"Are you really going to give us a million dollars?" Sergey Brin said with wide-eyed surprise.

Zhang Chen sat on the desk and said lightly: "No, it's not to give you a million, it's me to take a million out and run a company with you." ”

Sergei Brin and Larry Page looked at each other, and Larry Page stammered, "If you're interested in Pagerank, we can sell it to you for a million dollars." ”

Zhang Chen laughed and said: "Your pagerank is not valuable, the real value is the two of you, I am not investing in this technology, but in you." ”

Sergey Brin was a little unconvinced, "Pagerank is the best search engine algorithm right now, how can it be worthless? ”

Zhang Chen threw Sergei Brin a patent note: "The reason why your patent has not been approved is because there is already a similar patent, which is a patent that was just approved by the Patent Office two weeks ago, you can take a look." ”

Larry Page and Sergei Brin were skeptical, took the patent description and looked at it carefully.

"Robin Li? Sergei Brin thought for a moment.

Larry Page looked at the patent description with a dull head, and suddenly his face changed drastically, and Sergey Brin saw the face of his good friend, and he also looked at it seriously.

"The applicant for this patent was ahead of his time. The two looked at each other, the patent description will not be too detailed, but it will also explain the basic principle, although this Robin uses different technologies, but from the effect achieved, the other party's search engine can also do the search results according to the popularity of the ranking.

Crashed.

But even so, the two were not discouraged, completely ignored Zhang Chen's existence, and began to study the algorithm mentioned in this patent.

After a long time, Larry Page showed a proud look on his face: "Judging from the patent description, he uses the same algorithm as us. ”

Zhang Chen nodded: "The method proposed by bin is that in addition to the keyword citation in the file itself, the keywords in the backlink also need to be considered. And your PageRank is a way to measure the importance of a page, the more links that point to a page, and the higher the weight of the links themselves, the higher the importance and PageRank of the page being pointed to. But in any case, you are all starting with hyperlink analysis, and although the algorithms used are different, the similarities are still great. ”

Sergei Brin looked at Zhang Chen strangely: "Can you understand our algorithm?"

Zhang Chen raised his eyebrows: "Although I don't study CS, I am also a math enthusiast, I can't write algorithms, it's normal to be able to understand them after studying them, right?"

Sergei Brin spread his hands: "What a waste, as the owner of an investment company, in fact, you only need to know addition and subtraction within ten." ”

Larry Page thought for a moment: "It's not the same, it's still different, these are two completely different algorithms. We find the Markov transition probability matrix, and iteratively find the maximum eigenvalue of the matrix. In addition, the damping coefficient is introduced into the matrix to increase the lower limit of PageRank analysis, so that the zero chain entry page can also have a PageRank value. And the other party's algorithm, xxxxxxx"

This kind of nerd can't communicate at all, and he starts to talk about technology, no wonder Su Zhuorui is reluctant to come with him to meet them, probably because he is annoyed.

Zhang Chen crossed his arms: "Okay, okay, you're all right, but from a business point of view, you have to admit that the gap between the two is not big." ”

Sergei Brin began to argue again: "How can there be no big gap? Do you understand it? We are much more efficient, even if we have a large amount of data, it can be easily implemented in a parallel framework, bala bala bala bala 。。。。。。 ”

Zhang Chen was so noisy that he waved his hand: "Stop, stop, I just want to tell you that if I just want to be a search company that replaces Yahoo, I can buy this patent for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and then find a professional person to run it, maybe in two or three years, it will be a company with a market value of one billion dollars." ”

Sergei Brin blinked, "Then why don't you do it?"

Zhang Chen shrugged: "Don't you think Silicon Valley is too boring now?"

"Bored?" the two looked at each other.

"Yes, it's boring, all the big companies are the same, whether it's Apple, Yahoo or AOL, and now ebVan, it's essentially a traditional industry. They don't value technology, they don't value innovation, the only thing they care about is how they can scam more money out of investors, oh yes, and how they can trick more ordinary users into using their clumsy 'service' like "Batman Forever", if that can also be called a service. ”

"Yahoo's search engine is still added by hand, for which it has raised 40 people to add keywords manually, AOL is like a large local area network, always afraid that competitors will be able to share their services. As for EBVAN, this is a scam company that spends $300 million to build cold storage all over the United States? Does he think that the investors are all Soviets during the Star Wars era?"

"As for companies like Apple and Hewlett-Packard, I really don't understand how they can tolerate what they keep coming out of for a few years without any new ideas, as if all their innovation comes from Moore's Law not failing. ”

"Isn't this kind of Silicon Valley boring?"

"So, I've always wanted to be a company that values technology, pursues innovation, has a geek spirit, and is always on the cutting edge of technology. I hope it will become a benchmark for the whole of Silicon Valley, a benchmark for the entire Internet industry. ”

Larry Page's eyes widened, Zhang Chen's picture of the prospect made him and Sergey Brin both excited, he had been to many companies for interviews before, it was because of his disappointment in the big Silicon Valley companies that he wanted to stay in school as a lecturer, Zhang Chen's evaluation of these big Silicon Valley companies completely spoke to their hearts.

Zhang Chen was also almost moved by his performance, he was able to pretend to be forced in front of Larry Page and Sergei Brin, he felt that he was about to become the king of pretending.

The two of them were flushed and breathless, Zhang Chen couldn't help but feel a little proud, so cool, really pretending to make people happy.

Although Sergei Brin usually talks a lot more than Larry Page, in the relationship between the two, Larry Page is the leader of the relationship, and Larry Page calmed down, "I joined your company." Turning his head, he asked Sergey Brin, "Sergey, what about you?"

Sergei Brin was stunned, "Of course I'm also joining, how can such an interesting thing be missing me?"

Zhang Chen laughed wildly in his heart, and all the heroes of the world entered my hub.

Wait, what did they just say?

Join my company?

Zhang Chen opened his mouth and said, "What did you say?

Larry Page nodded, and said as a matter of course: "yes, didn't you say that you want to be an open, inclusive, technology-oriented, and innovative company?"

Zhang Chen felt a little messy, what the hell is going on? Speculating in real estate and becoming a landlord and stock speculation into a shareholder? If I have confidence in myself to engage in Google, why am I looking for you two fools?

(End of chapter)