Chapter 33: Slapped in the face
Even though Excite is now destitute and in debt, the advantages of well-developed technical reserves, especially in machine language analysis, are the shortcomings that Ant Search needs to fill. Under the squeeze of Google, Yahoo, AOL, and Ask jeeves several major search engines, it is impossible to exist alone, and choosing to huddle together for heating is the best way.
Liu Qing also proved his ability with his actions, and in and Sundar. Pichai's cooperation is seamless, and the other party's rotten finances are clean, and the core assets that should be divested are also retained.
After several rounds of negotiations, the final plan was also very satisfactory to the board of directors of the other party, and it was successfully accepted into the account.
Li Ziqiang led the acquisition of DoubleClick, when he was in charge of Pepsi brand promotion, he had more contact with advertising channel providers, and he had a clear grasp of the context, compared with Liu Qing's financial advantages, his ability is reflected in the operation of brand establishment and market development.
This trick is to hide from the world, secretly Chen Cang, and say that he is going to buy Ask jeeves, and as a result, he will take the excite into his pocket.
The black-faced Williams not only did not attend the event, but also replaced a former vice president of PayPal, Red. Hoffman, he is very strange to ordinary people, but how can anyone who has been dealing with Silicon Valley all year round not know him.
A sub-word does not hide his talent, but rather highlights Ant Search's ambitions in the North American market.
Although it is only a small independent search engine, the news is strong enough, and the battle in the search market this year has clearly become white-hot, and it is a process of secondary reshuffle, and there are not many search technology companies left.
"Mr. Hoffman, can you tell us about the strategic plan for Ant Search?"
"Plans don't always keep up with changes, and our goal is simple, to improve the user experience with the best technology."
"Why didn't Mr. Williams show up? Is the acquisition of Ask jeeves still planned? ”
“Ask? Why buy an outdated old man, we have adjusted the operational strategy, and Williams is now mainly responsible for the integration of technical resources. ”
"After the acquisition of Excite, Ant Search's market share will rise to about 7%, will there be any other moves in the future?"
"If you're stationed in Sunnyvale, you'll find that we're doing something new every day."
"How do you get along with your mysterious Huaxia boss? Is he a harsh dictator? ”
Chen Bo has barely appeared in front of reporters in the tech world, and they have little knowledge of it, and they rightly imagine all Chinese as a red-labeled dictatorship, perhaps in their minds that they may be a balding old man.
"Of course not, he is a very ambitious and charismatic man, and I would definitely fall in love with him if I were a woman."
In the face of all kinds of difficulties from the media, Hoffman is familiar with it and can deal with it easily, which also gives Chen Bo enough face.
After the press conference, the news made Silicon Valley exclaim, "The wolf is coming." "The little ant once again set off a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the Internet industry, and when someone carefully investigated, it turned out that it was not only these two companies at all, but also LinkedIn, delicious bookmarks, and Rotten Tomatoes These unrelated entrepreneurial websites were quietly taken down.
Is it a big gamble or a discerning advance layout? Like a fog shrouded in the minds of many peers, the key is that there is also a former vice president of PayPal to take charge of the company, and when the truth is confusing, Google takes the lead.
On the second day of the press conference, Google released the integrated online advertising system AdSense, which is a form of Internet advertising based on image planning. The previous Adords used by Google existed in the form of text links, similar to the ant's nest system.
The two search engines, one big and one small, began to wrestle first, and Yahoo had not yet digested the overture, and was as quiet as a fisherman who was sitting on the benefits of a sandpiper and a mussel, standing still.
And Chen Bo is still lurking behind the scenes, silently doing the upgrading and transformation of search engine products, as well as the planning of the first Internet public welfare platform, which is another surprise for Silicon Valley. The Chinese pay attention to good things in pairs, how can one be enough, and then throw you a depth charge to make you sour and weak explosion point is fun.
The public welfare platform needs not only celebrities, but also famous enterprises and large foundations, and the bigger the influence, the more influential.
The first of these is, of course, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), although it seems that a very tall foundation, and the title of the United Nations, is actually far from so cold. The foundation, which has a permanent presence in almost every country, is largely funded by corporations and individuals, with some provided by national governments and selling its own souvenirs to raise money for children's rights.
If you want to cooperate, it is also simple, and you promise to raise $10 million in 5 years, you can donate it yourself, or you can ask employees to donate in kind, anyway, as long as you raise donations. Then you can become a global corporate partner, you will be featured in their business directory, and you can also have the right to use their logo.
This small condition is not a problem for Ant Search at all, even if you pay for it yourself, it will only be 2 million US dollars a year, which is completely affordable.
