Chapter 285 Chen Yansen, who stabbed him in the back, was invited by Zhou Hongyi to form a team!
On August 3, 360 Search was launched.
Zhou Hongyi made a move on Weibo, waiting for Li Yanhong's response to increase the popularity.
But Li Yanhong ignored him and directly ignored Zhou Hongyi.
Chen Yansen sat in the office, browsing Lao Zhou's comment section, half of which were filled with black fans.
"Mr. Zhou, how about you teach me how to uninstall 360 Wallpaper and I'll help you scold Baidu?"
“When will 360 release its flagship phone?”
"Don't bother, do you think Mr. Li will pay attention to you?"
Chen Yansen smiled faintly. The netizens in 2012 spoke sharply, and every word hit Zhou Hongyi's heart.
There's no way. When a former gangster says he wants to become a good person, usually no one will believe him.
Baidu relies on its monopoly position in the market to engage in paid ranking advertising, which pollutes the search quality. Users have no choice but to use it.
One netizen’s reply was the most classic and received the most likes: “Every day you shout about user experience, saying that users are your father and your mother, but when it comes to the critical moment, you turn your back on your relatives and treat them as if they were not your parents.”
This sentence is an insult to both Li Yanhong and Zhou Hongyi.
Qiandu Search is not a good thing, but 360 Search is innocent?
We are all gangsters, why are we pretending to be good people?
At this moment, the cell phone on the table rang.
Chen Yansen glanced at the caller ID and pressed the answer button and the speakerphone.
"Boss, should Lingxi Search be launched in advance to follow Zhou Hongyi to get some traffic?" Zhang Yiming asked straight to the point.
From May to July, Kuaidi Dache consumed 400 to 500 million yuan in funds due to the subsidy war.
If Qiandu hadn't jumped out to disrupt the situation, with Today Capital's investment style, it would never have participated in Didi Dache's Series B financing.
At that time, Cheng Wei will either shut down the product or sell it to Kuaidi.
Li Yanhong's actions greatly hindered the expansion of Kuaidi Dache, so Chen Yansen naturally wanted to make the other party unhappy.
The day after Qiandu announced its investment in Didi Dache, Chen Yansen immediately asked Zhang Yiming to start the research and development project of Lingxi Search.
"Getting traffic? No need! Lingxi Search is not a vassal of 360. We don't take sides and just stay independent. If Lingxi's search quality and algorithm have no bugs, it's fine to launch it earlier."
Chen Yansen replied.
Lingxi Search is built into the Lingxi browser, has its own traffic, and is highly defensive. Baidu cannot break in. For every additional mobile search user, Baidu will lose a user.
The same is true for the PC side. Lingxi Search is not afraid of wearing shoes even if it is barefoot, and its market share is zero.
Even if he could only snatch 5% of the market share from Qiandu, it would be a victory for Chen Yansen.
“The functional test is OK and sufficient to meet the daily needs of users, but the resources in encyclopedia and Q&A are flawed. If we crawl the content of Baidu, it will violate the Robots crawler agreement and easily lead to lawsuits.”
Zhang Yiming thought for a while and answered seriously.
"It doesn't matter. I've looked at examples of infringement in the past decade, and the one that paid the most only paid 480,000 yuan," Chen Yansen said in a flat tone.
This sentence made Zhang Yiming silent. He grinned bitterly. He never expected that Chen Yansen's operation ideas in order to improve user stickiness were even more wild than his.
"Is there any problem?" Chen Yansen raised his voice and asked when he saw that he didn't speak.
"No problem." Zhang Yiming gritted his teeth and agreed reluctantly.
Aren’t they just the inspection office and the court?
It’s not like I haven’t been there before!
Under the instruction of Chen Yansen, Zhang Yiming began to crawl information from Baidu Zhidao, Baidu Encyclopedia, and Tieba without any scruples, and convert them into Lingxi search results.
In fact, 360 Search does the same thing!
The worst that can happen is a lawsuit, which can drag on for a year or two. Compared with the market share of search engines, a fine of hundreds of thousands is nothing.
Chen Yansen didn't care at all. After all, the legal representative of Byte Technology was Zhang Yiming. If the big guys above couldn't stand it, Zhang Yiming would be the one to suffer.
On the first day of 360 Search's launch, it took advantage of the traffic of 360 Browser and Navigation Station to quickly seize the search market share, soaring from 0 to 1.09%.
More than half of Google search's Chinese traffic comes from 360 Navigation. After Zhou Hongyi changed the default search engine to 360 Search, Google was the first to be affected and immediately lost 16.7% of the Chinese market share.
At this time, Liu Yun, the head of Google's Dahua region, was confused and couldn't help cursing: "Isn't 360 going to attack Qiandu? Why is the gun pointed at Google?"
On the first day of the battle between 360 and Qiandu Search, Qiandu was unscathed while Google was left with a bruise.
The next day, 360 Search's market share increased to 2.63%.
On the third day, 360 Search's market share increased to 3.91%.
Li Yanhong couldn't sit still anymore. He felt that Zhou Hongyi's attack was a bit fierce, but 360 wanted to do search, could he stop it?
On August 6, Lingxi Search was quietly launched without any announcement. With the help of Lingxi Browser's more than 30 million users, it quickly grabbed a piece of its own.
On August 7, 360 Search's market share increased to 5.84%.
