Eric watched his daughter in his arms staring at the nine-square grid in Steve Mitnick's hand for about half a minute, thinking that this question was a little difficult, and was about to remind the little guy that the sum of the three connected numbers should be 15, and the Hawaiian little hand pointed in the center of the nine-square grid: "The middle is 5." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Steve Mitnick, Ian Gnier, and Tina Brown, who were far away in Boston, all looked at each other in even greater surprise. This problem is much harder than just a simple summation of numbers.

Steve Mitnick reached out and filled in the number 5 in the center of the grid, and Hawaii quickly filled the grid to the sum of any three numbers in a straight line of 15.

After looking back and forth between the nine-square grid in his hand and the small dot on the opposite side for a moment, Steve Mitnick came back to his senses from surprise and said with a smile: "Eric, remember "Men in Black", although I never thought that you guy was a Pandora, but your daughter may really be. ”

There is no father who is not happy about his child's intelligence, and Eric said proudly, "Even if it is a Pandora, it is also my daughter, and this must not be wrong." ”

The two joked, but Hawaii retorted solemnly: "I'm not from Pandora, my mother said it was just a joke in the movie." It's time for you to tell me how Yahoo Search works. ”

"Of course," Steve Mitnick nodded, and seeing that Eric did not object, began to briefly explain the principles of search engine algorithms to the little one, and Ian Gnier and Tina Brown also interjected from time to time with great interest.

After just two questions, Steve Mitnick no longer treats the little ones in front of him as a child who is not yet five years old, and explains in detail the information scraping, data processing and user retrieval functions required by search engines.

After chatting like this for half an hour, Steve Mitnick concluded: "So, Xia Xia, if you can create intelligent algorithms that mimic human thinking abilities in the future, then machines with such algorithms can be just as good as humans, or even better than humans." ”

Because his daughter was doing it with her back to her, Eric didn't notice the little girl's eyes shining brighter and bigger, and he had no way of knowing what kind of door Steve Mitnick's words opened in his daughter's heart.

After Steve Mitnick said this, Eric said, "Steve, aren't you afraid that my daughter will build Skynet to destroy the world?"

Steve Mitnick nodded expectantly, with a hint of madness in his eyes: "If Xia Xia can really do it in the future, I will be willing to be killed by the T-800." ”

"Would you rather I be reluctant, I don't want my daughter to have these messy pursuits, she just needs to be her own daughter in peace. Other daughters buy a Hermes at a time, and my family Xia Xia buys a car at a time. ”

Steve Mitnick rolled his eyes, looked at Hawaii and said, "Hey, Xiaxia, do you feel that your dad is vulgar?"

"Well," the little girl nodded seriously, forgetting that she had despised her father just now, and turned her head and said, "Dad, can I use the computer in the future?"

Eric said, "Baby, we've agreed that you'll have to wait until you're at least six years old. ”

Steve Mitnick heard the conversation between the father and daughter, and said dissatisfied: "Eric, with Xia Xia's current IQ, let alone six years old, she is smarter than a sixteen-year-old child, and you are just restraining her like this." ”

Eric looked at the camera and said, "I don't want Xia Xia to grow up and complain that I didn't give her a childhood." ”

"How do you know you're giving her what she wants," Steve Mitnick retorted, and then said to Hawaii, "Xiaxia, don't pay attention to your dad, you can secretly use the computer while he's not around." ”

The little man's expression was very disappointed, but he still shook his head and said, "No, my father doesn't agree, my mother won't agree, if I use it secretly, my mother will be sad, I don't want to make my mother sad." ”

The three big men are nothing, Tina Brown, who has become a mother, heard the words of the little girl, and suddenly her mother's love was overflowing, her eyes were a little wet, and she opened her mouth to crusade against Eric and said: "Eric, listen, can such sensible words be said by an ordinary four or five-year-old child, I suddenly feel that you are really hateful." ”

"Eric, as long as there is moderation, it is actually nothing for children to use computers," Ian Gnier, who had been relatively few words, couldn't help but speak.

Eric was actually quite moved in his heart, and quickly 'surrendered' and said to his daughter: "Okay, but, Xia Xia, you must let your mother be by your side when you use the computer." ”

Seeing the little girl nodding happily, Steve Mitnick interjected again: "Eric, I think we should also hire a math teacher for Xia Xia, and teach math directly from junior high school." ”

"I think we'd better get down to business," Eric ignored Steve Mitnick's words and said to the daughter in his arms, "Now, Xiaxia, Daddy has promised you, now you can go out and play." ”

"Daddy, can I listen here, I'll be obedient," said the little girl, with her eyes wide open.

Eric always felt that his daughter's expression was very similar to Emma's coquettishness, but he didn't think much about it, he just thought that children were probably like this, nodded, but said softly in a gentle tone: "Actually, Xia Xia, you don't need to know so many things at all, the knowledge in this world is endless, no matter how smart a person is, it is impossible to obtain one-ten-thousandth of all the knowledge in this world in a lifetime, sometimes, you just need to master the channels to obtain knowledge, and get the information you want when you need it." ”

Speaking of this, some thoughts flashed through Eric's mind, looked up at the camera, and said to the three people opposite: "Ian, Steve, Tina, do you know the 100th power of 10, there seems to be such a special word, I remember, someone used this word to describe endless data." I've been thinking about spinning off our search engine into a completely independent sub-brand, and I think that our search engine should also have the ambition to collect and organize all the data in the world. Well, this search engine is named after this word. Google, what do you guys think?"

