The Afarid browser has been favored by Lady Luck because it is backed by Luo Sheng, and Luo Sheng owns Bluestar Technology and owns the Cote d'Azur, while Bluestar Technology owns StarCloud, and the Cote d'Azur has AOS and WOS operating systems. ”

Speaking of which, Pichai motioned for everyone to look at the PPT again.

"The five years from 2009 to the beginning of 2015 were a time when AOS and WOS grew rapidly and dominated the mobile operating system, and it was also a time when Afarid browser took advantage of the growth and soared all the way.

Pichai retracted his gaze and looked at everyone again: "At present, the entire desktop browser field has formed a pattern of 'four-way competition' or 'one super three strong', of course, whether it is our Chrome or Microsoft's IE or Firefox, they are improving, and they are learning from competitors in many aspects, especially learning from Afarid, but Afarid is like the superhero Quicksilver in Marvel......"

After saying that, Pichai shook his head helplessly.

After a moment of silence in the room, Larry Page picked up the pace of the discussion and asked, "Judging from Pichai's report, the market share of Afarid and Chrome browsers has steadily increased on the original basis, while IE and Firefox have continued to decline steadily. ”

Pichai nodded and added: "It's hard to pinpoint how and to what extent the mobile internet wave has changed the desktop browser market over the past five years, and we're working on the topic, but there's no doubt that Afarid is the biggest beneficiary, followed by Chrome. ”

Eric Schmidt hit the nail on the head: "Simply put, Afarid's success is about attracting more users with a unified experience across desktops, tablets, and smartphones. ”

Although Schmidt stepped on the browser field, one of the three major traffic entrances in the Internet field during his tenure at Google, and also lost the competition with Bluestar Technology in the field of streaming online video, the Android project was also crushed by the Cote d'Azur.

But these failures do not negate Schmidt's contribution to Google, a name that helped create Google's glory days, a name that has long been part of Google's technology saga, and when people look back at the brief history of Google, Eric Schmidt is destined to be an inescapable figure.

Sundar Pichai nodded repeatedly, "That's right, that's right. And Microsoft missed the opportunity in the mobile Internet wave, resulting in IE isolated, and two years ago the release of Windows 10 and Edge browser was marginalized, IE has basically been abandoned, left to its own fend, and our Chrome browser because of Android barely has today's situation. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, the battle for desktop browsers has not yet reached the time when the dust settles, Chrome still has the power to fight, but if the Afarid browser is allowed to develop for another two years, the follow-up road will be smooth, and its market share will inevitably reach 70%, and no one will be able to shake its position at that time, and it is unlikely that anyone will challenge its dominance in the field of desktop browsers.

Nowadays, the Afarid browser has accounted for more than half of the country, and Microsoft's IE is already a piece of the past, from the Edge browser based on the open source kernel project of Bluestar Technology, it can be seen that Microsoft has basically given up the competition with Bluestar Technology in the field of desktop browsers, which is equivalent to indirectly recognizing the status of the browser boss of Bluestar Technology.

No one wants to see Afarid dominate the world, let alone see Bluestar Technology Group on the web as the only option for consumers.

Sergey Brin glanced around at everyone, spread out his hand with one hand, and said: "OK, everything that should be sorted out has been sorted out, So, what should I do?" ”

Pichai said simply, "You can't just use normal business competition to allocate a sum of money to K Street. ”

The so-called "K" Street, whose real name is "K-St", means Street, which means street.

K Street is located in the District of Columbia, in the north of Georgetown and east to Capitol Hill, is a lobbying street, gathering a large number of think tanks and analysts, lobbying groups, public relations firms, international headquarters, the World Bank, IMF, etc.

Pichai's proposal, of course, was understood by Page and others, who were present at the meeting, and quickly expressed their stance on it, and everyone agreed without much hesitation, and the proposal to allocate $18 million was passed directly by the board of directors.

……

Three days later.

This morning, Luo Sheng, who was holding a cup of morning tea, was alone in his private office, staring at the 4K high-definition screen on the wall.

The reason is that a tech tycoon from Silicon Valley posted the latest dynamic information on MicroBlog last night, and it quickly spread in the industry, and even many mainstream media in Europe and the United States are citing reports.

The person who posted the news was Larry Page, one of the founders of Google, and if it was just a news, it would at most spread in the tech circle.

But this dynamic was successful, so that the "Understanding King" who had just been launched paid attention to and forwarded it, and also left a message.

That's different.

This is the reason why the mainstream media reported out of the circle and made several core executives of Cote d'Azur and Bluestar Technology hold an impromptu video conference early in the morning.

Luo Sheng looked at the information on the screen and complained with disgust on his face: "Shocked...... I originally thought that this year how to say that I could finish the first quarter safely and without making trouble, but the result was that January didn't end and began to toss, it seems that I am still too optimistic, and I am being targeted by the king of understanding, and some of them are making trouble now. ”

Zhang Bowen said suspiciously: "Understand the king? What is it? ”

The other people at the meeting also had question marks on their faces, so Luo Sheng had to skip the topic casually and return to the topic of today's meeting.

Larry Page posted the original post on his MicroBlog:

[Afarid browser has quietly changed the core part of the way the web works, it is almost infinitely close to the real technology monopoly, it gives Bluestar Technology the ability to influence the way all web browsing works, which is far beyond the scope of most people's consciousness, Afarid is a monopoly business under Bluestar Technology that should be spun off. But either way, we're going to fight for a true open web with Chrome, and we're ready to sacrifice. 】

And the king forwarded and left a message two hours after Larry Page posted this news message:

[No one understands the harm of Bluestar Technology's monopoly on all magnesium better than me, and he has monopolized too many fields, from mobile phones to PCs, video sharing, music, navigation, catering and entertainment guides and ratings, e-book publishing, film and television content on-demand stations, Internet finance, online books, ......]

The king forwarded and commented on a wave of seemingly uncomfortable feelings, so he posted angrily:

[Oh yes, they also have data analysis and consulting services for companies, and he's really all-encompassing. When his net grows bigger and bigger, so big that you depend on it for every move in your life and don't even realize it, it means that it has taken over your life, which is the mess left by the previous one, and no one knows better than me how bad it really is. 】

After a while, Zhang Bowen in the video conference laughed teasingly: "It seems that Google should be really anxious this time, and it did not hesitate to play such a move as the Seven Wounds Punch." ”

A Silicon Valley tech tycoon posted a dynamic message on MicroBlog asked Luo Sheng to hold a meeting to discuss it, because the situation behind this incident was too abnormal.

It's no secret that the relationship between the bigwigs in Silicon Valley and the king is not very good, and almost no one supports the king.

However, Page, as one of the most famous tech giants in Silicon Valley, and the Alphabet company behind it, is one of the top multinational technology giants in Silicon Valley, and now it gives people a sense of singing and harmonizing, which is intriguing.

Zhang Bowen said that it is not unreasonable for Google to make a move and punch seven wounds, and there are two good reasons:

First, if Google is in touch with Wang Mei, it will inevitably make other Silicon Valley bigwigs unhappy and regarded as traitors.

Second, Page took the initiative to propose a monopoly spin-off of the technology giants, if Bluestar Technology North America is spun off because of this, then the technology giants in Silicon Valley will not be able to run, including Amazon, Microsoft, and even Google itself may be spun off, which undoubtedly makes the bigwigs in Silicon Valley hate even more.

But if you stand in the position of Alphabet, it's another matter, in a word: the enemy is going to enter my house to dismantle the crystal, and the labor fund can't manage so much.

……

(End of chapter)