Three days have passed, and the popularity of Baidu's interview has been completely covered without a trace.

That night, NIO took the lead in releasing the results:

A total of 1123556 IPs participated in the first selection of the favorite websites of Chinese IT netizens.

The first place, Weibo (Weilai), the number of choices is 852263, 75.85%.

The second place, Tengxun.com, the number of choices was 721663, 64.23%.

The third place, Yahoo, the number of choices is 582199, 51.81%.

4th place, Yahoo! Chinese...

Fifth place, Sina.com...

Sixth place, NetEase...

7th place, TOM.com...

Eighth place, Sina Weibo...

Ninth place, Taobao...

10th place, Google...

A total of 3772536 netizens participated in the election, and the list of winners:

First Prize: Liu Zhenggen (Xiang), ID card: 4303041977xxx3......

……

In addition, a special award will be set up to reward high-life netizens, and 5,000 yuan in cash will be awarded.

Special Award: Wu Daoju (Gan), ID card: 3601111898xxx0......

How to receive the award: Mail a copy of your ID card to Shanghai, indicating the delivery address, and NIO Logistics will deliver it to your door.

Now the sponsor is completely public.

Mr. Qian also posted on Weibo: The sponsor was not announced in advance, because he was afraid of affecting the selection, and thanked all netizens for their encouragement to Weilai Weibo.

All sorts of news on the Internet are also coming.

3.7 million netizens participated! This is a real-name vote!

Sina.com first released an expert comment: The selection was organized by the Shanghai Propaganda Committee, and the fairness is beyond doubt. On the other hand, Weibo, a form of website, has enabled a large number of netizens to participate in the construction of the website, and has been satisfied in this interactivity and autonomy, which is more popular than blogs, a new form of website that unilaterally outputs content, as evidenced by this selection.

Teng Xun reprinted the results of the selection and said: QQ did not participate in the election as a software, which is a pity, and will work harder in terms of website construction.

However, everyone knows that without QQ, Tengxun has a bird's recognition.

NetEase said: Our main business has been transferred to the game sector.

TOM News: SP mobile phone content is also an important form of expression of the Internet.

Taobao really wants to say it, but there is nowhere to say it.

Baidu Table... Expressing a hair, Baidu removed all search content about this selection.

No one mentioned Baidu, and Baidu was the most injured.

The company mobilized more than 3,700 people, and more than 1,000 IPs participated, but it was not on the list.

But a colleague was delighted and said that he had won a Nokia 7250 mobile phone.

Netizens have gone crazy, especially Weibo.

A Weibo Internet celebrity seized the hot spot and posted a screenshot of Baidu's interview, with the title: Friends, do you think Baidu surpasses Weilai Weibo, is there any hope?

The popularity peaked that day, leaving a lot of hot comments:

"Mr. Qian: I am a bed, the Internet is my clothes, what is the reason why someone Li ran into my Qian's crotch to make trouble?"

"Haha, friend, you pickled Li to the taste."

"Baidu is still an unknown distance from surpassing NIO, because it is not on the list this time, and we don't know how far it is."

"Northerners eat noodles - there is no garlic left!"

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The next day, dozens of reporters interviewed Qian Cai in the newspaper, and of course, the content of the editing varied.

"Mr. Qian, what is the intention of sponsoring this Internet selection activity this time?"

"Now the development of the Internet is changing with each passing day, I found that many people have a bit of a deviation in their understanding of the Internet, the future of the Internet is not only for young people, but for the whole society, I hope that through this event, more people can understand the Internet, participate in the Internet, and develop the Internet together."

"Isn't this event a response to Baidu's interview with Mr. Li?"

"I have some personal emotions that I have no intention of occupying public resources, nor will I bring them to the media, but as for the issue of market share, I think it is my duty to unite all Internet companies to make the whole cake bigger, and I don't care about the disputes in some departments of NIO Group.

This selection is also an evaluation of the next development of NIO Network Company, and whether we have reached the level of development in the next stage. ”

"What's next? Can you elaborate? ”

"Of course, it is to go to sea, to foreign countries, our Weibo, to Chinese netizens to bring joy and content, the next step, our Weibo network will gradually land in all regions of the world, to provide content services for people all over the world.

Overseas Weibo we have been planning for a long time, and the domestic version is very different, the bandwidth in the United States and Europe is larger than the domestic one, the network speed is smoother, we will also provide some new features, these functions, we will also gradually launch in China in the future. ”

"Is there anything more you can reveal about Weibo?"

"The content cannot be disclosed, but in terms of independence, we will respect the information security needs of the local country, separate the overseas version of Weibo, no longer have absolute control, or may give up the controlling interest, only retain the right to operate, and will invite international capital to invest in the future."

"Aren't there many microblogs in the world?"

"The overseas version is Microblog, funded by NIO Network Company, the head office is located in the Cayman Islands, and the business subsidiary is located in California, USA.

Foreign microblogs will use Microblog as the domain name, and the relevant procedures have been completed, and will be launched in some foreign regions with more developed Internet on June 15. ”

……

Mr. Qian's interview completely crushed Li in terms of pattern, and netizens began to praise and applaud with small melon seeds.

Of course, this is not the point, the money always cost such a big price, of course, it was not to spit on Lao Li's face, 10 million prizes, of course, it only cost more than 6 million, but I also worked hard to find the Shanghai Propaganda Department.

As soon as the news came out, Sina Chairman and CEO Cao Guowei immediately announced that Sina Weibo will also open up overseas business, and at the same time will spend a huge amount of money to find an international superstar to endorse Sina Weibo.

But this time, even Sina Weibo netizens couldn't stand it.

The domestic Weibo has not yet been understood, what is the international version?

Everyone has made it clear, the international version is going to have new features, and the versions are different, what about Sina Weibo? Still copying?

