"Guys, have you used it?

Soyal, who had just downloaded QQ and installed it, shouted excitedly in Yahoo's internal chat room.

Soar is a technician at Yahoo Inc., and he likes to spend time in soft source chat rooms, exchanging computer knowledge and sharing information.

After AOL's engineers advertised QQ in the soft source chat room, many people in the chat room downloaded and tried it, and Soyal was one of them.

After adding a few friends in the soft source chat room, Soyal immediately discovered the charm of QQ software, which can communicate one-on-one and in real time with the friends he is looking for at any time, instead of waiting for a long time and slow feedback like email exchanges.

Soyal immediately thought of sharing the software with his colleagues at Yahoo, which meant that all the employees in the office of the company could communicate with each other online using their computers, which was much cooler than making a phone call.

In the face of Soar's recommendation, Yahoo employees downloaded QQ for trial, and for a while, QQ quickly spread to every work computer of Yahoo like a virus, and even Yang Zhiyuan, president of Yahoo, downloaded one.

Yang Zhiyuan, 26 years old, founded Yahoo in '94 with his classmate David Ferro, an Internet navigation website that provides netizens with links to major websites on the market, download addresses for the most popular software, and netizens can even search for keywords on Yahoo.

As one of the first search sites, Yahoo's search engine was dominant at the time, as it used manual search compared to the automated search used by other companies.

The so-called manual search is to rely on the website itself to manually add those relevant web pages and information, Yahoo employees store the detailed classification of various website pages in Yahoo's navigation information database, and subdivide each website layer by layer, so as to manually ensure that the search results fed back to users are more accurate.

From today's point of view, this kind of manual search is undoubtedly a very primitive method, but in the case of automatic search at the time, there are many errors and omissions. The local method is much stronger than the unreliable new technology, and the search quality is better than eight streets.

At that time, there were many Yahoo competitors on the Internet, such as WebCrawler, Lycos, Worm, Infoseek, etc., all of which started with automated searches. But the technology is immature, the results are inaccurate, and Yahoo's navigation information base is purely handmade, and the search feedback page is extremely accurate and very useful.

As a result, Yahoo has amassed a large number of loyal users across the United States in just a few months since its launch. Netizens fell in love with this small website that could provide accurate searches, so much so that Yahoo, which was founded not long ago, received $2 million in venture capital from Sequoia Capital, and was successfully listed on the NASDAQ in April '95, and the company's stock market value exceeded $500 million on the first day of listing!

After the emergence of the myth of Yahoo, which created billionaires in a year, the world began a vigorous Internet tide, and young people no longer applied for jobs in large companies after graduation, but plunged headlong into the Internet boom.

It is said that Yang Zhiyuan quickly used QQ, and directly used his English name Jerry-Yang as a screen name. This name is so recognizable that the company's internal employees come to add his friends, and for a while the computer on the desk keeps ringing, and the cough of QQ Najia friends is very sick, which startles Yang Zhiyuan, and constantly has employees who add friends and ask him: "Hey, is it the boss?" I'm XX, XX department. ”

Yang Zhiyuan played QQ enthusiastically for two hours, chatting and chatting so much that he forgot the time, for the light volume and concise interface of this software. He was very satisfied.

Yang Zhiyuan walked out of the office directly and found the person in charge of the technical department: "Put QQ into Yahoo's recommendation today." ”

"Boss, you mean the instant messaging software QQ?"

"Of course. ”

"Ha, I've put it on this week's software recommendation list. ”

"Very good, and I will make a separate feature recommendation for it. I'm very optimistic about this software, it's cool!"

“OK，Boss！”

Yang Zhiyuan returned to the office and said to David Ferro on QQ: "This software is really cool. ”

David Ferro: "Yes, I've added everyone I know as friends, you wait." I'll give you Billy's QQ number. ”

"Billy of Netscape? They've started playing QQ too?"

"Yes, Billy said that Netscape was going crazy in the room, and Mark Anderson asked every Netscape employee to add his friends. ”

"Haha, we Yahoo should do the same. Yang Zhiyuan typed quickly.

"What does the name of this Chinese company mean? CG-soft, which means Computer-Graphics?"

"No, the software description says that this company is pronounced chongguang, which means very bright. Yang Zhiyuan explained to his ghost partner openly.

"Oh? I think I've heard that name before. ”

Yang Zhiyuan's brain turned quickly: "Yes, I remember that there is a heavy light semiconductor, which seems to produce coprocessors." ”

"So they're a big company with both hardware and software development?" asked David Ferro.

"I didn't expect that there was such a strong company in Chinese mainland, I had only heard of Changxiang before. Yang Zhiyuan is from Taiwan, and he was also surprised by the sudden emergence of a heavy light company on the mainland.

"Jerry, if it's cheap, we might consider buying this software, you know, we've raised a lot of money after we go public, and it might be a good thing for us to acquire a new type of software. Besides, Chinese goods have always been cheap. ”

"Let's wait a minute, maybe there are still a lot of bugs in this software. I've asked the tech department to recommend it on Yahoo's software page, and once the number of users increases, maybe the problems with this software will be exposed. Yang Zhiyuan typed.

"You're right. David Ferro replied.

Since Yahoo went public in April 95, Yahoo ranked first in the world in the first half of the traffic statistics of the global Internet portal released in July.

It can be said that any software or any piece of news, as long as it is recommended by Yahoo's page, can immediately become popular all over the world.

QQ became popular immediately after being recommended on the Yahoo software category page!

Internet users from all over the world have seen the introduction of Yahoo's recommended software this week, QQ, after opening Yahoo's software classification page.

The world's original, the world's first Internet real-time messaging software, this loud slogan was listed under the name of QQ by the website editors.

Computer users all over the United States and even the world have started to download QQ with the mentality of trying, and in less than an hour, the number of QQ downloads exceeded 10,000, and it is still soaring.

According to statistics, in 1995, the number of Internet users worldwide had grown to about 39 million, of which 25 million were in the United States.

As the world's No. 1 portal navigation website in terms of traffic this year, Yahoo's recommendation has pushed QQ to the forefront and exposed it to Internet users all over the world. (To be continued.) )

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