At the same time, Qiandu also discovered 360's outrageous operations. 360 Encyclopedia not only plagiarized Qiandu Encyclopedia entries, but also blatantly bypassed the Robots protocol and used Qiandu's information data as its own.
Qiandu immediately responded on its official Weibo account for the first time: "We welcome competition from peers, but we oppose unscrupulous infringements."
And @周弘毅, demanding 360 to immediately stop the illegal crawling behavior.
After seeing it, Zhou Hongyi smiled and pretended not to see anything. He continued to do as he pleased and even blocked the Hao123 navigation website owned by Qiandu.
As long as the user has 360 Security Guard installed, when clicking on the Hao123 navigation website, an interception prompt will appear: This website may steal your personal or financial information.
The means are shameless and the effect is outstanding.
The number of visits to Hao123 on that day dropped by 14.2% due to 360's intervention.
You should know that in 2012, the installation volume of 360 Security Guard reached 470 million, and almost 80% of netizens have this thing on their computers.
Of course, this also includes some netizens who want to uninstall but cannot.
Faced with Zhou Hongyi's rogue tactics, Li Yanhong could no longer bear it and immediately launched a counterattack, immediately blocking 360 Search's access to Qiandu Zhidao, Baike, and Tieba. 360 users would be forced to jump to the Qiandu homepage when clicking on search results.
Zhou Hongyi also responded quickly and replaced all the Qiandu News, Maps, MP3 and other products on 360 Navigation with Toutiao, Amap and Sogou Music.
The two of them completely fell out!
Soon after, Zhou Hongyi posted a post on Weibo, saying: "Qiandu Antivirus is rogue software that users cannot uninstall. The 360 Security Team will soon make a plug-in for users to uninstall Qiandu Antivirus."
When Chen Yansen saw Lao Zhou's speech, he couldn't help but blush for him.
Netizens couldn't hold back! Everyone knows how Zhou Hongyi made his fortune.
The old gangster angrily scolded the big gangster! On the other side.
Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan, who is also in Yanjing, stared at last week's business report with a frown on his face.
Although Sogou Search mainly obtains traffic through its own browser and paid channels, and the user overlap with 360 and Qiandu is not high, there are still duplicate users.
Sogou's market share dropped from 7.44% to 7.21%. Although the drop was not large, it made Wang Xiaochuan very unhappy.
He couldn't stand Qiandu's monopolistic behavior, and he also looked down on 360's rogue behavior.
Wang Xiaochuan was reading the war of words between Zhou Hongyi and Qiandu on Weibo, and said with a sneer: Old Zhou is still using the same old tricks, public opinion comes first before the product is released.
No matter whether you win or lose, just curse to your heart’s content first.
It is obvious that Zhou Hongyi reaped the traffic dividend from the success of 360 mobile phone, and used the same strategy to attack Lei Yijun and Li Yanhong in turn.
“@Sogou Wang Xiaochuan, Mr. Wang, please say something! If Sogou doesn’t participate in the war anymore, its market ranking will drop from second to third!”
"@SohuZhang ChaoyangMr. Zhang, stop singing and go to the battle!"
Wang Xiaochuan smiled and shook his head. After thinking for a while, he replied: "360 is 3, Sogou is S, and Baidu is B. I think it's better for Sogou not to join the war, so as to avoid becoming 3SB!"
Wang Xiaochuan's sarcastic remarks were quoted by many netizens, and the 3B search engine war became more and more famous.
Lingxi Search hid behind and quietly snatched market share from Qiandu Search.
It was not until August 9, when Lingxi Search's market share reached 1%, that it came into the sight of Qiandu, 360 and Sogou.
After some investigation, Li Yanhong found out that it was Chen Yansen who was behind the incident. After a little thought, he understood the other party's intention.
Not counting Amap, the two have already had a feud just over the battle over online ride-hailing services.
Chen Yansen quietly launched the search business, apparently intending to use the marginal business to attack Qiandu's core business.
Zhou Hongyi was the most impatient. After learning that Lingxi Search was Chen Yansen’s product, he called him immediately.
"Mr. Chen, no wonder we get along so well, it turns out we are from the same field." Zhou Hongyi said with a smile.
Lingxi Search and 360 Search operate in exactly the same way. They do not take Baidu's Robots crawler seriously at all and just keep pulling it out.
"Mr. Zhou, you misunderstood. It's mainly because there are too many ads on Baidu Search that I made a clean and ad-free search product."
Chen Yansen made up a story, answering half-truthfully.
"Let's work together on Qiandu?" Zhou Hongyi initiated an invitation to form a team.
Chen Yansen smiled knowingly and chatted with Zhou Hongyi for ten minutes before hanging up the phone.
The business ecosystem of Lingxi Search and Sohu Search is similar, mainly based on mobile browser usage scenarios. They are highly defensive and do not have much overlap with 360 and Qiandu.
Therefore, Chen Yansen declined the invitation, but provided Zhou Hongyi with a technical solution to solve the problem of Baidu search blocking. Chen Yansen would certainly not let it go if it could cause trouble for Li Yanhong.
Let Zhou Hongyi charge forward, and Lingxi stay behind and develop quietly.
Two days later, when 360 users use 360 search in 360 browser to view search results related to Qiandu products, they will be redirected to the 'Web Snapshot' page.
The information content still belongs to Qiandu, but 360 Search Engine blocks the users in the middle and does not give any traffic to Qiandu.
On August 12, Qiandu sent a lawyer's letter to 360.
(End of this chapter)
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