Chapter 304: I didn't take the mouse seriously
The concept of search that people talk about today only came into existence in the nineties.
At that time, there was no World Wide Web, but file transfers were still very frequent, because there were too many files, and it was not convenient to query, so Archie was born, even if it was not a real search engine, and users had to enter the exact file name to find the FTP address, but at the time, it was already a very convenient tool.
With the advent of Archie, a variety of search tools have become endless, and the meaning of the birth of these tools is to allow people to save time when looking for information, but after the rapid development of the Internet, these non-civilian tools obviously cannot meet the needs of the general public, so Yahoo has changed the world.
Yahoo is certainly not a search engine, but its existence has made more people see the charm of the Internet.
As Steve Jobs said, a lot of users simply don't know what they need.
Yahoo, on the other hand, allows users who are not clear about their needs to see the possibility of asking for it.
Now that the public knows that it is not a dream to say that it is not a dream, there is a market for search engines.
That's where Infoseek comes in.
At first, Infoseek was just a humble search engine, and even the user interface and add-ons were copied from Yahoo, but after signing a partnership agreement with Netscape in December '95, its market share grew wildly.
It's different from those who only look out for the present, regardless of the future.
Infoseek knew from the beginning that they had grown up by sucking Netscape's blood, and that after leaving Netscape, there was only one possibility of violent death, so they recruited a lot of talent while consolidating their market position.
RobinLi was poached by them at the Silicon Valley academic conference in '96, and RobinLi, who wrote hyperlink analysis, lived up to expectations and led Infoseek to complete the writing of the second-generation search engine, launching the first search engine on the market to use hyperlink analysis, and then all search engines, including Google, referred to his ideas.
That's why Infoseek is the number one search engine in the industry.
Time magazine called him an 'innovator,' and it wasn't for nothing.
But it's a pity that the world's No. 1 search engine was played to death by Disney.
Because people in this era do not know what is called 'bidding ranking', so all search engines basically rely on burning money to operate, the more pages the search engine crawls, the more the cost of inclusion, plus the portal gives a fixed remuneration, so, the more websites included in the search engine, in fact, it means that the company loses more.
As a result, almost all search engines have chosen to transform into portals.
Even if they know that the most bullish portal is Yahoo, and the second bull is MSN, the market is saturated, but they still drill into it, because if they don't drill, they will die violently, and if they drill, they can continue to raise funds and survive for a while.
No way, who makes the profit model of the portal known?
In this case, Infoseek, who didn't want to die violently, didn't want to live longer, and just wanted to cash out and get out of the market, hit it off with Disney, which had deep pockets.
Disney felt that he was a cow beep, and he could make a portal if he could swallow ABC, and Infoseek also felt that he was a cow beep, and it was the best search engine on the market at the moment, so the plan to change the search engine to a portal officially started with Disney's investment, and at the same time, Disney stopped the search engine to do the most important thing......
That is to prevent RobinLi from continuing to include web pages.
A search engine doesn't include web pages, so what is the meaning of the existence of this search engine?
The biggest selling point of search engines is that they allow the general public to find what they want, and when this core selling point is emasculated by Disney, Infoseek is actually dead.
So, RobinLi, who couldn't stand all this, took the money and walked.
When he swapped all his Infoseek shares for Disney shares, which skyrocketed from $5 to $100 per share, he and his wife returned to China, and the first thing he did when he returned home was to write a book called "Silicon Valley Business Wars."
And in the years when Du Niang was not created, she complained about Disney's disgusting behavior on DoNews every day.
Who wasn't a keyboard warrior when they were younger?
As soon as the key government came out, Disney was in an uproar by diss.
And just as he expected, it only took one year for Disney to make Infoseek lose the number one position in the world, and it only took two and a half years to kill Infoseek and the newly created one.
It's no exaggeration to say that Infoseek might still have lost without Disney's help, but it definitely wouldn't have made it so easy for the other few to win, and those who won were really-
'Before I could do anything, you fell. ’
Just like after the merger of AOL and Time Warner, AOL's market value shrank by 98 percent.
