"The chairman taught you the right lesson, it's me who is shallow!"
Subordinate Lu Yuanhui had a complicated look on his face. He never expected that in the opinion of the chairman, the future of Xingyi Mobile could be so brilliant!
It even hopes to become a mobile phone giant comparable to Apple and Samsung, and compete with Apple and Samsung!
How can this be?
Wang Dachuan picked up the tea cup and smiled slightly: "Don't look at the current Baidu blocking of Xingyi videos. They are domineering and powerful. When Xingyi mobile phone becomes larger in the future and has tens of millions of users, we still don't know who has blocked whom!"
"This..." Lu Yuanhui was stunned and felt incredible: "Is it possible that Xingyi Technology will be so powerful in the future? Can it block Baidu?"
More than ten years later, Baidu's market value is only about 280 billion, only one-tenth of Tencent's, completely lagging behind BAT.
But in 2011, Baidu's market value exceeded 280 billion, which is unlimited glory!
It can be said that in the minds of everyone, Baidu is currently the number one Internet player in China!
The Internet's top brother was blocked by the emerging Xingyi Technology?
Lu Yuanhui would never have imagined such an outrageous thing.
But as the chairman of Sogou, Wang Dachuan has a long-term vision:
"Yuan Hui, you're in trouble. In the current era of PC Internet, Baidu is mighty. But the future is the world of mobile Internet! By then, Baidu will decline."
"The Xingyi mobile phone can sell 4 million units a month. It has a bright future and is bound to become a mobile phone giant in the future. Mobile phones control the entrance to the mobile Internet. The prospects and development of Xingyi Technology are immeasurable!"
Lu Yuanhui suddenly realized: "Chairman, I understand. Supporting Xingyi Technology now is considered an early investment. In the future, when our Sogou browser, Sogou input method and other products are launched on Xingyi mobile phones, we can also obtain more resources!"
"That's right, let's do it!" Wang Dachuan said with a smile.
Sogou is suppressed by Baidu, so it has to form an alliance to fight against Baidu!
Xingyi Technology is a good choice.
Tencent headquarters.
"Chairman, do we want to take action in the battle between Baidu and Xingyi Technology?"
Director Ma thought for a while: "When two tigers fight, one will be injured. But the opportunity cannot be missed, and it will never come back. Let QQ Browser and Tencent Soso take action! We publicly declare that we will never block our friends or suppress our customers."
, there will be no unfair competition! Let’s grab Baidu’s market share first!”
"Hahaha, okay!"
Director Ma changed the topic: "Also, let Tencent Video also grab a wave of traffic. Let's say that Tencent Video calls for the protection of genuine copies and opposes infringement by friends!"
"Okay!" The subordinate smiled.
Baidu is the biggest enemy right now!
No matter who works at Baidu, Goose Factory is willing to help, not to mention taking the opportunity to grab Baidu’s traffic and users!
Soon, major Internet giants issued statements one after another:
[360 Browser: We will not use our monopoly position to block and suppress friends! The homepage of 360 Browser is directly connected to Xingyi Video Network, welcome to use it!]
[QQ Browser: Oppose unfair competition and respect the rights and interests of users. Everyone is welcome to use QQ Browser.]
[Sogou Browser: Be a person and do things according to your duty. When searching for Xingyi videos, use Sogou without any restrictions! 】
[Tencent Sosou: We will never block friends and merchants, and we will never restrict users’ search permissions! Tencent Sosou is here to serve you wholeheartedly!]
…
For a time, many search engines and browsers jumped out and issued statements.
While openly and covertly condemning Baidu, at the same time grabbing customers!
Seeing this scene, Jian Ziyan was very excited, but Baidu was gloomy!
Chairman Li Yan's face turned dark: "These damn bastards really don't miss any opportunity to steal Baidu users! Damn it, it's too hateful!"
"Look at Sogou, you are a person and do things according to your duty! Who are you scolding?"
"There is also 360, which is just trying to grab users. They also put the link to Xingyi Video Network directly on the browser homepage, for fear that others will not see it!"
