On a night in Tokyo, Junichi Watanabe was writing an epilogue with mixed feelings, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, on the morning sun-filled California coast, Miguel from the New York Times had just come out of Larry Page's villa, he sat in the car, looked over the gradually lowering silhouette of the mountains behind the villa, looked at the blue line where the sea and the sky met in the distance, frowning and thinking.

Miguel is a veteran journalist who has been in the IT industry for many years, and although he works for The New York Times, he is often asked for articles or reprints from other newspapers and magazines, and now he has just finished an interview with Larry Page — Miguel, to be precise, at the invitation of Larry Page to interview him and write an article.

Of course, Miguel is very aware that the only recent developments that the industry can care about Larry Page are Facebook's publicly named "developer plan", F8 Conference!

This is a PR operation.

Thinking of the vague hints he had received from the PR agency and the meaning of the other party's words when he had just interviewed Larry Page, Miguel smiled wryly, but could not do anything. Similar public relations actions, to put it bluntly, are nothing more than asking gunmen to publish articles in newspapers and portals to discredit targets, which has long been a common trick in many companies in Silicon Valley, and even the real big names sometimes can't refuse to take on such jobs.

The ecology of Silicon Valley has never been an ivory tower of abundance and peace, but is hidden under the glamour. A dark jungle where the land is barren and starving.

If you want to survive, you sometimes have to put your conscience aside for a while.

After thinking for a while, Miguel shook his head, abandoned those chaotic thoughts, turned on the recorder, and listened to the recorded interview with Larry Page, sometimes fast-forwarding:

“…… I've always been a firm believer that search services should be used throughout the evolution of the Internet. This precise service model cannot be replaced for a long time. It has been the gateway to the Internet for the past few years and will continue to be the most important entry service in the future......"

It's still a cliché, and it's not new at all. But listen to Larry Page's flat and straightforward tone. Miguel, however, could not raise any thought of rebuttal. Because the word "precision" in the other party's words has pushed Google from an unknown startup to the top of today. Over the past few years, anyone who has tried to refute or question it has been smashed by Google's violent inflation.

As for the future......

In the future, could it be upended?

Miguel didn't quite know that he had a young Asian face in his mind - Korean Ann.

From the strangeness of taking over Facebook, to now, the South Korean CEO who has not given up his star status in the country on the other side of the ocean has already proved his acting and oratorical talent in front of the camera, as well as the personality charm that extends from it.

Now, he has a large following in North America!

As a member of the Internet industry and a front-line reporter of Internet dynamics, Miguel not only listened to Ahn Junhyuk's speech up close, but even interviewed the other party.

Compared with the low-key and conservative image of "traditional" Internet company executives, many times, Ahn Jun-hyuk is "aggressive", he likes to promote his ideas, his ideas, his Internet values in public, just like his star "old business", in the spotlight, applause and noise, so that people who can accept his ideas fall madly in love with him, and then follow in his footsteps.

Under the leadership of such a charismatic CEO, is Facebook's "openness" qualified to question, or even replace Google's "precision"?

Listening to the words of Larry Page from the voice recorder, thinking about his past knowledge of Ahn Joon-hyuk, Miguel suddenly found that the two were very similar.

It's not physiognomy or character, it's the realm of thought.

Whether it is Larry Page or Ahn Junhyuk, while they are themselves, they are also building their own "world of ideas". Larry Page's world is "precision", he believes that the Internet should start with search, users like to search for the precise life provided, they send their questions to Google, and then get accurate answers from Google - news, shopping, travel!

But Ahn Jun Hyuk's world is the opposite, it is vague and unified, the main body of this world is social, and the network completes the feedback of information.

If that's all there is, Ahn Joon-hyuk's world interface will be at a disadvantage in every way against Larry Page's world world, but once Facebook is done opening up............

Ahn Joon-hyuk once painted a similar picture when he released Jmap at MacWorld 2007, a platform built on openness and sharing, which does not require search results, but creates an ecosystem of news, shopping, and entertainment through a network.

For some time, Larry Page's world has dominated the Internet, and all of people's online activities are done directly or indirectly through search, so it has become the entrance to the Internet, generating tens of billions of sales for Google every year. But now, when Ahn Joon-hyuk instructed Facebook to shout the slogan of openness, can this entrance still maintain its monopoly?

Joan Junhyuk's world is really like what he once depicted, people watch the world through the sharing of friends, choose brands, choose food, and choose entertainment through the marks of friends...... Will the more harmonious relationship network, open links at the same time, deeply integrated into the Internet, the entrance split, is it imminent?

- At the very least, if Facebook does open up their user data and help many companies complete the most difficult stage of accumulating users, Facebook itself will have a strength that can compete with Google's "precision" attributes:

Public praise!

