Chapter 286 Cheng Wei: Li Yanhong is such a loser! Why hasn’t the new version been released yet?
Yanjing, No. 6 Jiuxianqiao Road, 360 Headquarters.
"Let him sue! The longer it takes, the better it will be for us!"
Zhou Hongyi said nonchalantly, his eyes slightly narrowed and a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Boss, 360 Search's current market share is 10.34%, far exceeding Sogou Search's 7.09%. Our growth mainly comes from Baidu and Google."
Chen Daofang, head of R&D at 360 Search, responded with a smile.
"How much has Google search dropped?" Zhou Hongyi asked.
"Before August 3rd it was 5.61%, and now it is 3.73%, an overall reduction of 1.88%." Chen Daofang replied immediately.
"In other words, 360 Search has snatched 8.46% of the market share from Qiandu? No wonder Li Yanhong is so anxious."
Zhou Hongyi grinned, with an extremely proud expression on his face.
"Lingxi Search's market share is around 3%, so Qiandu Search's user churn rate is over 11%."
Chen Daofang added quite rigorously.
He originally worked as an algorithm expert at Qiandu and was very familiar with Qiandu's search engine technology. This is the main reason why 360 Search can easily crawl data from Qiandu Zhidao, Baike and Tieba.
Facing his old boss, Chen Dao showed no mercy.
"Why doesn't Baidu send a lawyer's letter to Byte Technology? This is unfair!" Zhou Hongyi frowned and cursed indignantly when he heard this.
"It may be that Lingxi Search's approach is more covert and it did not hijack Baidu's traffic."
Chen Daofang thought for a moment and said.
In order to counter the ban by Baidu, 360 simply hijacked Baidu search results in the 360 browser and only showed users "web page snapshots".
Simply put, users cannot even jump to the original page of Baidu.
As a result, Baidu lost some external traffic sources, and traffic equals advertising revenue, so Li Yanhong naturally became anxious.
"This kid Chen Yansen is really smart!" Zhou Hongyi shook his head and sighed helplessly.
This is equivalent to him and Chen Yansen going to steal watermelons from Li Yanhong's house. After being discovered, Li Yanhong stared at him and beat him to death, while Chen Yansen stood aside and ate the watermelon as if nothing had happened.
How could Zhou Hongyi feel balanced? In fact, Li Yanhong had a similar idea and took ByteDance to court, but Lingxi Search's offensive in the PC search field was not fierce and had not yet reached Qiandu's tolerance limit.
360 Search, on the other hand, is hitting Baidu's weak spots with every move.
To deprive someone of his money is like killing his parents.
Once 360 Search's market share exceeds 20%, Li Yanhong will definitely force users to make a "choice between the two", pushing the 3B war into a decisive battle of "using Baidu or 360".
It's nothing more than a replay of the 3Q war! At 9:30 pm, the US stock market opened.
As Qiandu Search's market share fell from 75.44% to 64.17%, Qiandu's stock price plummeted all the way. At the close of trading at 4 a.m., it recorded its biggest drop in nearly ten months, with a plunge of as much as 7.1%.
360's stock price went straight into the red, surging 17.6% in a single day.
The next morning, when Li Yanhong just arrived at the company and learned the news, he felt his eyes go dark. He rarely cursed at people, but he couldn't help but greet all of Zhou Hongyi's relatives and friends.
After thinking for a while, Li Yanhong took out his mobile phone and called Lei Yijun, Ma Wenteng, Zhang Chaoyang and others respectively, connecting all of Zhou Hongyi's "enemies".
However, Zhang Chaoyang rejected the proposal of joining forces and only replied: "Robin, Sogou remains neutral. Come and have a drink with me when you are free."
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Li Yanhong burst out laughing, but he didn't really think of Zhang Chaoyang as a drunkard. He understood the other party's calculations. Most of them wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between two tigers, and reap the benefits.
Although Sogou was unwilling to participate, companies such as Kingsoft and Penguin agreed very readily.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the Qiandu Security Alliance was established, declaring its intention to crack down on phishing websites.
Users who use products such as Qiandu Antivirus, Penguin Butler, and Kingsoft Security were surprised to find that every time they cleaned up advertising plug-ins and system junk, a series of 360 products would be directly uninstalled.
Including the 360 wallpaper software that is usually hard to uninstall!
Even the browser's default 360 navigation will be marked as a dangerous website, and users will be prompted whether to change the navigation to Hao123.
The users then realized that the target of the Security Alliance was 360.
This is exactly what a netizen said: "You keep talking about user experience and say that users are your father and mother, but when it comes to the critical moment, you play tricks on your parents!"
When scoundrels fight hooligans, neither of them is easy to deal with! Obviously, Qiandu and 360's practice of playing tricks on users for commercial competition has caused dissatisfaction among most people.