"Tencent Sosou is also trying to steal our Baidu search engine users. QQ Browser is grabbing our Baidu browser users!"
"There is really no limit!"
Li Yan never imagined that just by cleaning up Xingyi Technology, the situation would develop to this point.
What’s more, I didn’t expect these friends to act so quickly, forming a group to attack Baidu and steal customers!
Shameless, no limits!
But in the current situation, he seems to have no other solution besides anger!
Li Yan can control the public opinion on Baidu Tieba, but he cannot control the public opinion on Weibo!
As for Xingyi Technology and other giants, they all launched attacks on the four major Weibos, and Li Yan was helpless.
We can only continue to hold high-level meetings to discuss countermeasures.
Looking at this scene, Jian Ziyan was filled with joy:
"Chairman, as you expected, Baidu's friends and businessmen have all taken action! Attacking Baidu, hahaha!"
Wang Yi was not surprised.
Times are different, but the gameplay is still the same.
In the past life, when a brand had a problem, other competitors would rush in to grab traffic and customers!
Now that Baidu is in trouble, other browsers will not let go of this wave of falling traffic. This wave of opportunities to increase users!
After all, Baidu search engine monopolizes 76% of the domestic market share. Competitors such as Tencent Sosou and Sogou will of course take the opportunity to seize the market!
The shopping mall is like a battlefield, of course it will take advantage of your illness to kill you!
In fact, this is not only true in shopping malls, but also in villages.
When a natural disaster or earthquake occurs in a village, surrounding villages will inevitably take action immediately.
It's not aid, it's grabbing territory, or even starting a war!
The main thing is to take advantage of your illness and kill you!
This is why after a major earthquake occurs, all war zones will enter a state of combat readiness as soon as possible to prevent disasters.
As for why when something goes wrong in some villages, neighboring villages don’t dare to move?
It can only be said that the village is too strong and cannot do it...
Anyone who can do it will take action as soon as possible!
After all, that was the case in the last century.
Similarly, now that Baidu is seeking death, other competitors will certainly not give up.
Regarding this, Jian Ziyan was full of curiosity: "Chairman, you expected this scene from the beginning! So the purpose of announcing mobile phone sales and showing off your strength is to attract Baidu's competitors to attack Baidu!"
Wang Yi smiled slightly: "Ziyan, did you know that when a whale falls, all things come to life?"
"I know! Even if a whale falls in the sea, a prosperous and huge marine community can be formed!"
"I don't think so!" Wang Yi smiled slightly.
"What does the chairman think of this problem?" Jian Ziyan's beautiful eyes turned and she became interested.
Wang Yi explained: "When a whale dies, it can eat less than tens of thousands of marine creatures, and those tens of thousands of marine creatures will survive. This is how one whale falls and all things survive!"
"???" Jian Ziyan was startled, and then suddenly realized: "Baidu is that whale. If it is allowed to develop, it will swallow up and kill companies of all sizes. But once Baidu goes cold, many emerging companies will survive.
Come down!"
Wang Yi nodded: "You can say that."
In the previous life, Baidu's continuous decline led to the rapid rise of other companies.
If Baidu continues to advance rapidly and its market capitalization skyrockets from 280 billion to 2800 billion, then a large number of other Internet giants will lose a lot, and even the top giants will die!
After all, the market is so big!
If Baidu is not cool, how can other giants have a future?
Likewise, it is the same in this life.
Baidu is not cool, how does Xingyi Technology rise?
The rise of Xingyi Technology is to seize the market of European and American giants externally, and seize the territory of giants such as BAT internally!
Whether it is the global market or the domestic market, it is so big and will not expand infinitely, but will only wax and wane!
This is also the reason why Wang Yi chose Baidu for surgery.
Although Baidu is now the number one BAT player, it is the one with the least future and the one with the best control.
Let alone Tencent and Alibaba, after many years, Baidu will not be as good as half of Meituan!
In the PC era, Baidu controls search engines and is the absolute king.
But in the mobile Internet era, Baidu is in decline.
