Wei Jinzhen did have a sincere second checklist, mainly choosing 378 technologies for search and image processing. Although artificial intelligence is very cutting-edge, it is still far from being applied, and it is not in a hurry to obtain it.

Although Jiangyan does not make a search platform, many software have a search function.

With the R&D strength of Jiangyan Company, it can slowly catch up, and this cycle may be five years, ten years, or even ten years is not enough. If you get Google's search technology, you can make leaps and bounds and save a lot of time in search.

Search engines need to manage the crawled results, and when more and more indexed results are indexed, it is becoming more and more difficult to ensure storage and query speed, and to ensure that the content of tens of thousands of servers is consistent.

Google published three papers before Jiang Yan was founded, describing three technologies to solve these problems: GFS, BigTable, and MapReduce.

Since Google did not publish the details of the algorithm, Yahoo took the lead and established the open source project Hadoop around 06, with the aim of implementing a large-scale management computing system based on three Google papers.

Until '08, Hadoop was still several times behind some of the key metrics published by Google.

Baidu was once led by a Ph.D. from Academician Wang, who wanted to independently implement a system of its own based on Google's papers, but the project was too difficult to develop, and eventually turned to Hadoop.

Today, Amazon and Facebook, Yahoo and Baidu are all using Hadoop on a large scale, while Google has migrated to the new troika Caffeine, Pregel, and Dremel since the beginning of the decade.

In terms of search technology alone, Google is not ahead of Baidu, but ahead of the world.

In the past two years, Google has unveiled Spanner, the world's first global database system, which connects data centers around the world and uses atomic clocks and GPS to break geographical boundaries and achieve a consistent and real-time database on a global scale. Before Google, many people thought that such a system was impossible to make.

In cooperation with Google, Jiang Yan's main goal is Google's search technology, and if these technologies can be obtained, maybe Jiang Yan can develop a search platform independently.

Moreover, this search platform, the technical level can leap beyond Baidu, coupled with the user traffic of Jiangyan Company, it can instantly become the largest search platform in China, what is this concept.

Google's image processing technology is also very good, and Jiang Yan has Weibo pictures and the Meitu App, which can be used.

The technical level of Weibo images and the Meitu App is not very high, the former is mainly for new models, and the latter is mainly convenient and easy to use. The Meitu App is not a professional image processing software, but an image processing software used for popularization.

However, this does not mean that Jiangyan does not need high-end image processing technology, in addition to being applied to Weibo pictures and the Meitu App, cats can also be used as camera software.

Because Jiang Yan has too many products, search and image processing are not the main business, so it is impossible for the company to spend too much money to improve. It can be said that it is a great opportunity to come across Google's door-to-door cooperation.

It took Wei Jinji more than twenty minutes to check it out, and then handed the list back to the other party for review.

But after reading it, Adela still frowned, and after a little discussion with his colleague, he replied: "Sorry, we can't accept this list because it involves too many of our company's core technologies." ”

Sheng Qing clearly looked forward to it, but they had long expected that things would not be so simple, so they could sit still.

"This list also involves a lot of core technologies of our company, not to mention that you can develop them with a little more time, isn't the reason why we are sitting here is to save R&D time?" Wei Jinzhen said.

"Mr. Adela, I hope you can understand one thing, China is different from any other country in the world, in many areas of the Chinese market, foreign companies are more advanced, but they still return home. Similarly, due to language and cultural differences, it is difficult for Chinese Internet products to enter the international market. Even if we help Google return to the Chinese market, it will be difficult for you to compete with local search platforms. If we exchange technology, you can capture the international market in the cloud field as soon as possible, and in the same way, we can also get a piece of the search field in China, which is beneficial to both of us. As far as we know, foreign companies such as Amazon and Microsoft are growing rapidly in this field, and your competitors are not us, but them. Zhuang Dingning said.

Before making a decision, you must find out who the real enemy is, if you can't even figure out the enemy, blindly fighting is just a waste of energy, so that others can benefit.

Sometimes our real opponents are often not the people opposite us, but the people around us.

Hang Yu is very clear about this reason, so although he attaches great importance to competing with foreign companies, he is also very cautious about his domestic counterparts. Sometimes you can cooperate with your domestic counterparts to deal with foreign companies, and sometimes you can also cooperate with foreign companies to deal with your domestic counterparts.

Similarly, Google's real rival is not necessarily a Chinese company, not necessarily Baidu Jiangyan.

"I admit what you say, but search is our main industry, and we can't trade it for you. If we can, we can exchange it for artificial intelligence, as well as other product technologies. Adela said.

"Although cloud computing is not your main business now, believe me, for an Internet company, cloud computing is definitely the pillar industry of the future. And this future is not far away from us, unlike artificial intelligence, which will have to wait for decades, cloud computing can see results in a maximum of ten years, and enough benefits can be obtained. Zhuang Dingning said.

"Your Excellency knows us very well. Adela said.

Obviously, the other party did not expect Jiang Yan's understanding of Google to be so deep, and as the negotiation topic deepened, the situation was gradually out of their control.

Google's goal is to acquire Jiangyan's cloud technology and the Chinese market, but according to Zhuang Dingning, they should give up the Chinese market and only get cloud technology to compete with Amazon and Microsoft.

This shift has deviated from Google's strategy, so Adela is not left with a decision for a while.

The main reason is that cloud technology is important, but Adela and even Google executives have not yet figured out how important cloud technology is, and the question before Adela is which is more important, cloud computing or search technology.

It's not that Google's top IQ is bad, it's the result of needs and traditional ways of thinking.

Regardless of the direction of big data, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and all other next-generation Internet outlets, cloud computing technology is needed behind them. The essence of the new economy is the Internet economy, and the essence of the Internet economy is the computing economy, and the cornerstone of the computing economy is still cloud computing.

