with the concept of the web page, there are good and bad websites on the Internet, so the quality of the web pages returned to the user is even more important!

Standing in the crowd, Henry said lightly: "So, we need to design a ranking algorithm to evaluate the importance of these websites, and then provide users with the best quality information!"

"My assumption is this, since every page will contain links to other websites, can it mean that the page voted for these linked websites? So the more votes for the linked website, the higher its rating! But we also know that there are many spam websites on the Internet, so for excellent websites with a lot of traffic, can we set a high initial rating for it, and then we can vote more than ordinary websites?"

After Henry finished speaking, he looked very calm, Google's PageRank (page level) is too famous, almost achieving Google's glory, this is not plagiarism, then don't be a search engine at all......

After listening to Henry's words, everyone immediately admired. Even Bill Joyce and Luke Stowe boast of being geniuses, but compared to Henry, they are willing to bow down!

"CEO, what's the name of this ranking algorithm?" Luke Stowe asked excitedly.

"PageRank, page-level !!," Henry said pretending to be bland. He is now not only the chairman of Isearch, but also the CEO of Isearch! With so many industries under his name, why does he become the CEO of Isearch? Obviously, Henry has not placed high hopes on Isearch!

When Henry was enjoying the glory, he said: "The way users search is generally the title and keyword, so on the basis of mixing the title and keyword, you need to adjust the results through PageRank, so that the higher-ranking pages are ranked first in the search results according to the order of the website ranking, so as to improve the relevance and quality !!of the search results."

"CEO, we get it!!" everyone said in unison!

Henry then assigns the task to the task. These employees are all top students of Stanford University, and their level is good. Add to that the presence of two talents, Bill Joyce and Luke Stowe, and the project should go off without a hitch. It's not difficult to write code, it's the idea and the design that are difficult. It is not difficult to make a program, but the difficult thing is to make a program with excellent algorithms, extremely fast response, and accurate processing!

Now the Internet is far less than in the future, the amount of information that needs to be processed is very small, and it is not required to be able to compare with Google, just meet the needs of the present!

In October, Isearch's search engine was finally completed. After testing, the search experience was still good, and very accurate results were returned in two seconds! The product was ready to be launched on the market, but Henry still asked them to continue to improve, especially the algorithm. There are fewer than 20,000 websites and less than a million Internet users. The amount of information is very small, and it takes 2 seconds for Isearch to return the result, so you can imagine how good this algorithm can be!

Since Isearch's search engine is sufficient, Henry's companies will use this product and tailor the search system for Nicholas website, Netscape browser, global online, IMDB, Cisco official website, Noah's Ark official website!

On November 1st, this day is destined to be a sensation in the United States!

All the websites of Henry's companies have an additional search box, enter the content you want to search, click "Isearch", and immediately return the information that the user needs!

This function is too practical and too powerful, which has caused the global online traffic to increase dramatically, and the server has almost been crowded! Other websites have also increased their traffic, and Netscape browser has installed a search box, and the stock price has soared like crazy on the same day, and it can't be stopped! It is not difficult to climb the 6 billion market value mark in one breath!!! (have you collected it?, don't forget to vote, the new book asks for support!)

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