It is precisely because of this that Baidu in its previous life still had a market value of 280 billion ten years later. It seems that the market value has not dropped in the past ten years, but it has dropped sharply.
After all, the average salary now is 2,000, but ten years later it will be 5,000 or 6,000.
Similarly, 280 billion ten years from now will be far less valuable than 100 billion now!
If Baidu is defeated and Baidu's market share is captured, Xingyi Technology will rise completely and replace it!
However, Xingyi Technology needs to have its own browser and search engine so that it can not fear Baidu's blockade and suppression.
It is relatively easy to make your own browser, but it is very slow to develop a self-developed search engine, and it is difficult to achieve results in a short period of time.
Without him, search engines not only need core technology, but also huge databases and data centers!
The threshold is not generally high!
It is precisely because of this that there were so many browsers in the previous life, but only a few that really had the core technology of search engines, such as Google, Baidu, Tencent, and Sogou.
If Wang Yi developed his own search engine, it would take a long time, even several years.
This is too slow!
The war with Baidu has begun, and Wang Yike cannot wait that long.
If you can directly acquire one, that would be even better!
Currently, Baidu dominates the domestic search engine market, accounting for 76% of the market share.
Google, which withdrew from mainland China, came in second, still accounting for 4% of the market share.
Sogou ranked third, accounting for 4%.
The fourth place is Sosou, accounting for 3%!
Other search engines combined account for 4%!
Wang Yi looked at the current data and couldn't help but fall silent.
Sogou is backed by Sohu, and Soso is affiliated with Tencent. They all have giants as backers, but they still only occupy a small market share. It can only be said that the threshold for search engine core technology is too high, and the barriers are too high!
Even Tencent and Sohu can't play it.
Similarly, if Wang Yi had to start from scratch, it would be difficult to reach the sky.
It is far better to directly acquire a company and then use it to compete with Baidu to gradually develop.
Of course, Wang Yi's advantage is the mobile terminal, which is Xingyi mobile phone.
By then, Xingyi mobile phones will be directly built-in and will naturally develop rapidly.
As for the acquisition target, there is no choice but Sogou!
Other Baidu, Google, and Tencent Sosou are simply impossible to sell!
Sogou was originally a business unit of Sohu. In 2010, in order to introduce investment from Alibaba, it became independent from Sohu and became an independent company.
If Wang Yiruo directly takes over Sogou, he will not only have Sogou search engine, but also Sogou high-speed browser and Sogou input method!
It can be said that all of Xingyi Technology’s territories were completed in one fell swoop!
In addition, there is even a map service!
As early as 2005, Sohu acquired Go2map, introduced all the rich map data into the Sogou search engine, and was the first to launch a map search service!
It was after seeing Sogou Map that Baidu followed suit and made Baidu Map!
But unfortunately, the love triangle of Alibaba, Sogou, and Sohu is destined to be in different beds.
So in 2012, Sogou repurchased Alibaba’s shares.
Later, the parent company Sohu was in decline and faced a shortage of funds, which made Sogou's development difficult.
Sohu Maps has become worth mentioning and cannot compete with Baidu and Amap.
Until later, Sohu declined and sold all of Sogou to Tencent, starting a new era.
After becoming a subsidiary of Tencent, Sogou Search integrated Tencent Search and grew rapidly.
However, Sogou Maps was announced to be offline and merged into Tencent Maps.
In fact, Sogou's algorithm is very powerful, and its search results are more accurate than Baidu's, and very close to Google. However, its shortcomings are insufficient funds and insufficient databases, which have affected Sogou's development.
If Sogou had a database like Baidu, Baidu would have nothing to do with it.
After thinking about this clearly, Wang Yi couldn't help but sigh: "Sogou is a very promising young man, but he was born into a difficult family like Sohu. His future is destined to be bumpy."
And Wang Dachuan, the founder of Sogou, is even more powerful, no less powerful than Zhang Yang, the chairman of Sohu!
Whether it is to compete with Baidu or the rapid development of Xingyi Technology, Sogou must acquire it!
And Wang Dachuan also has to be taken under his command!