Hollywood media giants don't know how many well-developed Internet head companies have been killed, and it is precisely because of their attacks that other companies have the opportunity to grow.
As the saying goes, 'football is bought in reverse, and the villa is by the sea', and 'investment is reversed, and you will never go upstairs'
The people's tycoon Ma Ke, who is now following Mr. Xu, calls Teng Million a rabble, because most of the cross-borders are failures, and the cross-border that those guys want is just to build a moat for their own companies.
If you do things with the mind that winning is a big profit, and if you lose, I won't lose anything, how can you succeed?
And follow these guys to invest......
Emmmm……
This feeling is like the aunt who sells Guilin rice noodles and Pi Pi Jia talking about stocks......
It's really's reliable!
Therefore, when Roland learned that Disney, who was working on the portal, was a little panicked, he had already forgotten about Du Niang, the forty thieves and the penguin who didn't like to eat old godmothers, and his first reaction was to wonder and ask.
"What does it have to do with Disney when I make a search engine!"
The second reaction is to cry poor.
"As the world's second-largest media conglomerate, why are they staring at me, someone who can't even make the Forbes list?"
The third reaction is to pretend to be stupid.
"I'm really just helping Amazon find a search engine provider to work with!"
“He…… tui! Roland's open-eyed nonsense behavior made the truck driver smack, and he rolled his eyes as he squatted under the umbrella and waited for the set, and said with disgust: "I don't know what kind of person you are?" Is it interesting to pretend like that? ”
"How much money do you make with those shares in Yahoo? Do you want me to give you a call and ask Ronald to do the math for you? ”
"I'm not a Forbes who evaluates net worth by guessing! I've got a witness! ”
"Okay, okay......" Looking at the old man who was about to take out his mobile phone, Roland pressed down with both hands and said, "What do you want to do?" ”
"Lend me some money." Roland stopped pretending, and the old man had a showdown.
Hearing him say this, Roland immediately frowned, glanced at him strangely, and asked, "How much do you want to borrow?" The dividends of "Titanic" can come down at the end of the year, if you have something you want to do, you will be doing it when the dividends come down, can't you? ”
Roland thought that the truck driver wanted to build a deep-sea submersible to challenge the Mariana Trench, but the truck driver thought - "Linda and I can't get along......"
After a pause, he said, "We are ready to divorce......
Get......
As soon as these words came out, Roland immediately fell silent.
The relationship between James Cameron and Linda Hamilton is nothing short of a mystery.
No one knows how they got it, but everyone knows that the relationship between them was the trigger for the divorce of James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow, the two began to fall in love with "Terminator 2", Linda Hamilton gave birth to a daughter to the old man in '93, and didn't get married until the summer of '97, but in February '99, the divorce was officially announced.
The process of the two of them falling in love, having children, getting married, and divorce is so confusing to see, no one knows why they still haven't lasted more than two years after they have a child and are sure that they can live, but-
Roland knows that, as usual, it is still the old man who cheats in marriage.
"When did you get along with Susie Emis?"
Roland touched the old man's pocket, and took out the cigarette and the lighter very familiarly.
Stuff a stick in the other person's mouth and ignite it, and then puff yourself.
"That's too ugly for you to say." The old man shook his head, took two puffs, and then pinched the cigarette butt to flick off the ashes, "The main thing is that Linda refuses to retreat from the circle, and Susie ...... She plans to retire after filming "Judgment Day......"
Susie Amis is the granddaughter of Ruth in "Titanic".
People may not be as beautiful as the old man's predecessors, but they are better than obedient.
If the old man tells her to go east, she will never go west, and if the old man tells her to face north, she will never go south.
And this is actually the weakness of many men.
He looks good and is obedient, and he is really suitable for marriage.
"Okay, how much do you want to borrow?" Roland nodded, and since the wood was already in the boat, he didn't ask more.
