Rebirth of the Wild Age

"Come on, come on, meet ninety-eight. Meet in the silver moonlight, meet in warm affection"

Sitting in front of the computer in his room, Song Weiyang could hear the singing from a house next door.

As DVDs are constantly grabbing the market and the competition from VCD manufacturers has intensified, the prices of VCDs have become cheaper and cheaper. No, some workers in the Xianjiu Group can afford it. If you build two more pillar-like speakers, you can hear the whole song when you play at home.

It is estimated that someone was upset by the quarrel, and simply attacked poison with poison, made louder voices, and used a subwoofer: "I always want to confess to you, how heroic my mood is ≤ I want to tell you how much I love life"

The battle for hegemony between the two heroes quickly became a three-nation triumph: "Hey~ happy gongs and drums, beat each year's celebrations, beautiful dances, and send joy every day."

Song Weiyang could only get up and close the glass windows, and if he listened like this, he was almost into a nervous breakdown.

I have to say that China's piracy industry is very developed, and its efficiency is extremely high. This has not passed the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the popular songs of this year's Spring Festival Gala were actually made into VCD records, and they were even sold in small cities like Rongping-the original records have not yet been released!

Song Weiyang really wanted to do a market survey at this time, to study the production and sales channels of pirated vcd records, maybe he could still use it as a graduation thesis.

On the Spring Festival Gala of Lunar New Year's Eve, pirates must record the song that night, and then convert it into vcd format overnight. Then it was mass-produced at the factory, and then shipped to all directions, distributed by dealers layer by layer, and finally appeared on the streets of large, medium and small cities.

These steps, the pirates actually completed within three or four days, it can be called a major business miracle in the world!

The phone rang suddenly and Ding Ming called.

"The first year of the lunar new year, and the fourth lunar new year?" Song Weiyang laughed.

Ding Ming said: "Lao Song, I received an email yesterday from the US. Someone is promoting a search engine whose core operation method is pagerank. I have a virtual communication with the company’s search engine research and development. Look at it. The description is exactly what we need. So, after the eighth day, I will take a team to the United States to investigate."

"Are you sure it's pagerank?" Song Weiyang was a little dazed. That's Google's core technology. Google relied on that to make it bigger.

Ding Ming said: "It is indeed called pagerank∫ that once posted a post on a technical forum in the United States, saying that he wanted to recruit American search engine experts, and he also left the company mailbox. It is estimated that someone will sell technology after seeing the post."

Song Weiyang asked: "Have you contacted the other party?"

Ding Ming said: "I sent the email, but the other party hasn't responded yet."

Song Weiyang said: "Continue to keep in touch, get your visa ready, and prepare to go to the United States."

"Okay, I'll call you when I have news." Ding Ming said.

Song Weiyang thought: Is this the butterfly effect? If the founder of Google sells the core technology, can Google still be bigger? In other words, will Google still be established?

In fact, it's really not a butterfly effect.

The two founders of Google developed the search engine at the end of 1997, but the name is not Google, it is called backrub, the predecessor of Google).

Larry Page and Sergey Brin are real cows. Ding Ming’s research and development is frustrating. Seven or eight people have been working on it for more than half a year. Finally, the "smart search engine" has been brought out, but it is not very easy to use. However, there are only two people who use their free time to build a backrub search engine in less than three months. At the same time, they also developed a non-full version of the pagerank algorithm.

After making a search engine and developing the pagerank algorithm, the first reaction of the two was not to start a company, but to license the technology. Since no company was willing to cooperate, they decided to sell it directly for only $1.6 million.

No one is willing to buy it!

Then I had to start my own company, and then there would be Google.

In the future, Google’s third employee, Scott Hassan, is a friend of Larry and Sergey at this time. He is helping them sell search engines, and he has also found the CEO of excite, one of the mainstream search engines in the United States) George Bell.

George Bell used his own search engine to search for the keyword "ter" and found a bunch of messy results. Then use the backrub future Google) to search, and find a bunch of very reasonable content, it can be seen that Google is better to use.

But George Bell was very upset and said: "We don't want your search engine, we don't want people to find what they want easily, because we want people to stay on our website."

Yes, the Google search engine is so easy to use, so we definitely don't use it!

It sounds funny and ridiculous, but this is the mainstream business Internet concept in 1997: portals are fundamental, and only when there are visits can there be money to be made, and only then can they raise funds for listing and refinancing. If netizens can easily search for content, what else do they use portals for?

The larger the portal site, the more resistant it is to excellent search engines, because they are afraid that their users will run away.

Even the search engine companies with the best reputation and the top three utilization rates in the United States at this time will fully transform into a portal website in 1998, and will no longer invest in research and development of search engines. The result of this incident was that Li Yanhong resigned and returned to China and founded Baidu.

"Honey, are you out?" Chen Tao called to ask.

"Has been downstairs." Song Weiyang picked up his jacket and went out.

He has to drive to pick up Chen Tao, have dinner together at noon, and go to the movies in the afternoon.

On the way, Ding Ming called again: "The U.S. returned an email~www.wuxiamtl.com~ He said that his name is Scott Hassan, he is a programmer, and the backrub search engine was developed by two of his friends. Yes. They want to license it to Sohu. The annual license fee is US$100,000. If it is exclusively authorized, the contract will be signed once a year for US$500,000 a year."

Song Weiyang said: "Ask them if they can sell, that pagerank algorithm must be won."

"Wait a minute, I asked for his icq, and I am communicating on the Internet." Ding Ming said.

Two minutes later, Ding Ming said again: "The other party said that they could sell the PageRank algorithm for $3 million."

"Buy it!" Song Weiyang said excitedly.

"The company doesn't have that much money." Ding Ming said.

"I pay!" Song Weiyang said.

Ding Ming said: "I will ask again."

After more than ten minutes passed, Chen Tao was already in the car, Ding Ming called: "I asked him about the patent status, the pagerank algorithm is not patented. This person said vaguely, there seems to be a problem, it won't be. Steal someone else’s technology, right?"

Song Weiyang really didn't understand the inside story, but he knew that Google's core technology was definitely not stolen, and he ordered: "You must go to the United States to buy the technology."

"Okay, I will apply for a visa tomorrow." Ding Ming's inner thoughts were to find out the situation first.

If it is not for the foresight of the traverser, the ghost will buy the pagerank algorithm, and there is still no final perfect version. Because this thing partially overlaps with Li Yanhong's patent, it was delayed for three years before it was approved by the U.S. Patent Office.

If Song Weiyang buys the algorithm, it is estimated that Pagerank will never be recognized by the US Patent Office.

But this is enough.

The question is, will Google still be born?

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