Such cutting-edge core talents, after Wang Yi fully acquired Sogou, were willing to share Wang Dachuan's shares, allowing Wang Dachuan to grow bigger and stronger with Sogou, and achieve financial freedom.
After all, the soul of Sogou is Wang Dachuan!
Without Wang Dachuan, there would be no Sogou!
"Ziyan, check Sogou's current share structure!"
"Okay, Chairman!"
Jian Ziyan opened her notebook, searched quickly, and quickly found out:
"Chairman, Sogou's largest shareholder is Sohu, accounting for 53% of the shares.
The second largest shareholder, Zhang Yang’s personal fund Photon, holds 16% of the shares.
Alibaba, the third largest shareholder, holds 10% of the shares.
The fourth largest shareholder, China Web owned by Yunfeng, holds 6% of the shares.
The fifth largest shareholder, CEO Wang Dachuan, holds 5% of the shares.
In addition, other management of Sogou holds 5% of the shares. Sohu’s management holds 5% of the shares.”
Wang Yi nodded: "In the entire Sogou, 74% of the shares are controlled by Sohu, 10% are controlled by Sogou, and only 16% are in the hands of third parties!"
No wonder Alibaba failed to achieve much after investing in Sogou and gave up after two years.
Without him, the entire Sogou family belongs to the Zhang family, and Alibaba doesn’t have much say, so how can it invest heavily?
If Sogou was controlled by Alibaba, Alibaba would naturally be willing to invest heavily. But unfortunately...
"So whether we can successfully acquire Sogou depends on whether Director Zhang agrees or not!" Wang Yi sighed.
Jian Ziyan nodded: "That's right. In October 2010, Alibaba invested US$15 million in Sogou to obtain 10% of its shares. Sogou's valuation at that time was US$500 million! As for Sogou's current valuation, it is currently unclear.
.But it should be more than 200 million US dollars.”
"Almost!" Wang Yi nodded.
In a previous life, in July 2012, Sohu repurchased Sogou shares held by Alibaba for US$25.8 million, with a valuation of US$5.8 billion!
Now that Wang Yi wants to acquire Sogou, he will need almost this amount, or even higher.
At the very least, Zhang Yang must be willing to sell it outright!
If only 10% is sold, Wang Yi, like Alibaba, will not have much say and will not invest heavily.
Even Xingyi Technology's resources will not be given more.
Without him and holding 10% of the shares, Wang Yi is Sogou’s godfather and Sohu is his biological father.
Holding 90% of the shares, Wang Yi is the real father of Sogou!
This point must be clearly distinguished between biological son and godson.
Sohu was still very powerful in 2011, with a market value of 27 billion yuan. Like Sina, NetEase, and Shanda, it belonged to the second echelon after BAT!
But soon, Sohu completely fell behind and lost its reputation.
Zhang Yang was also very helpless about this.
But Zhang Yang's group of younger brothers are more awesome than the others.
For example, the founders of Youku, iQiyi, Ku6.com, Renren.com, Kongkong.com, and YY... all came from Sohu and are all Lao Zhang’s younger brothers!
Sohu - the Whampoa Military Academy of the domestic Internet!
"Ziyan, help me contact Director Zhang. I have to go and meet him in person."
For an existence of Zhang Yang's level, Wang Yida had to go and talk to him personally.
As one of the major Internet portals, Sohu is currently at its peak.
Don’t even think about the full acquisition of Sohu unless Wang Yi talks about it in person!
"Okay, Chairman, I'll contact you right away."
Soon, Jian Ziyan made an appointment: "Chairman, Director Zhang is free tomorrow. Look..."
"Then let's do it tomorrow afternoon!" Wang Yida said, since they are all in the imperial capital, it is convenient.
The war with Baidu is fierce and there is no possibility of reconciliation in a short time.
Sogou’s business must be taken down as soon as possible!
In this way, Xingyi Technology suddenly has a search engine, browser, map, and input method!
By then, you can definitely challenge Baidu!
"Okay, Chairman."
7pm.
Wang Yi and Lin Shu had dinner together.
