Chapter 0931 - The Smoke of the Browser War

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Some things are tacit -- although the US military is unwilling to sell the retired aircraft carrier to Mr. the richest man, the United States will certainly be happy to see it become the richest man packing the Russian aircraft carrier, completely breaking the idea of confrontation between the other side's navy. Pen Γ— fun Γ— Pavilion www. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

More importantly, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier built in the Soviet era, the third ship of the Kuznetsov class, the Ulyanovsk, which the United States was really afraid of, was stupidly demolished by Ukraine when it was 40 percent built.

On the other hand, the four aircraft carriers that Mr. the richest man now so-called packaging the Russian Navy are all Kiev-class one level behind the Kuznetsov class.

This is the general trend - with the current strength of the richest man, the load that his shoulders can resist can be said to be easy to operate.

However, Tang Huan hopes that the media hype will be enough to go to the aircraft carrier hotel - grasp the heat, and public opinion can be used by me; Otherwise, it will only backfire and pull hatred.

After all, after 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, after the current regime that has infinitely flattered the West has stepped down, Russia, which has been tortured to death by "shock therapy," will basically move from love and hatred to another direction -- it is now blowing too hard and needlessly, and it is easy to come up with it when the time comes.

Tang Huan quietly strategized, including leaving a way back for himself - he was just a benevolent businessman who would be admired by all parties and willing to socialize!

In addition, after intuitively learning about the four aircraft carriers decommissioned by Russia this time, Tang Huan found that this kind of Kiev-class aircraft carrier, which is positioned as an "aviation cruiser," can also play around by himself -- as long as it can calm the panic of Southeast Asian countries and send it to the Funan Navy.

It is based on these considerations that Mr. the richest man does not want the media, which is afraid of chaos in the world, to irritate Russia, which is still in the negotiation period with him.

quickly turned the topic of packing the Russian Navy over, Tang Huan turned to the movie "Titanic" to attract the attention of the media, and praised the trip for the help of the United Kingdom, Russia and other parties.

In this way, it can be regarded as an official recognition of the existence of the "Titanic" project - James Cameron has quickly risen from the level of directing a budget film of 100 million US dollars to the level of directing a budget film of 150 million US dollars.

The reporters were really led astray by the richest man and began to discuss "Titanic", such as who would become the hero and heroine of such a big production.

In fact, after Tang Huan came back this time, when he was dealing with housework and visiting the new son of Tang, he also specially asked his foreign girls who were interested in the heroine of "Titanic". But due to the schedule, character positioning, workload, director James Cameron's reputation as a tyrant on the set, etc., no one wants to get close to the water.

In this way, the casting of "Titanic" is really serious.

However, although these specific matters are worth mentioning for Hollywood and the media, in the eyes of the richest man who has already laid out the layout, it is pediatrics, and there are only three real major events in front of him this year - the COMDEX Las Vegas Fall Show, which shows the fierce competition in the industry, the second APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Bogor, Indonesia, and the economic trend of Mexico.

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Looking at those new .com domain names that were registered in one go, the number of which was more than his son, Tang Huan couldn't help but laugh, because there are also Yahoo - yahoo.com, Amazon - Amazon.com although the business entity has been established, but because the commercial value and prospects are still to be seen, and for the time being, they have not taken care of the .com domain names they have registered.

The dignified Mr. the richest man, preemptively registering the domain name of the little shrimp .com, is inevitably suspected of being unkind - in fact, he is not a heart, after drawing a circle, it is his subordinates who will implement it, and can only blame Yang Zhiyuan and Jeff Bezos for their slow action.

Tang Huan, who personally participates in angel investment activities at least once a quarter, has long been familiar with the website information retrieval service "Jerry's_Guide_to_the_World_Wide_Web", that is, "Jerry's Internet Guide", which runs on a computer in a student apartment at Stanford University. Its founders, David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan, who are still graduate students, are private workers.

As Tang Huan predicted at last year's COMDEX Las Vegas Fall Show, the number of World Wide Web websites this year has increased by more than 10 times to more than 10,000 -- and if this trend continues, it will exceed 100,000 next year.

The World Wide Web, which has no licensing fees, has proliferated the number of websites, but it has also brought confusion to Internet users.

It is estimated that the bosses of David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan were so generous that they had the leisure to compile an index of these sites for other Internet users to use, and then stepped on the drumbeat of the times by chance, and the number of hits was about to exceed 1 million due to their popularity.

As a result, "Jerry's Web Guide" was changed to the catchy "Yahoo", and in order to distinguish it from the registered trademark "Yahoo" for existing products such as barbecue sauce and knives, an exclamation point was added to the end and changed to "Yahoo! But I just forgot to spend $100 to sign up for "yahoo.com".

I have to say that smart people often have a time when they are secret.

It is not difficult to imagine that Yahoo now, in terms of technology, does not have much technical content, and is a software "database" that can be customized and can update the website index information at any time.

It is no exaggeration to say that for Yahoo, who has only shown sharp corners of Xiaohe, the richest man with too much capital, whether he looks down on it or replaces it, there is nothing to say.

