Chapter 43: Wikipedia

The concept of "academic alliance" is not the first to be put forward by Chen Bo, there are such professional websites at home and abroad, and in 98 years the World Bank initiated a project called "National Basic Knowledge Network", that is, CNKI. It is mainly used to check the plagiarism of the content of the paper, and it is charged to users.

The Ant Academic Alliance of Chen Bo's plan is completely free and open to share papers and literature, increasing academic exchanges between schools. For valuable scientific papers, we will also follow the opinions of the school, teachers and students for a fee.

At the same time, it covers the school's library, and each school's collection of books is completely different, with a different focus, and it is not uncommon for there to even be rare books. CNKI relies on grants and fees to maintain its operation, while Ant uses the profits from search ads to pay for its expenses and drive more valuable traffic.

Both Ant Public Welfare and the Academic Alliance are tentatively scheduled for mid-to-late June, which not only has enough time to organize activities, but also can rub off on the popularity of the college entrance examination.

After arranging the next plan, the whole company began to operate in an orderly manner, which is what Chen Bo is more pleased with, even if he is not there, there is a corporate system and corporate culture to restrain employees, and he will not slack off because of this.

After being busy with the ant side, there are also board meetings of the entire group, and now each company has developed for a period of time, and each company is relatively independent in operation, unlike at the beginning, when it was necessary to adjust resources in the middle, now it is much easier.

QQ members, Tencent games, wireless value-added three arrows, revenue is naturally needless to say, half-year profit is expected to reach 220 million, is about to laugh at the entire Huaxia Internet, next year to go public, this report is definitely bright enough.

Mo Fei's car network is also transitioning from a pure media platform to a multi-functional car service, not only acquiring a local "Kailide Navigation" company, with the intention of occupying more car peripheral markets, but also building a related B2C e-commerce platform, which is also developing rapidly.

"Xiaobo, how about you say that we love car network to try the GEM of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange?"

The pot on the dining table was bubbling with bubbles, and every time he returned to Pengcheng, he would get together with Zhang Yiming and Mo Fei to have a few drinks, remembering the old feelings when he started his business.

"Running out of money in the company's account?" The chopsticks in Chen Bo's hand did not stop, sweating profusely and scooping up the fat beef slices in the pot.

"Yes, yes, but don't you have to burn money to do more projects, I'm ready to do a big job!"

"Then you can try." Chen Bo saw that he was so ambitious, so he said.

The volume of the car network is at most a medium-sized website, not enough to see, since he is willing to toss it, it is up to him to go, even if it falls short in the end.

"You're teaching me how to make more money?"

"What's that? You're going public to make money. Chen Bo almost sprayed him in the face, "The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is not a share, you make a good PPT, and if you have a financial statement, you can make money casually, and the investors there are very professional, not so easy to fool." The current users of the car network are not advantageous, talk more about the concept of the future, you have not acquired the navigation developer, then do the Internet of Vehicles, the future of the use of cars to connect to the Internet. ”

"Good, good. Or are you smart! Just do this Internet of Vehicles, I am not a circle of money, it is financing! Just drank too much, mouth scoop! Mo Fei's eyes lit up.

"Two more fish balls and enoki mushrooms." Zhang Yiming ignored them and shouted at the boss again, in his heart, in addition to dealing with the computer, he only had to eat, and he was almost thirty years old and didn't have a girlfriend, which also gave Chen Bo a headache.

"There's another thing I'm particularly curious about." Mo Fei smiled and said, "What is it like to be a star in Hollywood?" ”

"Fuck off, you and I will be a stallion like you." Chen Bo didn't have a good airway.

"And, men are all the same, you see this guy eats happily, and his heart is dirtier than ours. The ones in his hard drive, ordinary people can't down! Mo Fei didn't care, and pointed to Zhang Yiming, who was eating fiercely.

“…… You all stand and talk without backache, don't pull the topic on me!! "No matter how honest Zhang Yiming is, he will always feel embarrassed when his unknown side is revealed, his face rises like a pig's liver, and he doesn't know if it's because of the alcohol or if he is too excited.

"When did you become such gossip when I said?" Chen Bo leaned his neck and drank a glass of beer.

"Ahem, there's a lot of gossip about you on the Internet. Look at that Julie, convex and backward, plump lips and thin waist, I can't stand just looking at the photos, let alone a real person. You don't have any idea when you're standing with her? ”

"Also, there's Google's Mayer, who has a good back. The kid you're holding in your hands isn't really an illegitimate child, is it? Zhang Yiming came to his senses and shouted at the top of his voice.

Chen Bo quickly picked up a piece of fatty beef from the pot and dipped it in millet spicy, and stuffed it into his mouth with lightning speed, he was a complete Lingnan man, and he couldn't eat a little chili, especially the hot variety of millet spicy, pinching his throat and almost spitting out fire.