In fact, netizens are also very curious about how different this difference is.

……

Some capital is still holding a wait-and-see attitude, but more importantly, investors who have seen that Weibo, a form of social platform, will definitely explode.

A group of VCs such as DFJ, IDG, Goldman Sachs China, and Fidelity Asia took the lead in entering Hang Lung Plaza and knocked on the door of NIO Group's headquarters.

But they were all disappointed.

NIO said that it is grateful to all investment companies for their optimism, and after the overseas business is launched, it will invite 17 international PE capital headquarters to discuss the financing of Weibo and Microblog.

Chinese-style discourse.

The words are very simple, don't come to the branch in China, don't come with a low-cost financing mentality, this is not a VC, it will definitely be listed, you believe it, you don't believe it, just watch my performance, we can't look down on small investment, the performance is not good, we don't charge money.

The Chinese branch of many capital companies that have been closed in NIO began to question and reported to the head office that NIO Group is too treacherous, and the mature business must be controlled by itself, and the immature and potential part will be listed for sale, and it will not accept to sell at a low price.

But this kind of arrogance has also attracted the attention of many international capital, foreigners don't care about face, since there is a high threshold, as long as there is a matching return, you can seriously consider it.

Some international capital inspection teams have gradually gone to the Chinese market, and those who have not invested in Chinese Internet companies have begun to understand the performance of China's Internet.

In fact, some of the investment capital seen in this period is just a division of these companies in Asia, most of which are mainly pre-investment, entering the PE stage, the investment is too high, the risk is too large, generally a small amount of participation, and quickly get dividends after listing.

At present, there are several companies in China that have opened up foreign Internet businesses, such as Alibaba, Sina, and Sohu, all of which have overseas stations, but none of them have succeeded, let alone started from scratch independently.

Therefore, in these years, there is no way to talk about setting restrictions on Chinese Internet companies, especially in the eyes of Lao Mei, those companies have come, and even survival is a problem.

……

June 12th.

The microblogging website was soon opened in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, which are English-speaking countries, but the web interface is just a simple mural, exactly the same as in China, with a blue background, two villains, a cat, and a dog.

There is one more number below, 8 days.

This full stop is the only Chinese element.

The propaganda routine is the same, and employees have already entered the local company to throw money around, hire trolls online, post information on various forums, and post some screenshots of Weibo in China.

Judging from the web browsing data in the background, the results are okay, with the UK as the most, it can be seen that netizens in the UK have great expectations for online social networking.

…

Lao Mei is not a fool either.

On June 15th, an American company called "Hi-blog" has been gathering momentum for a long time, before Weilai, landed in the online social market, the web interface can be said to be a copy of Weilai Weibo, but some web page optimization is not as streamlined as Weibo, and some functions are not perfect.

But if Weilai announces it a month late, it will be a complete copy of Weibo.

As soon as it was launched, there was traffic immediately, and the publicity of Weibo in the past few days has almost become a foreshadowing for others, and it has also taught people how to play, and many netizens in the United States said in "Hi-blog" that "I chose to register only after seeing the propaganda of Microblog".

All kinds of ridicule, a posture that doesn't make Microblog angry.

But Microblog continues to advertise.

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June 15th.

Some netizens on the Hi-blog website in the United States began to break the news that he had just returned from China, and many of the functions of Weibo in China he used, such as topics, @好友功能, and the little game that was so angry, did not have it, and expressed great disappointment.

Soon, the post was deleted by the background.

But it soon caused a fierce counterattack from this netizen, and many followers sent a large number of these complaints, and many new messages began to appear, saying that the founder of China's Weibo said that Microblog's overseas stations will be very different from China, and many new features will be added, while Hi-blog is not even complete with old functions.

Lao Mei netizens are not used to it.

What? Do we have a lot of fun, or do we pick up other people's leaks?

When have we ever been humiliated like this?

I can't stand it anymore！

Copycat！

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The next day, the Hi-blog website issued a statement that @好友功能已经上线, the follow-up functions will be restored as soon as possible.

The word is "restore", restore.

It can be said that the face is gone.

The protests continue and intensify.

Lao Mei just loves to protest.

If it were in Russia, the site would probably have been hacked, and the words "garbage" might be spray-painted on the homepage.

I have to say that Lao Mei's awareness of intellectual property protection is still relatively strong, and many netizens said that they are looking forward to the launch of genuine Microblog.

On the same night, the backstage staff of the Microblog website in the United States changed a few words, "stay tuned" and "comming soon", which didn't feel right, and finally simply hung a "stay tuned" on the homepage.

4 days。

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In the last four days, Hi-blog has probably become a new generation of Internet welfare factory in the United States, and it has begun to work overtime, and the countdown of Microblog seems to have become their lifeline, and new features are constantly improving.

Finally, on the last day, Peter Lowry, the founder of Hi-blog, posted a new post on his personal Weibo.

“We did it！”

Attached to the back is a statement stating that it has applied for a web patent registration at the US Patent Office, and if the similarity of other websites reaches more than 80%, it is infringing, and Hi-blog will sue to protect its legal rights.

It's shameless.

The complaints of netizens are also steely.

But judging from a series of behaviors of the founder, he does not care about these "gossip" and "slander and speculation".

And he was confident that the United States would protect its homegrown company.

Microblog did not make any response, and many netizens were tired of scolding, it seems that when Microblog is about to be launched, the scolding war is meaningless, and the infringement heat of Hi-blog is gradually silent on the Internet.

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On June 20th, at 10 a.m., the Microblog web page finally changed.

It turned into a one-hour countdown.

China's New Year-style anticipation has finally swept into the American netizen circle.

All kinds of trolls began to be loud in all places where they could leave messages, and the slogan was unified.

Microblog is reading.

(End of chapter)