According to the latest research data from Net-Marker-Share, a market care agency, in December 2016, Afarid browser accounted for 59.81% of the global desktop browser market, close to 60%, and will dominate desktop browsers. ”

Pichai's voice resounded in the conference room, and everyone looked at the statistics on the PPT on the main screen of the meeting, and the market share of 59.81% made everyone envious and afraid.

This means that 5,981 users per 10,000 users are using Afarid Browser globally, more than half of the number, and it is still soaring at double-digit rates.

In addition to the Afarid browser, the second place is Google Chrome, which currently has a market share of 13.9%, which is a project developed by Pichai and only started the official public beta in September 2008, almost two years late to the Afarid browser.

In third place is Microsoft's Edge browser with a 7.86% market share, and in fourth place is Firefox with a 7.23% market share.

In addition to these four browsers, the rest of the market share is less than 5%, included in the "other" category, Bluestar Technology Group's Afarid browser accounts for 59.81% of the market share, which shows that the trend of becoming the new king in the field of desktop browsers is becoming more and more clear.

However, before reaching 70% market share, it can not be regarded as a peace of mind, the Chrome browser that ranks behind still has a chance, in the field of desktop browsers, it is still full of gunsmoke, the aftermath continues, and the Afarid browser, which has been leading, is not absolutely sure that it will be able to stand out from the encirclement and achieve the feat of the new king ascending the throne.

Pichai glanced at the PPT content and then looked at the silent managers, and said: "Yes, as you can see these data, in the field of desktop browsers, it is currently in a situation of four-way hegemony, but unfortunately, the bright role is not our Chrome, but Afarid." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the next content of the PPT and continued: "Let's go back in time to 1998, before the Afarid browser achieved today's leading position, it was also a member of many 'dragon slayer warriors', and this dragon was Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which was once prominent and dominated the Internet world. ”

How brilliant was Internet Explorer? Of course, the bigwigs present know that in the 90s of the last century, a fierce browser war broke out, shaking the entire Internet world.

Microsoft used various disgraceful means to gain supremacy, one of which was the tying of the Windows system, which led to a monopoly lawsuit for Microsoft, and finally caused Gates to step down from the position of leader.

Microsoft, which has lost Gates, has missed two historical opportunities in a row with the tide of cloud computing and mobile Internet, which is also the root cause of the decline of IE.

Although today's Microsoft is also a giant multinational technology giant, if it seizes these two opportunities, today's Microsoft must also be a trillion-dollar Internet technology giant, rather than letting Bluestar Technology Group dominate the Internet technology industry.

Pichai continued: "From the end of 1998 to beat Netscape, IE began to dominate the entire browser market, according to the data, by April 2002, IE's market share was as high as 96.6%, which was the peak of IE. ”

Speaking of this, Pichai looked away from the conference screen and said: "Later, under the impact of IE's own problems and competitors such as Firefox, the market share declined significantly, and Firefox began to erode IE's market share in the next four years, once exceeding 15% to 20%, at that time everyone thought that Firefox was the dragon slayer, but IE's market share was still nearly 80%, although it continued to decline, but it was still the dominant player." ”

"It wasn't until 2006, two years later, that you knew what I was going to say, when Bluestar Technology was the brightest rising star of the entire Internet, and was hailed by the outside world as the global Internet community alongside Google. At a time when everyone was focused on the IPO of Bluestar Technology and the Azure mobile phone that redefined the smartphone, the Afarid browser was launched in a low-key manner, and no one would have thought that it was the real enemy of IE. ”

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of the board of directors at the meeting, was basically silent, because the past was unbearable, and he knew that he had a great responsibility in it.

In the same year that Afarid was launched, the development of the browser was opposed by Schmidt within Google at that time, and the two founders of Page proposed the development of the browser at that time.

But it was Schmidt who was at the helm of the CEO, and the reason for the opposition was that Google wanted to focus on competing with Bluestar Technology in the field of streaming video, when the BV video website was launched and quickly became popular, and all kinds of princes joined it, and Google was no exception.

The two founders relied on this big guy very much, and it is no exaggeration to say that without Schmidt, there would be no Google today, and there was no suitable project leader at that time, and there was indeed limited energy, so it was temporarily shelved.

It wasn't until 2008 that Page brought this matter back to the conference table, when Azure mobile phones had swept the world, the mobile Internet wave was crashing, and Afarid's market share had reached 10.98%, with a remarkable growth rate.

