Chapter 10 Ten Thousand Households Survive Forever
Google, the world's No. 1 search engine company in the future, will still be established in five years.
Isn't there a need for search engine technology until then?
No!
Need.
It's just that people need it, but they don't know they want it.
Sounds a bit confusing?
Just like the Apple mobile phone that was blown into the sky, before the Apple mobile phone came out, people's understanding of the mobile phone was still enough to be able to make calls, rather than a digital product that could achieve more functions.
When Steve Jobs came up with this product, everyone felt that we needed such a product.
As a result, we have entered a new era of smartphones and mobile devices.
It's the same with search engines.
Before the advent of search engines, people were in such a state of surfing the Internet.
Find a notebook that records the URL, or pull a domain name out of your head.
Go into this domain and look for the features you want.
The vast majority of websites are forums, mailboxes, and instant chats.
At this time, people who go online think that the Internet should be like this, isn't it just a domain name, a few domain names, and what they can't remember.
However, for the old guns, there is no problem with this.
What about people who are just getting started with the web?
If you want to use different features, you have to go to different websites.
If you want to see other people's posts, you need to go to the forum, if you want to send a message to others, you need to go to your mailbox, and if you want to chat with others, you need to go to another website.
However, it is important to know that one feature can be done by many websites at the same time.
Before you know it, there are dozens of websites that you may need to remember for those who are already online and those who have just been online.
Dozens of websites, not a problem for veterans who have jotted them down one by one.
But what about newcomers?
People who have just surfed the Internet can only look at the long list of websites with a confused face.
Compared with the search engine with higher technical requirements, another kind of website navigation done by various websites appeared earlier.
Several personal websites and company websites, together, your website has my link, and my website has your link.
In this way, the complementary functions and the diversion of users can be realized.
However, this method is still not convenient enough!
These site navigators are either at the bottom of the page or a separate page.
It's as cumbersome as the heavy notebook of addresses and phone numbers in a public phone booth.
More and more new websites are emerging, and it is not a good idea to rely on this approach.
However, for the exploration of new technologies, how to let machines instead of people roam around the entire Internet and find all the websites.
It is also a technical issue to display the abbreviated information of these websites in front of users.
Takahashi is not proficient in web crawlers and other technologies, but can only be regarded as understanding.
However, now the size of 10,000 households has become so large.
As a decision-maker, you don't have to be so specific.
Whether it is R&D for people who have been in 10,000 households, or recruiting new people with technology, it is completely feasible.
With Takahashi's order, some of the veins of the giant Manhu began to surge.
The people in these veins began to act.
Started the development of this new search engine technology.
I wrote an article, but I didn't rush to publish it at various computer conferences or in computer journals.
Why not?
Isn't this the result of everyone's hard work?
Because if it is released, competitors will find out the progress of Wanhu's research and development in the direction of search engines.
It may even attract new opponents.
Any large company, in addition to running its own business, actually has the idea of opening up new business.
Although their actions may not be large, as long as they find that this field is really feasible, the power they throw down can directly scare ordinary people to death.
Why do they want to expand, isn't it because the structure of the company itself can't afford to expand even more?
This is because no one knows when their main business will decline.
Just like now, Kodak, a giant in the film and camera industry, also began to develop digital cameras in 1993.
Because they clearly know that things like film cameras will definitely be replaced by more convenient shooting methods in the future.
But why did Kodak die on film again in the end?
This is because they found that the magic box of digital cameras is so powerful that if they launched their own digital cameras, their film business would take a sharp turn.
So, they can only wait for a slow death.
Some people will ask, are Kodak's decision-makers so stupid?
In fact, Kodak's decision-makers are not stupid, they are smart, but they are accountable to shareholders and to the board of directors.
Shareholders and the board of directors value short-term interests and financial reports.
The act of casting a long line to catch a big fish and suffering short-term losses and fighting for the future does not exist for them.
Therefore, even if Kodak was once ahead in digital camera technology, it could occupy the market by a large margin.
However, digital cameras can hurt the film business, affecting short-term earnings and financial performance. Shareholders and the board of directors did not agree, and in the end they had to wait for a slow death.
Industry giants like Microsoft, they don't know when the operating system office suite will not be used.
Maybe at some point, the computers that are important to people will be replaced by other devices.
For example...... Cell phone.
Or...... Flat?
Microsoft has also made many attempts and launched many products.
But......
They put out something that didn't end up doing too well.
Because, their train of thought has been fixed.
With the idea of making a desktop system, to make a tablet, to make a mobile phone, even if they have a lot of resources, they are still dead.
However, you can't just look at the failed side of Microsoft.
They've been successful in a lot of areas.
SEARCH ENGINE: BING, HOME GAME CONSOLE: XBOX, MICROSOFT MAIL, ETC.
Eliminated projects are cancelled, and successful projects remain as part of the group system.
The reason why the success rate of the project is so high has to be said is because of Takahashi.
As a person who has returned to the past and gone against the tide of time, Takahashi's success can be said to be not accidental, but inevitable.
Just look at it necessarily big or small.
However, to the scale of 10,000 households today.
can bear the consequences of trial and error failure, so, even in the era after Takahashi crossed, Wanhu will still exist.