Like a virus, with the rapid spread of the relationship map, the word of mouth has gone away!

At that point, the Internet portal will be split into two parts: representing the "precise" delivery of the technique. People-oriented viral marketing.

Both have their advantages. As for which world the Internet will tilt towards in the future, Miguel has no answer.

He looked at the voice recorder in his hand, which had been fast-forwarded, and was stunned for a moment, smiling bitterly.

What do you want to do so far?

Facebook may be able to overthrow Google, or it may be overwhelmed by Google, and the battle between Larry Page's technological evolution and Ahn Jun-hyuk's human-centered change may be protracted and inseparable, but for now, Larry Page has recognized the threat of Ahn Jun-hyuk. Facebook will first have to face the suppression that Google has begun to prepare!

Worse. Microsoft is probably not willing to be lonely......

……

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"The situation you've been facing lately isn't very optimistic!"

Tokyo's night port is not as the sun sets on the horizon, the whistle of ships, the roar of machinery. The hustle and bustle of life. It still continues to sweep through the sky that has been blurred by light pollution. Passing through the barrier of the park, it fell into the ears of Ahn Junhyuk and Kazuo Hirai, who were leisurely pacing.

After taking photos in the evening, Ahn Jun-hyuk rushed to Tokyo. Kazuo Hirai, who had just finished a meeting, shared a Japanese-style dinner in the dining hall of a century-old restaurant in Ginza.

Although there is a saying in Japanese politics that "Ryotei politics, Kasumigaseki diplomacy" (meaning that politics is discussed at the dinner table of a top-notch restaurant called Ryotei, and diplomacy is settled at Kasumigaseki in Chiyoda Ward), in modern times, Ryotei is mostly used as an old-fashioned way to connect feelings, and as a traditional Japanese, Kazuo Hirai clearly has a similar nostalgia complex.

After dinner, Kazuo Hirai did not tell the driver to take Ahn Jun-hyuk back, but took him to the park where he had been around since childhood.

The moon was as cool as water, and the sound of the sea breeze blowing across the bustling neighborhood was subtle and peaceful, and the two of them walked slowly on the soft grass, hearing the words of Kazuo Hirai, and Ahn Junhyuk smiled in the shadow of the trees.

"How can there be smooth sailing in this world? We must unite a part and fight against a part. ”

The two are not subordinate relationships, so there is naturally no need to shy away from such words, hearing this, Kazuo Hirai chewed on the meaning of the words, and immediately sighed.

The more he gets along with Ahn Jun Hyuk, the stronger the idea of accepting the other party as an assistant becomes, and now he and Sony are most lacking in this kind of pioneering talent who is not afraid of fighting, but unfortunately, he has not been able to get enough chips.

Sighing secretly, Kazuo Hirai didn't show more regrets, but just asked, "Confident?"

Ahn Jun-hyuk shook his head: "No one dares to say that they are confident in the face of Google and Microsoft, not to mention that the situation is more complicated, Google is a drunkard who does not mean to drink, and Microsoft is purely a-stirring stick......" The vulgar metaphor attracted a sideways glance from Kazuo Hirai, and Ahn Junhyuk smiled: "...... In any case, let's see how the situation develops. ”

"You, your calm appearance doesn't look like you're resigned to fate. He nodded at him with a smile, and since he didn't say much, Kazuo Hirai didn't ask more.

The middle-aged Sony executive, who rose to high position, looked around at the secluded park, and even in the bustling city of Tokyo, the world's most populous city, there are forgotten corners.

The park has existed for a long time, and with the development of the surrounding area, this remote and cramped place with a lack of entertainment has finally fallen behind the times, and he has the impression that the memories of people walking in the park under every tree are still like yesterday, but what the eyes see is already full of barrenness.

The vicissitudes of life are so distinctly and clearly opposed, full of sorrow and helplessness.

It's not that I can't keep up with the times, it's that the times are changing too fast!

The park is like this, Sony is like this, and Kazuo Hirai feels like this himself.

He stopped talking, and Ahn Joon-hyuk quietly walked slowly with him.

Since the rebirth of memory, most of these people who have befriended have the same characteristics, their memories are still remembering the past, but their steps have been forced to move towards the future, what is the future, nothing more than a gamble, under fate, who is not involuntarily?

Google is a drunkard, not alcohol, why not Hirai Kazuo? Walking means that the other party is hesitant, and today's dinner is not just for connection.

"Mr. Stringer would like to see you. ”

At a certain moment, Kazuo Hirai turned around and looked at Ahn Junhyuk, who was shrouded in darkness under the shade of the tree. (To be continued......)