"Let's be honest, when the media has the truth, they all take it out of context to attract attention, and I was asked at the airport if I went to the United States to get married."

"Your uncle! It's spicy to me, ahem......"

After being full of wine and food, Mo Fei proposed to find a club to continue the stall, Chen Bo casually found an excuse to dodge, it was not his pursuit to be drunk and drunk, even if there was pressure, he couldn't waste his energy in that kind of place.

I came to the office early the next morning and received an uninvited guest from the United States.

"Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, takes the liberty of interrupting." The person who came was a middle-aged man, Wikipedia, he knew that it was free of public welfare, and the maintenance costs were all donated by netizens, which was founded half a year earlier than Ant Encyclopedia.

"You're welcome, I don't know what happened to Mr. Wales coming all the way to Pengcheng this time?"

Chen Bo got straight to the point, he didn't have any friendship with him, and he wasn't familiar with this person's routines, so he might as well be direct.

"Well, I'm asking for help from Ant Charity."

"What do you mean? Do you have any difficulties with this? Chen Bo didn't know why.

"It's Wikipedia, and I'm planning to set up a foundation to be responsible for the fundraising and operation of Wikipedia, so I want to talk about cooperation with Ant Charity."

"Have you communicated with Laurena?"

"She rejected my proposal." Wales shook his head.

"If it were me, I would also deny it, since the wiki is now unable to make ends meet, so why not seek advertising support, not only to have the funds to continue to operate, but also to double your value." Chen Bodao.

"I tried to advertise on it last year, but since the establishment of the wiki, it is an electronic encyclopedia that allows netizens to share knowledge, and many netizens are worried that too many advertisements will affect the experience, so they have raised doubts, and I can only choose to continue to do public welfare, after all, these knowledge are also contributed by netizens. In Spain, there were even users who wanted to remake an encyclopedia site, so I gave up and chose to move away from commercialization. ”

Chen Bo really doesn't know what to say about him at this time, you are also hypocritical when the user is hypocritical? I can't use the traffic in my hand, I can't make money and I have to post the money upside down, and I rely on netizens to raise donations to solve it, which is also too dick silk temperament.

"When I was a child, I was full of curiosity about all kinds of encyclopedias, and now I think that knowledge should belong to all mankind, and it should not be shelved because of money." Gotcha, say you're fat and you're still panting!

Chen Bo thought for a while and said, "I remember that the British Dictionary was available for free download a few years ago, but it was quickly crushed by the influx of users from all over the world, and if you want to maintain it, you have to pay for it, so the British Dictionary has to choose a charging model." I can understand your feelings, but the world is very realistic. Truth be told, users want everything to be free, it's because you're too persistent. ”

Wales has only gained one fame between fame and fortune, and the word Lizi has gradually drifted away, otherwise he would not have been so depressed that he would ask for help everywhere, and he would have come to Chen Bo.

"Do you have to choose to be a non-profit model?" Chen Bo stared into his eyes and asked.

"Well, that's all there is to it." Wales has a bitter face, he is purely cocooning, Wikipedia is his famous work, and it is difficult for him to escape this cage.

This reminded Chen Bo of a thought-provoking little story, saying that he was a soldier at a frontier post who had been guarding in very difficult conditions for three years, and he was originally going to be transferred back to the mainland to marry a wife and have children. But at this time, rewards came up, they were rated as models, reporters traveled through mountains and rivers to interview, and the media rushed to report, so that an ordinary person was full of all kinds of tall halos.

But if you want to be a model, you can't go to a place with better conditions, for this aura, he chose to keep it for three years and three years, until he couldn't keep it, he never lived the life of an ordinary person, and who knows the bitterness in his heart?

"Let's make a deal." Chen Bo picked up the coffee pot and filled the cup that had been emptying in front of Wales, and said softly.

"What deal?"

"How about selling me the wiki?"

"No, no, no, the wiki is like my child......"

"It's never too late for you to refuse after listening to my conditions." Chen Bo interrupted him with a smile and said, "With $10 million in cash or 1.5% of Ant Company's equity, Ant Encyclopedia and Wikipedia will be combined into one and operated under Ant as a sub-brand." You are still directly responsible, all the funds are provided by the company, and it is still a non-profit project, so that you are not bound by funds, and you have fame and fortune, how about it? ”

"OK or Wikipedia?"

"Of course!"

"Are you sure you don't want to run any profitable ads?"

"Except for promoting Ant's own products and a small number of public service announcements, there is already an Ant public welfare anyway, and I don't care about adding a Wikipedia to the top-level navigation bar."

"What if you break your promise?"

"Then you can take the wiki and continue to look for a home, but I don't think you have this opportunity, I see the wiki as the most important part of the search business."

Wales's face was still a little hesitant, it was not easy to find such a generous person, and even companies like Google and Microsoft would not spend money in vain to maintain a free online electronic dictionary product that is simply not profitable.