As for Mia. Faro's goodwill ambassador, there is no need for Chen Bo to complain to the United Nations, there are more than a dozen international goodwill ambassadors in F-light, who cares about you, a tainted actor? If you add ambassadors at the national and regional levels, I am afraid that there are no less than two or three hundred celebrities.
The next one targeted by Chen Bo is the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which is also the largest unofficial independent foundation, which mainly protects the world's biological diversity and living environment, and their logo is a baby panda, but the design is a bit ugly.
For the survival and development of giant pandas, F has funded domestic environmental protection and wildlife protection, and is also the first foundation to enter the country.
After Chen Bo contacted their Swiss headquarters, the other party readily agreed, and they would also send representatives to negotiate and reach a final strategic partner. As for other organizations, they will take their time in the future, and they can't chew too much, and it is enough to show off if they reach these two cooperation first.
In the list of agents sent by CAA innovative artist agency, Chen Bo found a bunch of familiar characters, not only actors, but also singers, sports stars, etc., across Europe and the United States. This resource is really not ordinarily abundant, and it is no wonder that even if Sony wanted to buy Columbia Pictures, they were given carte blanche to their founder. The commission for that transaction amounted to $40 million, and that was only in the 80s, which is almost the same as the $400 million it is today.
CAA's abacus is very fine, you are a good Internet company, and it is equivalent to a media company, because the revenue mainly depends on Internet advertising. Then if a company comes to you for advertising, you can contact them if you need an image spokesperson, and you can use ants as a business channel to expand.
At present, in addition to China, Japan, and the United States, the scope of ant search is mainly Southeast Asia. Europe is a small range, after all, the languages of that continent are too TMD, and I can't get together those languages for a while, and the common English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese are still the mainstay.
The scope is wide, so the corresponding spokesperson also has to add some celebrities to come in, and check some lists and send them to CAA, except for some who can't leave because of the schedule, they will say that they can come over to participate in the event.
If you are domestic, you can't pull people to the United States for the time being, so let's make do with the heroes and crew members first, and anyway, I won't have a good heart if I kidnap them to San Francisco. Lao Mouzi took Li Lianjie to Europe to participate in a small film festival, and others such as Chen Daoming, Liang Chaowei and Man Yuke are all there, and the international Zhang can also make up a number, and his image and popularity are not bad, so he is a goodwill ambassador in Greater China.
As for Gao Yuanyuan, she is very concerned about public welfare, and last year she donated a lot of books and old clothes to children in the mountainous areas, but how many works did she have? Scarlett was embarrassed to go up, she was not so thick-skinned, and he also felt that now was not the opportunity, so it was better to wait for the first time, so as not to be criticized again.
"I just finished the acquisition case, and now I have to help you do this, working for you is really like being a cow and a horse......" Liu Qing and Li Ziqiang, who withdrew from the project over there, turned around to help Chen Bo sort out the affairs of the public welfare project, and complained without a moment's rest.
"There are not many people, there are a lot of things, and I will send you to Hawaii for a vacation after I am busy, and I will be reimbursed for everything!" Chen Bo didn't have a good airway.
"Oh yes! Can family members bring it? ”
"Old Willow?"
"And, you know who brings that old man."
"Two is two, hurry up and get to work!" Chen Bo took a bite to take it, and the capable assistant also had to eat and drink well, which saved a lot of worries.
Snowflake-like invitations were sprinkled out, and most of them went to Hollywood, who made my master have a deeper influence over there now, so why not strike while the iron is hot and bring another wave of climax out.
"I heard you've been doing a charity event recently." Yang Zhiyuan was idle and had nothing to do, and he asked Chen Bo to play every once in a while, sometimes golf and sometimes tennis, but he was abused to the ground, which was really not deliberately let by him, and he was indeed not very good at it.
"Yes, on the navigation bar of Ant Search." As soon as Chen Bo said it simply, Yang Zhiyuan could understand the intention of this, if you don't ask you, you don't look down on you, you are an opponent yourself, if you don't come, either you have no face and are too stingy, or I don't have face and you don't take me seriously.
If it is not suitable for anything, simply do not notify and treat it coldly.
"The sword goes sideways, and you win the fairboard, and you win this move." Yang Zhiyuan nodded and said, "Do you know why I always ask you to play?" ”
Chen Bo shook his head, this was also the question he had always wanted to ask.
"Your skills are really bad, but you never asked for a handicap, and you didn't play tricks." Yang Zhiyuan made a putt, and the white ball slid straight across the grass and rolled into the hole.
"But my technology is also improving, isn't it?" Chen Bo said and took the iron rod handed by the caddy, tightened his gloves and pushed them out, but the result was that he slid through the edge of the hole and was slapped in the face, so he was not embarrassed.