"President Lin, it's done! It's finally done!"
"What's done?" Lin Chen and An Rou were completely confused.
"I guess you'll like it!" Zhang Yiming said excitedly.
Lin Chen jumped up from his seat: "Really?!"
"It really works! I've already tested it, and the push notification accuracy has reached 80%."
"Let's go, let's go take a look."
Zhang Yiming led Lin Chen out, leaving An Rou still bewildered. "Guess what you like? Like what? How do you guess? What are you guys talking about?"
Lin Chen stared at the dense code on Zhang Yiming's computer, his eyes shining. The code was beautifully written, using various user behavior data on Huasuan.com, including search history, browsing history, favorites history, dwell time, etc., to make "you might like" product recommendations for users.
"I'll give it a try."
Lin Chen opened the test address, logged into his account, and clicked on the "You May Also Like" channel.
The results were all about JK uniforms, stockings, stepmother skirts, maid outfits...
Startled, Lin Chen quickly closed the browser and then cleared all browser history in one swift motion.
"Ahem, whose account data wasn't cleared properly just now, right? I never look at these things."
"You guessed pretty accurately," Lin Chen thought to himself.
Zhang Yiming kept his eyes down, pretending he knew nothing.
The scene became somewhat awkward at one point.
Lin Chen coughed and broke the silence: "Since we've already tested it, let's go live. Let's do some indiscriminate traffic generation for a week and see how it goes."
"Okay, Mr. Lin."
After returning to his office, Lin Chen started making phone calls.
"Hey, Brother Yong, this is Lin Chen."
"Brother Lin, it's been a long time since we last contacted each other. Your mobile phone business is really booming lately. Our boss, Mr. Ma, asked me to ask if you'd like to invest?"
"Hey, we're selling at a loss right now. 1999, how can we make any money? It's just doing it out of passion. We'll come back to Mr. Ma for investment when we actually make money. By the way, I called you this time for something else."
"Oh? What is it?"
"We at Huasuan.com are preparing to launch a new channel called 'Guess You Like.' We will recommend products to users based on their preferences, and clicking on them will take them to the product details page on the corresponding website. I just tested it and found it quite useful. That's why I immediately thought of you, Yong Ge. Do you have a list of Taobao stores that need recommendations? I can give you a free trial for a week to see how it goes."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Yong thought, "Guess what you like? Recommend products based on user preferences? Can they really guess accurately?" He figured this sly fox just wanted Taobao to let him test the new feature for free. But since it was free, he figured he might as well take advantage of it and agreed, "Thanks a lot, I'll send you the list later."
After ending his call with Zhang Yong, Lin Chen called Liu Qiangdong and Zhang Wenyi respectively.
Lin Chen just wanted to let them know in advance that they were about to experience a windfall of wealth, so they wouldn't be wondering who would give it to them later.
That evening at 8 PM, Huasuan.com underwent an epic update, launching its fourth major channel—"You May Also Like"—following its online shopping, food delivery, and group-buying channels.
Netizens were initially confused when they saw this name. "Guess what I like? What do I like that you can know?"
Until they clicked on this channel.
Half an hour later, the comment section of Huasuan.com's official Weibo account was flooded with comments.
"Holy crap, Huasuan.com, how did you guess what I like?"
"Brothers, I've already placed three orders in the past half hour. This channel is really dangerous to browse; their predictions are too accurate."
"It's not accurate at all! When I opened it, it recommended all kinds of stockings to me, such as black stockings, gradient stockings, horse oil stockings, pearlescent stockings, suspender lace stockings, but I'm a man."
"Upstairs, hearing your detailed knowledge of stockings, I knew I was right."
"Don't even mention it. I just opened it in my dorm and it recommended an inflatable doll to me. I'm so ashamed to face anyone now."
You can tell how accurate your guess is simply by looking at the transaction records of several major shopping platforms.
At 9 p.m., Zhang Yong was getting a foot massage with several big bosses from Tmall when his phone rang. He looked at the screen and saw it was his secretary calling.
"Hey, what's up? What's wrong?"
"Mr. Zhang, something terrible has happened!"
"What is it?" Zhang Yong unconsciously sat up straight.
"My colleague who is in charge of the testing data just told me that starting at 8 pm tonight, the number of orders has surged, increasing by 30% compared to usual, and it's still rising."
Have you investigated where this traffic came from?
"All of these traffic came from Huasuan.com, but we haven't been spending money on Huasuan.com for traffic recently, which is why I called you to ask if you have any cooperation with Mr. Lin?"
cooperate?
Zhang Yong thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered the phone call Lin Chen had made to him. Could it be? The "Guess You Like" guess was really that accurate?
"I'll be right back."
Zhang Yong hung up the phone and was about to tell the bosses when they all received calls one after another, and their expressions changed drastically.
Business people are actually quite afraid of encountering such a sudden surge in orders. If it's from normal customers, that's naturally a good thing. But if someone maliciously places a huge number of orders and then cancels them in bulk after the merchant has received the goods, it will result in a large amount of inventory.
Subsequently, the big bosses all found an excuse to leave first.
Zhang Yong returned to Taobao headquarters, where his secretary continued to follow up on the matter in the technology department.
Zhang Yong came to the technical department and asked, "Can we find the page address that led to the orders from Huasuan.com?"
"Mr. Zhang, that's fine."
"Export all these addresses and see if they all come from the same page."
The data analyst exported all the referral URLs and then began analyzing the URL structure. First, they removed the domain names of the initial "Huasuan.com" and then continued to investigate the paths.
I was shocked to find out that all of them originated from a path called guess under the Huasuan.com website.
If Lin Chen hadn't called Zhang Yong before, Zhang Yong would have been completely baffled by the path name. But now it's easy to guess: guess you like it!
"Check if there are any updates on the deals website today?"
The data analyst checked the Huasuan.com website and found an update announcement posted at 8:00 AM, which highlighted the "You May Also Like" channel.
Zhang Yong was shocked. Was his guess really that accurate? It's only been two hours! No, wait, it was only nine o'clock when his secretary called him, so it's only been an hour!
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