Chapter 44: 2005 is here

Baidu has not yet been listed, although it has achieved profitability, it does not have much income, and the year-end bonus is naturally nothing. There were no large-scale events held to arouse the concern of the public. However, Baidu still recovered, and its market share reached 35% at the end of the year. Although Baidu's publicity has only just begun, who let Yahoo not post it, I am afraid that Lao Zhou's life will be difficult again.

Zhou Shi is also discussing the future development with Robin Li and others at Baidu, as if everyone has no clear goals, just some big ideas. However, Zhou Shi has thought a lot about Baidu, even if he doesn't talk about artificial intelligence, there is still a lot to say.

"Robin, do you think we can turn Baidu into a hydropower company in the Internet world" Zhou Shi

"That's an interesting statement, what do you think?" said Robin Lee

"The more the Internet develops, the more information there is, the greater people's demand for search, in addition to social networking, e-commerce, entertainment, life, is learning, data and information. I think we can focus on the value of data and information and become the core of this field. As if it was not clear, Zhou Shi continued: "For example, can we establish a Baidu cloud computing center, this cloud computing center can have a variety of functions, for example, a person wants to start a business, but does not have so much money to buy hardware equipment, and is afraid of business failure, causing a lot of losses, what should we do? On-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (including networks, servers, storage, applications, services) that can be provisioned quickly with minimal administrative effort or interaction with service providers. Zhou Shi said and didn't know where it was going

"Cloud computing?" Liu Jianguo said puzzled

"Assuming that a supercomputer can run a billion calculations per second, can we achieve this capability with ordinary high-performance computers in some way and architecture?" Without waiting for them to answer, Zhou Shi continued: "I think cloud computing is like project management, breaking a small task into 1,000 parts, each person starts to do it at the same time, and each person does one copy, if one person needed to do 1,000 hours in the past, now 1,000 people can finish it in one hour." Specifically, cloud computing can include the following levels of services: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS)"

Seeing that everyone was fascinated, Zhou Shi continued: "Cloud computing is to distribute computing on a large number of distributed computers, rather than local computers or remote servers, and the operation of enterprise data centers will be more similar to the Internet. This enables enterprises to switch resources to the applications they need, accessing computers and storage systems on demand. It means that computing power can also be circulated as a commodity, just like gas, water and electricity, which is easy to access and inexpensive. The biggest difference is that it is transmitted over the internet. ”

"If we can continue to develop this market through ten years of uninterrupted investment, once we become a leader in this industry, I think we will be the natural water and electricity supplier of the Internet. Zhou Shi said this paragraph in summary and fell silent, the poor technical level is just no way, many things only know the surface. Except for this idea, everything else is scum.

"Isn't this investment very big?" Wang Zhanshen asked first

"In my vision, cloud computing should serve the whole society, and it should be very large-scale, at least hundreds of thousands, or even millions of servers. "Zhou Shi

"We're ...... now," Liu Jianguo sighed without finishing

"I don't think it's a problem, from the development of Google, I know that Baidu's development potential is still very large, I don't care how to make a profit, but I have full confidence in market share. "Zhou Shi," the next publicity should be seen by everyone, our clear positioning, our technology is superior in the Chinese search market, and a little more activities to increase user stickiness, fifty percent market share is not a problem. ”

"You're so confident. "Xu

"Confident in life for 200 years, you will be hit by water for 3,000 miles!" Of course, Zhou Shi has this self-confidence, even Yahoo can't do it, and what qualifications do he have to impact the world's Internet rivers and lakes. Moreover, after the security guards were separated, Zhou Shi let them start the research and development of the input method. Baidu's internal technical talents have been leading in China for a long time, and the intelligent input method is still difficult for them.

"Are we going to step up Baidu's marketing?" said Ma Dongmei, Robin Lee's wife

"I have no opinion" Zhou Shi didn't say anything, watching everyone discuss, it was still that history, but Zhou Shi was not ready to change, he came when he came, he didn't believe that Wang Zhanshen was so unlucky in this life, and Baidu had no other sources of income and ideals, so that this Xiang Hailong became Baidu's de facto cancer.

However, after this meeting, Zhou Shi had more exchanges with Baidu's technical talents. The concept of cloud computing has been in rudiments before, but it has not yet appeared as specific and detailed as Zhou Shi.

Robin Lee didn't say much, and Zhou Shi didn't know what he was thinking. However, it still passed the proposal of Zhou Shi and Wang Zhanshen to negotiate and make Kangsheng independent and develop IDC and CDN business at the same time. Dai Sikang, a post-80s generation, finally has a chance to become famous, but Kangsheng is not the Kangsheng of the past, and under the mixing of talents, Dai Sikang's rights have been greatly restricted. Wang Feng stayed at Baidu to help Zhou Shi focus on the development of input methods, English-Chinese dictionaries, ancient poems, translations and other products that increase user experience. The development of the browser Zhou Shi gave 360 advice, and he didn't say it again in Baidu, the entrance to this Internet traffic is important, Baidu is not so depressed now, and the browser is not a necessity.

360 company released a security guard in January, Baidu has not used traffic support, and now it does not have much influence, but the promotion of the post bar forum has begun, and several large download stations have also cooperated, and the development trend is still good. Gao Ran also began to cooperate with well-known antivirus software vendors, continuing the strategy of the previous life, downloading and installing Security Guard, you can get a free antivirus software activation code for half a year. Zhou Shi also met the famous Rebus by the way. Jinshan has not yet been listed, but the prestige of the Rebus model worker is still very famous in Zhongguancun. Unfortunately, Excellence was sold to Amazon last year, and Rebus's confidence in the Internet is clearly lacking.

Nothing happened to Zhou Shi and Rebus when they met for the first time, and they followed Gao Ran like a follower, just silently watching them talk and talk about things, probably because of the unremitting efforts of the security guards, and the two sides did not reach any agreement. But this is nothing, the number of users of the security guard has not yet come up, no matter who you look for, there will be a lot of problems, and now it is just a rehearsal before success.