To put it more simply, computers are also called computers, and computing power is the foundation.

The importance of cloud computing is mainly reflected in two aspects, one is the role of the company itself, and the other is that it has a broad market. The bigger the product, the more important the computing power, for example, the e-commerce transaction volume is so large, if the computing power is not good, it will become a dog.

With the development of the times, user demand is getting higher and higher, and there are many Internet companies in China with limited basic computing power, and their products will gradually fail to keep up with the times.

For example, some domestic video websites were good at the beginning, but after a few years, they became dogs. It's not that they're lagging behind, it's that the basic computing power is not enough, and no matter how much they do, they can't save the decline.

In the future, the Internet giants will compete for computing power, and the computing power is strong enough, and they can play any product very slippery. On the contrary, no matter how clever your product model is, it is in vain if it cannot support user needs.

As for the market of cloud computing, it is also very easy to understand, take the products I just mentioned are good, but because the computing power is not good, what if they don't have the money to build a large database?

But using someone else's cloud server is not without risk, for example, a certain bean uses Jiang Yan's cloud server, and the fluency naturally goes up, but a lot of data is also obtained by Jiang Yan Company.

The more companies that use Weibo Cloud, the more data Weibo Cloud gets, which is very strong.

But other companies are not stupid and will definitely resist this business model, which is also one of the difficulties in promoting cloud computing. Most of the businesses that use cloud services are small and medium-sized enterprises because they don't care much about data being obtained by giants.

Small and medium-sized enterprises often have difficulty surviving, and it is good to survive. As for its risks, it is temporarily left behind, and presumably the giants will not collapse their reputation for profit.

Why is Amazon Cloud doing so well? First of all, it has demand, as the world's largest established e-commerce, it also needs to handle a large number of transactions. If there is a demand, there is motivation, and at the same time, it can be applied in our company, and it will continue to develop in applications and challenges.

Whether a large company can continue its previous glory often depends on forward-looking research, such as the failure of Nokia's mobile phone. From our perspective today, the Nokia phone is so powerful, but the reason why it failed is so "stupid".

Perhaps it is precisely because Google's algorithm is so good that the existing computing power is sufficient, but it has not developed its cloud technology so fast.

Is the algorithm more important, is the computing power more important? Of course, it's all important.

"We need to report back to the company on the outcome of this negotiation, and perhaps we did underestimate the importance of cloud technology. Adela said.

"No problem, we still have time. Zhuang Dingning said.

The meeting was short, less than two hours, and no deal was reached.

But Jiang Yan's goal has been initially achieved, and what will happen next depends on Google's choice. If Google realizes the importance of cloud computing, then it should revisit this collaboration.

Sheng Qingming sent the Google delegation away, Zhuang Dingning leaned back in his chair and said: "What we said today is so clear, as long as Google's senior management studies it, it should be able to understand the importance of cloud computing in the future." In this way, they should change their strategic direction instead of obsessing with the Chinese market. But I don't think the other side will give up on the idea of taking cloud technology. ”

Wei Jinchen pondered: "We have seen the other party's purpose and grasped the initiative through this meeting, and it is useless for the other party to use any conspiracy and tricks. I'm not afraid of losing money, but what makes me a headache is how to get their search technology. ”

Zhuang Dingning smiled and said, "Don't worry, we still have two years." ”

At the same time, Hang Yu is planning the development of Chinese programming software, considering that this software is not specifically for Jiang Yan, but is beneficial to the entire Internet and is not profitable, Hang Yu is considering cooperating with other institutions.

Hang Yu's first thought was Jack Ma, this guy has been saying that he wants to use the Internet to change people's lives, change China, and change the world, which should be his opportunity to perform.

"Welcome to Mr. Hang. Peng Lei and Jack Ma personally received Hang Yu.

"It's all old friends, don't be so polite. Hang Yu waved his hand and said: "I have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, presumably the two of you also know my character, so let's get straight to the point." ”

"Mr. Hang is always so happy to do things, so let's talk while walking. Peng Lei said.

"Okay, by the way, take a look at the development of your company, learn about your management model and so on. Hang Yu said.

"You're so polite, we should learn from your company, your company's management style and structure are unique in the industry, and the results are remarkable. Peng Lei said enviously.

"Learning from each other, any successful business must have its strengths. Hang Yu said.

I obviously said that I wanted to get straight to the point, but somehow I dripped, and I still said a lot of nonsense.

After the visit, Hang Yu really said the purpose: "I am recently envisioning a huge Internet landscape, which is related to the future development of China's Internet, because it is a long-term layout, with our ability may not be guaranteed, I hope to get your company's support." ”

Jackma is very interested, although Hang Yu is particularly hateful, but when it comes to the Internet, it is indeed a set.

"Speak. Jackma said.

"We do the Internet every day to say a new model, a new ecology, but in essence, it is inseparable from the basis of reality. How will the basic pattern of the Internet develop? I think we can learn from the development of the real industry. Hang Yu said.

"Hang Dong Gao, please continue. Jack Mardow.

"There is a basic law of the real industry, that is, the scale is getting bigger and bigger, the number of participants is increasing, and the requirements for participants are getting higher and higher. The first industrialized countries were Spain and Portugal, two countries with millions of people. Later, Britain and France, two countries with a population of 10 million, industrialized, and with the effect of scale, they quickly pressed down the two teeth. This is not only the scale effect, but also the development advantages of industrial categories, one more category equals one more advantage, which you don't object. Hang Yu said.

Indeed, this principle also works in the field of the Internet, and one more product also has one more advantage. In particular, some key products, such as O2O, cloud computing, and social products, can be said to be crucial. Jackma said.