Lin Shu was a little worried and hesitated: "Xiaoyi, Baidu's ban, I..."
Wang Yi waved his hand: "It's okay. Because of this wave of traffic, the number of users of our Xingyi Video has not decreased, but has increased dramatically. A good thing."
"After you can..."
"It will be better in the future, don't worry, everything is under control." Wang Yixiao said.
"That's good, hehe, Xiaoyi is great!" Lin Shu breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still a little worried.
But I'm just a student, so I can't help with anything.
Lin Shu made up his mind to study hard in the future!
At the same time, Baidu headquarters was brightly lit.
From employees to senior management, no one left.
Li Yan finally suppressed his anger, and the vice president rushed in again:
"Chairman, it's bad, IE browser, Open browser, Google, etc. have also jumped out and criticized us!"
Li Yantou was as big as a bucket: "!!!"
[Google: Using its monopoly position to restrict user searches harms users’ rights and is unfair competition. Companies with conscience will not do such stupid things!]
"Fake!" Li Yan was so angry that he even shouted in English: "Google is unwilling to withdraw from the mainland market!"
Before Google withdrew, Baidu could not achieve a monopoly position.
After Google left, Baidu only captured 76% of the market share!
"Chairman, the current situation is too unfavorable for us. On one side is the lawsuit from Xingyi Technology, and we are tired of dealing with it. On the other side, major search engines and browsers are jumping out to grab our market share! On the other side, there are users
boycott! What should we do?”
The vice president was also anxious.
"What can we do?" Li Yan couldn't think of a good countermeasure for a while:
"Let those high-level officials think about it and see what countermeasures they have! If not, we can only let time solve everything, but it is absolutely impossible to reconcile with Xingyi Technology! It will never be possible!"
"Yes, we can't compromise. When facing Tencent and Ali, we didn't compromise, let alone Xingyi Technology?"
Li Yan took a deep breath: "Tell other senior management, temporary gains and losses mean nothing, the key is to see who laughs in the end. So many browsers and search engines pop up, it is just a chaotic dance of demons, not worth mentioning! Our Baidu search engine occupies 76
% of the market, we are the absolute hegemon, and no one can shake us! Those who said they should boycott us found that other search engines were not easy to use, and eventually had to switch back to Baidu!"
"Yes, Sogou and Sosou are both failing, and Google has withdrawn. Our Baidu search engine has no rivals, so we will definitely have the best laugh!"
The vice president also gained confidence: "Then I will send an internal letter to encourage everyone?"
"Okay!" Li Yan nodded: "In addition, we should also buck the trend and do more promotion for Baidu Browser!"
"Okay, as long as Baidu Browser's market share reaches the top three, other browsers will be on the verge of bankruptcy!"
Li Yan smiled coldly: "That's it. This is the main battlefield. As for Xingyi Video? Don't bother with it, just continue to block it! Although iQiyi has lost traffic, because of our ban, Xingyi Video will not be better for long, unless
They can break through our search blocks!"
Baidu’s blocking of Xingyi Video is not only blocked by Baidu browser, but also blocked by Baidu search engine.
At present, Baidu browser has just started for half a year and has a small market share, but Baidu search engine is terrifying.
Once it is blocked by Baidu search engine, it will not work with other browsers, unless the search engine has to be changed to Soso, Google, or Sogou!
This is the fatal ban on Xingyi’s video!
The vice president nodded, and then his expression changed slightly: "I'm worried that the stock price will fall. After all, statements from foreign search engines such as Google will attract global attention, and the U.S. stock market is about to open, so our stock price is bound to plummet..."
"Alas!" Li Yan let out a long sigh: "Let it fall, it's only temporary. As long as Baidu Browser's market share increases by leaps and bounds, our stock price will rise sooner or later!"
There is nothing we can do about this.
The losses from this incident far exceeded his expectations.
Sure enough, as soon as the US stock market opened in the evening, Baidu's stock price plummeted!
For such a giant, if the stock price fluctuates by just one percentage point, it can cost hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of yuan!
Li Yan stared at the stock price on the screen, his face as gloomy as an ice cellar!
