Tim Ashley is a materials science researcher at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) whose current topic is working on thermal insulation coating materials for launch vehicles.

"Fxck, if I look at every page, I'm going to look up the next century. Tim Ashley looked at the infoseek page in front of him in despair, he had long since stopped using Yahoo in his search, and switched to infoseek, at least the latter scraped information directly from the web, and Yahoo was just similar to a personal favorites, except that this favorites were large enough to add an internal search function.

It's funny, this is the Yahoo that changed the Internet, this is the so-called search engine pioneer Yahoo, which is essentially a hao123-like website.

As a result, InfoSeek is a more technologically advanced tool for scraping keyword information directly from the web to find new information on the Internet.

But Infoseek is now only a keyword benchmarking technique, such as search mit, which will turn MIT, mitsubishi (Mitsubishi), mitt (breaking dancing fingerless gloves), mitnick (personal name) and so on into search results.

Tim Ashley originally just wanted to search for a paint, but unexpectedly a bunch of irrelevant information came out, the only information that could be similar to this paint was the word coating in it.

"Okay, okay, looks like I'll have to look at them one by one. Tim Ashley resigned himself to his fate, ready to open the links one by one to take a look.

Of course, there are many hyperlinks that you know from the hyperlink address that it will not be the information you are looking for, so you don't have to look at it anymore, and you can save some time.

"Huh?" Tim Ashley was about to close an online page when he was attracted by an ad on the page.

Looks like a new search engine site, why don't you give it a try?

Tim Ashley clicked on the link without much hope, "What do you mean?" Tim Ashley muttered to himself, "The page is very clean, there is only one input box, okay, I'll search it... ”

Tim Ashley typed in the name he wanted to search for paint in the input box.

"Hmm... It looks like the search speed of the website is okay. Tim Ashe was using MIT's network, which is one of the fastest on the planet, and in less than a few seconds, search results were filled with Tim Ashley's Netscape browser page.

"Holyshxt!" Tim Ashley didn't finish the first page, he was completely shocked, all the search results on this website are actually related to his search content, and the first place is the webpage of Honeywell, which produces this paint, which details the material properties of this paint, precautions and so on.

Tim Ashley became interested, searched everything he could think of searching, and found that although this search site cannot do 100% search for what you want to search, as long as the search words given are directional enough, then the search accuracy is very high.

Moreover, the top ones are often already the content they want to search for, and they don't need to turn back many pages.

Tim Ashley speculated that the search engine must have used some algorithmic sorting technology, but it was remarkable to be able to combine such complex operations with such fast search speeds.

Tim Ashley remembered that his friend Victor had been worrying about a topic recently, and he also helped him search for it, and sure enough, he could get relatively accurate information.

Tim Ashley quickly added the site to his favorites, logged on to his ICQ, and saw that his friend and colleague Victor was also online, so he sent him the results of the search he had just found.

Victor received Tim Ashley's message, clicked on the link to see that it was what he hadn't found in the past few days, and asked curiously: "Tim, how did you find it?"

Tim Ashley quickly typed in ICQ: "I found a new search site and it works. ”

"New search site?" Victor blinked, "Send me the URL." ”

Tim sent the google URL to Victor on ICQ.

"This search engine is so easy to use. Victor sighed. "I wonder who made this website?"

Within three days, almost all researchers at MIT knew that there was a new search site called google.

"Google?Interesting name, look at their technology. A tall, handsome young man of Chinese descent at Infoseek muttered to himself.

"Oh my God!" the Chinese young man couldn't help but feel a little dry, picked up the water glass on the table and drank it down.

At this moment, someone slapped him on the back, and the Chinese young man almost squirted out a mouthful of water and coughed.

"Haha, Robin, every time I see you drinking hot water, well, Huaxia people love to drink hot water. Hurry up and report to me today's stats, and I'll report back to Thomas in a moment. The person who spoke had a slight accent, and if you looked closely, it should be an Indian.

The Asian young man was slightly dissatisfied, "Harish, my job is to report to William, not Thomas, and I don't need you to report to Thomas instead of me." ”

Harish is at the same level as the Asian youth and is the company's core engineer, but Harish often seems to think of himself as the head of the department, but when the real department manager, William Chang, appears, he is as well-behaved as a pug.

Harish burst into a rage, "Robin Li, do you know who you're talking to!? You just joined the company, you don't respect the company's seniors, and deliberately create contradictions, don't think that you and William are both Chinese and can do whatever you want!"

Robin didn't expect Harrysh's reaction to be so big, he was not good at confrontation with people, and he couldn't help but shrink back in momentum.

Although he is very disdainful of Harish, who has long been in the United States, Robin has long known what virtue Indians are, and most Indians in Silicon Valley are very fond of bluffing, messy work, and a good hand at stealing credit.

Robin can imagine that if he were to give Harrish a report to report to Thomas, the company's executive director, Harish would belittle himself as worthless and say that all the achievements were done under his direction.

Robin shrugged, ignored Harish, who was foaming at the mouth, and picked up the materials on the table and walked to William Zhang's office.

"William, there's something I want to tell you. Robin politely knocked on the door.

William Zhang is also a technical person, very nice, and Robin is a technical talent he admires very much, so he is very enthusiastic about Robin, "Yanhong, come, what is the matter to sit down and say." ”

Li Yanhong pulled out his chair, "In the past few days, there is a search website called Google that has just been established, I don't know if you have heard of it?"

William Zhang shook his head.

Robin Li walked up to William Zhang's computer and typed in Google's web address.

"The technology used by this company is much better than our existing technology, which is very similar to the set of hyperchain analysis technologies I have developed before, and I think that if we don't make a comprehensive upgrade to our underlying technology, we may be in a backward position in the future competition. Robin Li said seriously.

William Zhang took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes, "Yanhong, you know, I have asked the board of directors to increase the budget many times, but since we in Infoseek have been losing money for two years, the board hopes to at least achieve less or no loss this year, so that we can have an account with shareholders, so we don't have the money to continue to develop the next generation of search engines now." ”

Robin Li said helplessly: "But if we don't continue to invest, now it's just a Google, and there may be more companies that surpass us in the future, and our dominant position in the search field will no longer exist." Moreover, my hyperchain analysis technology is relatively mature, and it can be completed with some coordinated development work, and the cost is not high. ”

William Chang said: "How many people do you need, how much development money?"

Robin Li thought for a moment, "I need a budget of $1.5 million, and I recruit programmers myself. ”

William Zhang thought for a while: "Okay, I'll go and apply to the board of directors, but there is not much hope, you should be mentally prepared." ”

Li Yanhong nodded, "Okay." ”

(End of chapter)