At this time, Zhang Yiming, as the CEO of Byte Technology, accepted an interview with "IT Times Weekly". He first clearly expressed his attitude of "not participating in the war", and then did a wave of publicity for Lingxi Search.
In Zhang Yiming's words, Qiandu and 360 are one monopoly and the other rogue, but Lingxi is different. It is a safe, clean and ad-free search engine product.
Zhang Yiming gives people the impression of being a technical CEO who does not compete or fight for things but focuses on products, and he instantly won the favor of a large number of users.
But privately, Lingxi Browser’s advertisements are running wild, and the homepages of 91 Assistant, Wandoujia, App Store, Xiaomi and Orange App Store are all covered with eye-catching posters.
In just two days, the download volume of Lingxi Browser hit a new high. With nearly 10 million new users, Lingxi Search's market share increased by another point.
"Bah! This guy is so shameless!"
After reading Zhang Yiming's report, Zhou Hongyi almost laughed out of anger. 360 is not the only company that ignores the Robots crawler protocol.
The dirty things that Lingxi Search has done behind the scenes are no less than those of 360.
So 360 is a rogue and Byte is a white lotus?
Zhou Hongyi wanted to start scolding immediately, but then he changed his mind and realized that the development of 360 mobile phones still depended on Orange Technology, so he had to swallow his anger.
Seeing this, Li Yanhong hesitated for a long time but still couldn't make up his mind, so he formally attacked Senlian Capital.
To put it bluntly, Qiandu is in competition with Senlian Capital in the electronic map navigation and online car-hailing industries; but in the information distribution and mobile phone APP pre-installation tracks, the two companies are in a cooperative relationship.
If Qiandu and Senlian Capital suppress it together, it will immediately push the other party to the 360 camp.
In addition, Orange Mobile accounts for about 25% of the domestic smartphone market's shipments. If it falls out with Chen Yansen, Qiandu's mobile traffic will be reduced by more than 20%.
This is extremely unfavorable for Baidu's strategy of seizing the entrance to the mobile Internet!
In addition, Chen Yansen has a close relationship with Lei Yijun, Ma Wenteng and others, both in personal relationships and in business cooperation.
If the gun is pointed at Senlian Capital, the Security Alliance may have to be disbanded.
After weighing the pros and cons, Li Yanhong made up his mind: to kill 360 first.
at the same time.
Xucheng, Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park, in the top floor conference room of Building No. 8.
Chen Yansen sat beside the coffee table, boiling water, making tea, and pouring tea, all of which he did smoothly.
"Thank you, Mr. Chen." Zhou Shouzhi took the teacup and nodded in thanks.
"You came at the right time. Mr. Gao is very busy all day long. You can take the position of CFO of Orange Technology first."
Chen Yansen picked up the hot tea, took a sip and said.
Although it was a hot summer day with the temperature outside the window exceeding 30 degrees, the temperature inside the house was only 20 degrees with the central air-conditioning on, and the refreshing cool wind circulated in the room.
"No problem." Zhou Shouzhi agreed readily.
He understood Chen Yansen's subtext, which was to start as CFO first, take the opportunity to master the operation status of each department of Orange Technology, and then take on the position of CEO when the time was right.
"In five days we will have Orange Technology's new product launch. This time it will be different from the past. In addition to Orange C3 and Orange D1S, we will also focus on introducing the Moss voice interaction engine and the core members of the artificial intelligence laboratory. You will be in charge of the overall planning, and Wang Teng will be in charge of the execution."
Chen Yansen put down the teacup and said lightly.
"Okay, boss." Zhou Shouzhi nodded in response.
The huge change from co-founder of DST Capital in Greater China to CFO of Orange Technology made him think for two whole days before he finally made up his mind.
"What do you think about the current development status of Orange Technology?" Chen Yansen asked casually.
Zhou Shouzhi immediately sat up straight and gave a risky answer to his new boss's first question: "Orange Technology's capabilities in product diversification, brand building, and market expansion are clearly insufficient, resulting in its revenue level failing to reach the level of world-class mobile phone manufacturers."
This statement undoubtedly denies the joint efforts of more than 2,000 people at Orange Technology headquarters.
But Zhou Shouzhi knew clearly that Chen Yansen offered him a huge annual salary not for him to win easily, but for him to make achievements, at least to raise Orange Technology's revenue capacity to the entry threshold of the Fortune 500 companies.
Being submissive and indifferent will only make you lose your ambition.
"Tell me in detail." Chen Yansen smiled and said indifferently.
"First, expand product categories. Although Orange Technology's products include mobile phones, mobile power banks, Bluetooth headsets, smart speakers and mobile phone accessories, it has made almost no progress in smart wearable devices. It can add smart watches, bracelets and other products to enrich its product line."