In just a quarter of an hour, it fell by 2%, evaporating 5.6 billion!
This kind of momentum is really terrible.
However, this is just the beginning!
Baidu's monopoly, blocking, and suppression behavior... Not only are domestic users disgusted, but European and American users are even more angry.
Many capital giants are preparing to run away.
Otherwise, in 2011, domestic anti-monopoly had not yet started, but in Europe and the United States, monopoly was a serious crime!
Once this label is applied, it will be a fine of tens of billions of yuan, or even tens of billions!
The stock price is bound to plummet!
Baidu's behavior today, in the eyes of European and American capital giants, has indeed gone over the line.
In addition, iQiyi’s revenue was severely impacted by Xingyi Video, plummeting, and it was also suspected of copyright prosecution!
Capital giants are even less optimistic about Baidu, and many have begun to run away.
As a result, half an hour after the market opened, Baidu's stock price fell by 5%, and its market value evaporated by 14 billion!
In desperation, Baidu could only mobilize reserve funds to rescue the market, and then barely stopped the decline.
If it continues to fall, who knows how much it will fall.
I really can't bear it.
That night, Li Yan couldn't sleep all night again.
Different from yesterday, last night he was waiting for Wang Yi's counterattack and he didn't dare to sleep.
I couldn't sleep today because of Wang Yi's counterattack!
More than 10 billion evaporated in one night, can you still sleep?
But Wang Yi on the other side was holding Lin Shu and sleeping soundly!
As soon as he turned around, his hands skillfully climbed to the top.
Lin Shu opened his eyes, sighed quietly, and could only let Wang Yi be unrestrained and continue sleeping.
It seems that everyone is used to it...
Early the next morning, Wang Yi came to Xingyi Technology.
Jian Ziyan heard the movement and quickly came over with a stack of documents:
"Chairman, I have compiled yesterday's data report for you, please take a look!"
Wang Yi took it and was very satisfied.
Jian Ziyan not only organized the data reports for each business, but also wrote simple analysis summaries.
Even Baidu’s share price and market value have been adjusted.
Wang Yi smiled: "Yesterday, Baidu's stock price fell by 4%, evaporating 15 billion?"
Jian Ziyan nodded: "Yes, because Baidu spent 5 billion to rescue the market and repurchased some stocks. Otherwise, it will continue to fall!"
"Very good. It's just the first day. Baidu lost 15 billion. It's great. It's a good start!"
Wang Yi was very satisfied and continued to check Xingyi Technology's report: "Yesterday, we added 300,000 full-price orders for xphone 1? X buds also increased 400,000 orders?"
"Yes, Chairman, since you disclosed the sales of xphone 1 and said that the production capacity has been increased, consumers have been placing orders again as soon as they can get the goods within half a month! The same is true for x buds."
"Okay, after being blocked by Baidu, our sales of xphone 1 exploded again, which is a good thing."
Wang Yi smiled: "Baidu lost 15 billion, and we earned 1.6 billion more, which is good!"
"Not only that, the number of users of Xingyi Video and Xingyi Music has also increased a lot, and the number of paid VIPs has also increased a lot."
Jian Ziyan said with a smile: "In this battle with Baidu, the popularity and popularity of our Xingyi Video and Xingyi Music have increased dramatically. How can I put it? Users seem to be rebellious. The more Baidu blocks Xingyi Video, the more they
The more you support Xingyi Video!”
"Yes, that's it. Baidu understands capital but doesn't understand users, so it is doomed to fail!" Wang Yixiao said:
"Our war with Baidu is destined to be a protracted war. At this stage, we are victorious, and we will win even more completely in the future! Collect all the information on Sohu and Sogou for me, and go see Director Zhang in the afternoon!"
"Chairman, everything is ready for you!"
With that said, Jian Ziyan picked up a stack of documents on the table and handed them to Wang Yi.
"That's right, I can rest assured that you will do the work!" Wang Yi beamed with joy.
A smart assistant knows what the chairman needs and prepares it in advance!
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Chapter completed!