"You've signed a prenuptial agreement, right? How much is the breakup fee? ”
"She has a house in Los Angeles, and the child's annual living expenses are 1 million, and if she is 18 years old, it will be 13 million here, and then leave an education fund for the child and compensate her, which adds up to almost 50 million in total......
"The house can be transferred directly, and the living expenses are paid annually, only her compensation and education fund must be taken out now, so lend me 10 million? I'll pay you back when Fox's share comes down. ”
"I don't want to take the sharing contract to the bank for a pledge loan, it's too cost-effective......"
That's right, for others, analyzing Roland's investment trends and guessing his investment ideas is the most important thing to do, but for truck drivers, borrowing after hearing the news is the most practical thing!
He doesn't invest, he doesn't sell news, in this case, he won't interfere with whatever Roland wants to do.
At most, after Roland agreed to borrow money, he showed the demeanor of an elder, and asked with concern whether these stares mattered.
"It's okay, if they want to star, let them stare at it......"
"I can't keep an eye on it anyway......"
Roland was telling the truth, because Disney's stalking was useless to him.
Without RobinLi, Disney would not be able to make a search engine, and even with RobinLi, if there is no way to monetize, the search engine is doing big, which means losing more.
Disney has money, but that doesn't mean they can afford to lose money endlessly, and Microsoft, which has the ability to do search engines on the market and can also afford losses endlessly, can't do things now.
After all, home consoles and Yahoo are two pieces of fat that can see how to make a profit.
Giving up two pieces of fat to tinker with search engines?
Isn't this a kick in the head by a donkey?
As for the three-line parallel, this is even more of a joke.
Caught up in the antitrust investigation, if they announced at this time that they would bind search engines to portals, what would ......
Microsoft will definitely be torn apart.
Therefore, even if he made a bunch of things and was targeted by Disney, Roland was not in a hurry.
The Internet is not the lifeblood of Disney.
Even if it's gone, it doesn't feel distressed.
Even if they are distressed, they will not be casual demons.
Because they could see the nuclear weapons in Roland's hands......
"The Lord of the Rings" only signed a co-production and distribution agreement with Disney, and the copyright of toys derived from film and television is still in the hands of Roland.
Not only that, as long as Roland Ken spends money, Carl Icahn can collapse Disney's stock price like he did against Time Warner.
And if Disney dares to flip the table, Berkshire Hathaway, who holds Disney stock and board seats, and is a big push for 'RandK', won't sit there and watch.
Capital......
It's always a group......
If you fight alone, you will only be swallowed up.
…………
Since Roland, the party, didn't take Disney's stalking to heart, then everything else will be the same.
The filming of the filming, the play of the play, the eating of the melon, the work of the work.
It wasn't until September 4 that Google, which had been targeted by Disney and Microsoft, was finally established.
With the official entry into force of the contract, Roland was even more relaxed, and the excitement that enveloped his whole body made him smile at the world.
And this behavior of discharging everyone has also made him receive countless slaps.
Whenever he smiled and communicated with those actresses, Kate, who was stationed in the group, would pump him.
Roland, who was in a good mood, would look back, and—
The noise of giggling and laughing set up a different landscape for the crew.
While Kate never lost and Roland never won, it doesn't matter.
As long as you can kill dogs, that's it.
In this pleasant and relaxed atmosphere, "Spider-Man 2 and 3", which is already a commercial film, did not encounter any bottlenecks, and on September 18, when "Rush Hour" was released, Roland, who had a good relationship with everyone, invited the whole group to watch the movie in a private room.
Especially Cheng Long's serious funny, which makes the theater full of laughter.
Even though Hurricane George, with winds of more than 160 miles per hour, hit America on September 15, causing 4,000 deaths and at least 10 billion losses to America in just half a month, the box office of "Rush Hour" is still high, with 33 million in the first weekend scaring to death, and the global box office is expected to exceed 200 million valuation, which makes Hollywood once again see the influence of ChineseKungfu.
At this time, Roland's old friend, with a ChineseKungfu book, came to the door......