However, he still quietly watched this little seedling, growing up according to his instinct with natural ecology. Guy, Yahoo's great thing is that it is inherently equipped with a new and viable mode of operation.

The richest man owns AOL, but AOL's model does not represent the entire Internet and the World Wide Web.

Although AOL is not as qualified as its competitors in the online service field, it is certainly no problem that it is older than Yahoo, and it was formed in 1983 when the ARPA network was divided into military and civilian parts, and TCP/IP began to become a common protocol.

Due to the lack of resources in the era of Internet pioneering, the operation mode of such online services has been to try to provide all the Internet access content by themselves from the beginning, and to lease network lines on a large scale, or even build their own network lines, to become Internet_Service_Provider Internet service providers, that is, ISPs.

Compared with AOL's "hard" model, which keeps users in circles, Yahoo represents a "soft" path to provide navigation capabilities for the portal because the Internet resources have begun to explode so much that users are at a loss.

Yahoo's main job is to set up servers, maintain its own "website database", and provide an attractive navigation page that takes up the entry point to the Internet with countless websites, without having to rent lines and control users to its own website.

To put it more lofty, or even politically ~ more correct, Yahoo represents freedom~ freedom and openness, and truly explains the spiritual essence of the Internet.

Of course, this does not mean that AOL is on the wrong path, Yahoo is on the right path -- the different stages of the Internet have contributed to different road trade-offs and operational characteristics, and if you do it rigidly, it will only be a dead end.

Moreover, AOL still represents the mainstream at this stage - Yahoo's website navigation directory is in the front row, and it must have its place.

Under Tang Huan's guidance, AOL has embraced the World Wide Web many times faster than its competitors in online services, and it can be said that its path has always been "right".

However, if you want to make AOL a more "correct" step and change to the mode of the web portal, it is impossible, not to mention that the mode of the portal has just emerged, and it is impossible to give up the existing content resources of AOL alone, and the online service model has been "correct" to the depth of his genes, and it can only fine-tune its sailing direction with the development of the Internet.

In this case, the value of the incomparably new Yahoo to the richest man is reflected - it can not only meet the layout of not putting eggs in one basket, but also greatly reduce the cost of mastering the portal model.

As for the value of David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan, they are similar to James Cameron, who is dedicated to filming "Titanic", and the persistence in this bone is not easy to find.

You must know that with the strength of only two people, it is a manual work to organize the information of thousands of websites into an indexing service, but it is definitely not possible without enthusiasm.

Tang Huan casually opened the Yahoo page on his computer, and couldn't help but smile to himselfβ€”the server in David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan's apartment was so overwhelmed that it was about to strike.

Meng Jing, the little cousin who was sorting out the information on the side, couldn't help but roll her eyes after seeing Tang Huan's scheming and complacent expression, "Brother, you have preemptively registered so many .com domain names, aren't you afraid that others will say that you will bully the small?" ”

"Silly girl, with these domain names, we can virtually try not to miss any fish in the layout." Tang Huan laughed, "When someone comes to inquire about the transfer of the domain name, it is equivalent to an event trigger on the program, and I don't know how much effort is saved." ”

Meng Jing nodded suddenly, "Then you have chanted Yahoo's name several times, are you planning to catch this fish that slipped through the net?" ”

"Yahoo isn't a fish that slipped through the net, it's a fish in my pool." Tang Huan replied playfully: "By the way, Yahoo's hits are about to exceed 1 million, it is estimated that David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan, two poor graduate students, should also have an idea of the commercial value of the work they are interested in. After this busy time, arrange for everyone to come to a meeting. ”

"Got it." Meng Jing agreed, and then handed over a document, "This year's COMDEX Las Vegas Fall Show is really a rare competition, not to mention the addition of Sony's Playstation in the field of home TV game consoles, just Polestar, a browser software of Zheru Software Company, Polaris, has a new competitor." ”

Tang Huan looked at the document and said calmly: "This Netscape - Netscape Company I know that Jim Clark, who left Silicon Valley Graphics, invested $4 million to establish a small company - the browser market, which has not many of it, and there is not a lot of it. ”

"You've repeatedly stressed to us that the competition on the Internet platform is free of charge." Meng Jing reminded: "Compared to Polestar, which is a commercial software and is temporarily free in the name of promotion, now Netscape_Navigator Netscape Navigator has no hesitation to position itself as a shareware as soon as the official version of 1.0 is launched, which is really free, which is menacing and not comparable to other competitors." ”

"Polestar is technologically ahead and has a first-mover advantage in market share, so it's not afraid of Netscape_Navigator disruptions." Tang Huan waved his hand relaxedly, "Netscape_Navigator want to grab market share by relying on clean and free means, then I can also spend money to buy others to use Polestar through multiple software product package promotions and secret subsidies." ”

Meng Jingwan said: "Brother, you have to pay attention, although Zheru Software has been spun off and has reached an anti-monopoly settlement with the Federal Ministry of Justice, there are still people staring at it - it is too domineering and easy to give people a handle." ”

"Also, when it comes to promotions, I remember that Polestar's browser homepage was sold to AOL; If we support Yahoo again, the relationship between this small alliance will be a bit difficult to coordinate. ”