Coming back on the agenda, Schmidt eventually followed the advice of the two founders, and the project leader in charge of the development of the Chrome browser was now Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Eric Schmidt, who was present at the meeting, sighed lightly and said: "It's my fault, I have a lot of responsibility, if I agreed at the time, the Chrome project would have developed in tandem with Afarid, and it was two years late to start the project, and Afarid has started the pace of comprehensive expansion with the help of the trend of mobile Internet, and I made Chrome miss the window of opportunity." ”

Page looked at the executive chairman who was quite self-reproachful, and comforted: "At that time, Google's focus was on competing with Bluestar Technology on streaming video, although the final result was that BV video won, but it was not your fault Eric, and no one could accurately step on the pulse of the times every time." ”

Schmidt immediately said: "But Luo Sheng did it." ”

Peiqi, who originally wanted to comfort people, couldn't help but sigh lightly when he heard this, and said with a wry smile: "Yes, Luo Sheng did it...... Competing against such a formidable opponent can be stressful. ”

Sergey Brin immediately turned the topic, looked at Pichai, and said, "Let's talk about the browser problem, Afarid browser, what do you think of this product?" ”

Hearing this, Sundar Pichai was silent for a moment, and then replied: "Objectively speaking, from the current point of view, Afarid can almost be said to have redefined the browser, and many of the user-friendly functional designs of the current web browser almost come from Afarid, which has attracted peers to learn from and imitate, and Chrome is no exception." ”

"For example, the tab bar is at the top, the search bar and the address bar are combined into one, the interface design is highly simplified, the extension store for developers, and bookmarks can be synced in the cloud through social or search engine accounts...... The advent of this series of features has dramatically improved people's web browsing experience. ”

"Afarid can rise, not only to grasp the window of opportunity of the times, even if there is no real strength to grasp the opportunity will slip out of the hands, its own excellent innovation ability I think is more important, while maintaining rapid iterative development, Afarid has also designed a more effective development model, it divides Afarid into stable version and development board, the former is used to meet the needs of ordinary users, the latter is convenient for developers to update and test functions, so as to meet the needs of different types of users."

Larry Page, who attended the meeting, joked: "Fortunately, Google was born early and completed the construction of the ecosystem ahead of schedule, otherwise the global search engine market would be controlled by Luo Sheng......"

The other participants also smiled lowly, but with a bit of mixed feelings.

Bluestar Technology Group's strong development and innovation capabilities are recognized by the global scientific and technological community, which is enviable, making his opponents feel pressured even to breathe, and the bigwigs attending the meeting did not deny Page's joke.

Since Google withdrew from the Greater China market, they have regretted it in the past few years, and they want to return to the Greater China market and have made a lot of preparations.

But today, Google has abandoned the Chinese search engine market internally, and it doesn't even have the idea.

Because Yunge Search, a subsidiary of Bluestar Technology Group, is already the absolute hegemon of Chinese search engines, the ecosystem has been built, and the technology has risen to be superior to Google search, and as for whiteness, it has now been reduced to the "other" category, and the market value has fallen to $3 billion.

Today, Google has regarded Bluestar Technology as the number one enemy to guard against, and its every move will make Google and its parent company's senior management extremely sensitive, as evidenced by this meeting.

Don't look at Yunge search now looks like it has no desire for the global search engine market, but Google's anti-Yunge is like an anti-thief, it can really be said that 360 stares at any action of Yunge search without dead ends, including the actions of Bluestar Technology, but any changes in going to sea will be transmitted to the ears of the senior management of Google and its parent company as soon as possible.

Judging from the current industry pattern, the only one that can be qualified to challenge Alphabet Group in the global search engine market is Bluestar Technology Group.

The search engine market is the basic disk of Alphabet and the core territory of the hinterland of the kingdom.

Sundar Pichai continued: "From the perspective of the underlying technology, Afarid, as a commercial browser, is itself based on the so-called Afaridium open source browser kernel, including Microsoft's Edge browser, but also QQ browser, Sogou browser, and 360 browser in China are based on this kernel. ”

Speaking of this, Pichai took a deep breath and added: "If you look at it from this perspective, the combined market share of desktop browsers based on this kernel has exceeded 70% worldwide, and what is more important is that the kernel itself is also developed by Bluestar Technology and open sourced to the world, I think you know what this means." ”

Of course, all the bigwigs in the meeting understand what this means.

Page muttered to himself: "It means that the underlying technology and standards of the entire human desktop browser have actually been dominated by a commercial company from China, and this company is our number one competitor - Bluestar Technology Group." ”

Pichai continued: "Not only that, because of the close relationship between desktop browsers and web pages, in fact, I am afraid that the future technical development direction of the entire web page will have to be subject to the choice of technology and standards of Bluestar Technology, in a sense, Bluestar Technology will dominate the future of the Web." This is a huge honor for Bluestar Technology, and it is also an important support for its strong technical strength and influence, but for us and other Internet companies, it is definitely not a good thing to see Luo Sheng's face, and no one wants to see such a situation happen. ”

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(Ps:Inside is Bluestar Technology,It can be said that it is the projection of Google's Chrome browser in reality,Dry up IE,The current market share has been 70%,Meet the monopoly in the absolute sense,The former dragon slayer warrior,Now it has also turned into a dragon,Is it an auspicious dragon or an evil dragon basically depends on Google's conscience,Whether you adhere to the mission of not doing evil,At present, most of them are an evil dragon。 ）