"Second, the brand positioning is unclear. The Orange D1 is priced at 799 yuan, and the Orange C2 is priced at 2,699 yuan. I suggest using different series or creating an independent sub-brand to separate high-end and low-end models."
"Third, we should speed up the layout of overseas markets. The consumption potential of Southeast Asia, India, Europe and the United States should not be underestimated. If we only focus on the East African market, we will easily miss the development opportunities. We should attach importance to the offline market and lay out offline stores and experience stores in advance, which can serve as sales windows and improve the brand's reach and user stickiness."
Zhou Shouzhi finished his speech in one breath, with clear logic and organization, without any pause.
"Make a plan and you will be responsible for its implementation. You can call upon all the resources in the company." Chen Yansen arranged without hesitation.
Everyone understands the general principles, but the real ability is whether you can implement them and achieve results.
Zhou Shouzhi nodded heavily, realizing in his heart that although his position was CFO, he still had to do the work of a CEO.
If you do well, your status will be further improved; if you do poorly, you will be fired immediately.
Both of them are smart people, and there are some things that don't need to be said too clearly.
"Let me take you to visit the artificial intelligence laboratory." Chen Yansen stood up and said.
Zhou Shouzhi quickly put down the teacup and followed Chen Yansen out.
When passing through the office area, people kept casting curious glances at me.
"Eh? Isn't this Mr. Zhou from DST Capital? Why is he in the company? Is the company looking for financing again? I haven't heard about it."
"I heard that Zhou Shouzhi was hired by the boss with a high salary. The HR department has even written the appointment email and is waiting for Mr. Chen to notify him."
"Shit! No way?"
Several employees from the marketing department lowered their heads and discussed in low voices.
Chen Yansen and Zhou Shouzhi came to the floor where the artificial intelligence laboratory was located.
Zhou Shouzhi looked around with a hint of surprise in his eyes. He didn't expect that there were hundreds of foreign R&D engineers hiding in the Orange Technology headquarters.
“Most of the speech recognition, natural language processing, and speech synthesis technologies of Moss and Alexa’s voice interaction engine were handled by them,” Chen Yansen explained with a smile.
Since there are huge differences between Chinese and English in terms of semantic richness, language structure, character set, word segmentation, data richness, etc., we were divided into two groups when developing the algorithm training model.
"boss!"
"Boss!"
Zhou Chuangxi and Daniel came over on their own initiative.
"Let me introduce you two. This is Zhou Shouzhi, formerly the co-founder of DST Capital in Dahua, and now the chief financial officer of Orange Technology."
Chen Yansen said slowly.
Zhou Shouzhi stretched out his right hand and greeted Zhou Chuangxi and Daniel respectively.
When he learned that Zhou Chuangxi was a Ph.D. in electronic engineering from UIUC and studied under the father of computer vision in the Beacon Country, he was only slightly surprised, but when he heard Daniel's resume, he was stunned and his face was full of shock.
He subconsciously turned his head to look at the wheat field outside the window. This place also hid a professor from Johns Hopkins University and a god-level researcher in the field of speech recognition?
The magical sense of dislocation made Zhou Shouzhi feel unreal.
Then, after Zhou Chuangxi took him around, Zhou Shouzhi realized that there were also R&D engineers who had participated in the ImageNet (Visual Recognition Challenge) competition, senior researchers at Stanford University's AI Laboratory, algorithm designers at Carnegie Mellon University, and technical experts from Google and Microsoft laboratories.
Zhou Shouzhi looked confused. If Chen Yansen hadn't been following him, he would have really wanted to ask, "How much money did Orange Technology pay to allow you guys to come to China to work?"
He didn't understand, but was shocked.
At four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, an email was sent to everyone's mailbox: From now on (August 13), Zhou Shouzhi will serve as the CFO of Orange Technology.
Orange Technology has entered a rapid running phase! On the other side.
With the help of AutoNavi Maps, Kuaidi Taxi has steadily promoted the "Thousand People and Hundred Cities" plan, and its business scope has gradually expanded from some cities in East China to Yanjing, Beihe, Tianjin and other regions.
The average daily order volume exceeds 2 million!
However, the number of orders fulfilled by Didi Chuxing per day still hovers between 400,000 and 500,000.
It’s not that Cheng Wei didn’t work hard enough, but Kuaidi Taxi has the traffic support from AutoNavi, Kuaipao, Orange App Store, Lingxi Browser and Toutiao. It looks like 1V1, but in fact it is 1V6.
Because when Yunsu couriers deliver the parcels, they will also give the users a promotional poster for Kuaidi Taxi.
"Li Yanhong is such a loser! Why hasn't the new version of the Baidu map been released yet?" Cheng Wei, who was waiting anxiously, couldn't help but curse inwardly.
(End of this chapter)
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