Eric said, writing the word 'google' in the margin of a document in front of him, and then placed it in front of the camera to show it to the three people opposite.

Tina Brown and Ian Gnier naturally had no opinion, and just as they were about to nod, Steve Mitnick said: "Eric, the pronunciation of this word is correct, but you misspelled it, 10 to the 100th power, this professional word should be 'googol', not 'google'." ”

Steve Mitnick also wrote down the correct spelling in his notebook.

Eric smiled and showed the word in his hand to Ian Gnier and Tina Brown, and then gestured to the word in Steve Mitnick's hand, and said, "Although I misspelled it, I think this 'google' in my hand should look better than 'googol', right?"

Tina Brown and Ian Gnier both chuckled and nodded, and Steve Mitnick also compared, agreeing with Eric in his heart, but still said: "But this is too lax, if anyone knows that you misspelled the name of our search engine in the future, they will definitely be ridiculed." ”

Eric disagreed: "Only losers will be ridiculed, and when our 'Google' becomes the world's largest search engine, then everyone will only think that my misspelling at this point is a very interesting anecdote." And, since I can think that maybe the right 'googol' domain name has already been registered, you'd better have someone get their hands on our 'google' domain today."

In the next year, I hope you will do your best to build this search engine sub-brand. As I said a long time ago, Yahoo in my heart should never be an online media company, it should be an online technology company, and we want to provide Internet users with tools to browse the online world, not content, because no matter how large Yahoo is, we cannot meet the differentiated needs of hundreds of millions of Internet users for content.

Portals are destined to be only the product of the initial stage of the Internet, as people's understanding of the Internet deepens, they will want to gradually get rid of the media content we take the initiative to provide, and take the initiative to find what they are interested in, so the search engine is the future of the Internet. ”

Ian Gnier and Steve Mitnick both nodded in agreement, but they couldn't help but look at Tina Brown.

Tina Brown has been in charge of Yahoo's media content division. If Eric intends to weaken Yahoo's image as an Internet media company, Tina Brown will surely be marginalized in the future.

Although she agrees with Eric's point of view, Tina Brown inevitably has a little loss in her expression.

Eric naturally understood the thoughts of the three people opposite, smiled, and said, "Tina, don't worry, you won't be marginalized, I remember I still said that Yahoo's other business focus in the future, I don't know if you have forgotten?"

Tina Brown thought for a moment and said, "You mean, social networks. ”

Eric nodded, "yes, social networks." The reason why I say that Yahoo, no matter how big it is, cannot meet the content needs of all Internet users is because we have a limited number of employees and cannot provide all Internet users with what they want. Moreover, with the development of the Internet, other media companies will naturally build their own media content platforms. However, there is one group that is enough to compete with all media companies that want to develop Internet content platforms in terms of content production, and that is the huge user base of the Internet.

As with search engines, we only need to build a well-established social network to envelop this huge user base in our hands. When the time comes, in fact, our social network will be the largest media platform in the world.

So, while taking care of the content department of Yahoo Portal, I hope that you will put more attention to the operation of Yahoo's personal homepage in the future. Although in my mind, this is not the ultimate form of social networking, running a Yahoo profile well can also accumulate experience for the development of social networks in the future. ”

Tina Brown no longer had the loss in her eyes, and after listening to Eric, she thought for a moment and said, "In this case, Eric, why don't we set up a special subsidiary on our Yahoo personal homepage like a search engine?"

"Of course I thought so, but the time is still very premature," Eric shook his head: "The Internet is developing much faster than I thought, so now is a good time to increase investment in the search engine business, but if you want to popularize social networks, I still hope to wait until people can log in to the Internet anytime and anywhere, and then promote it." ”

Ian Gnier suddenly said, "Eric, this should be the purpose of you asking us to develop that mobile client operating system, and the YahooPad project of Firefly Electronics?"

Since Ian Gnier saw through it, Eric didn't hide it, and nodded: "Yes, actually, YahooPad is only the first step. It is still very inconvenient for this machine to connect to the Internet anytime and anywhere, and it can only be connected to the Internet in the case of having a wifi hotspot network, so if you want to promote this machine in the future, the first thing we have to do is to popularize the wifi hotspot network to the whole country. As for the future, I hope that the mobile communication networks of several major telecommunications companies can meet the function of connecting to the Internet at any time, in fact, some of the current mobile communication networks have been able to realize the function of connecting to the Internet, but the high cost is not at all affordable for ordinary people. ”

Yahoo has a very close relationship with Firefly Electronics, and Ian Gnier has also seen some information on WiFi technology, and when he heard that Eric planned to lay out a WiFi hotspot network across the country, he couldn't help but say: " Eric, laying wifi hotspot network in the country, this is almost equivalent to building a new mobile communication network, even if it is the three major telecommunications companies, I am afraid it will not be easy to do this, you know, even if it is a regional mobile communication network in one city and one place, the construction cost is calculated in billions, not to mention the national network. ”

Eric remembered the McDonald's, KFC and Starbucks chains all over the big cities and towns in the United States, smiled, and said, "I didn't say that I didn't say that I would build a large-scale mobile communication network like a telecommunications company, you can concentrate on doing your own thing, and you will know when the time comes." (To be continued.) )