Vol 5 Chapter 1102: Huanjun Mingzhu

Watching the door close from the outside, Chief Yang said, "I can make an extra promise,"

Extra commitment? And looking at his solemn appearance, this should be a substantial promise.

Feng Yiping was very curious about such things that had never happened before.

He glanced at the old horse and found that the old horse just came over, let alone, Chief Yang's move really successfully aroused their curiosity.

Feng Yiping also saw pride in Lao Ma's eyes.

Yahoo is a world-renowned high-tech giant, Chief Yang is a person who, no matter what, will leave a fortune in the history of the world, and want to invest in a company he founded. This is indeed something to be proud of.

But after Chief Yang said these words, he was silent for a while.

He clenched his hands into a fist and looked down at the computer screen in front of him, as if what he wanted to say was on the computer, but he couldn't even see what was written on it.

Feng Yiping can be sure that this is not a sell-off.

Because in terms of time, it won’t take so long to sell off.

This should be just the solemnity of Chief Yang, or that although he acted very firmly, in fact, he is also struggling now, which further illustrates that the extra promise he is going to talk about is very serious.

Lao Ma leaned over and said softly to Feng Yiping, "Yiping, look...," he gestured to the other side.

Feng Yiping nodded.

So the old horse coughed slightly, and then said, "Jerry, we are all very grateful for your importance to our company, and I am really moved by your persistence, but this is how it is, from all aspects, we really have not introduced Necessary for other investments,"

"So we really don't want you to be embarrassed, okay? You rarely come here. Next...,"

Chief Yang looked up at this moment, "I can make additional promises that Yahoo's related patents, core technologies in email and instant messaging, and," he paused for a while, "including the core technologies in search, it will be all for you. open,"

The old Ma who was talking was stunned, and Feng Yiping was also stunned.

No wonder Chief Yang is so solemn.

Because what Chief Yang said is not easy to measure with money, what he said is the core asset of any company.

A well-known high-tech company like Yahoo is certainly not only well-known, otherwise, it is impossible for Microsoft to spend more than $40 billion to acquire it when its decline is obvious, and the premium seems to exceed 50%.

The ghostly Microsoft will not make fun of tens of billions of dollars. What they value, except for Yahoo's successful investments in China and Japan, are these core assets that Chief Yang said.

Western high-tech companies have always attached great importance to patents, because they will directly bring profits.

Not to mention the patents created by Yahoo itself, just think about the large and small acquisitions of Yahoo in the past few years, which will obviously make their patent library larger and larger (in history, they were eventually stripped of the shares of Ali and Yahoo Japan Before the shameful acquisition for less than US$5 billion, just as many domestic A-share companies sold one house this quarter and one set next quarter for the sake of their financial statements, Yahoo also sold them for financial statements. Many patents, even sold thousands of patents to Google).

Before Google went public last year, wasn't it because of a patent dispute with Yahoo that almost caused the listing to fail, and finally had to spend a huge sum of money to settle the patent lawsuit?

And Yahoo's search is by no means as weak as most people think.

No matter how strong Google is, Yahoo’s search share in the United States has never been less than 20%.

It seems that Microsoft acquired Yahoo later because of this consideration. In the United States, it and Yahoo’s search share combined, although it is still not as high as Google, but it is enough to compete with Google.

As for Yahoo's mailbox, it is naturally not covered. I believe that for the first time, and probably the last time that many people in China have an intersection with Yahoo, it is to register its mailbox.

The same is true for instant messaging. Now in China, in addition to Penguin and Microsoft's MSN, Yahoo is ranked third.

Feng Yiping glanced at Lao Ma. At that time, Lao Ma chose to cooperate with Yahoo. He did not have this consideration, because e-commerce has never been possible without search.

The essence of search is massive. If you look at it from this perspective, whether it is a company like Jiasheng Mall or Taobao, although there is no special search department and a special search tool is launched, in fact, the entire company is doing it. search for.

Chief Yang saw the expression he wanted on Feng Yiping and Lao Ma's face for the first time. That's good. He knew that the decision he made seemed to have finally worked.

This allowed him to temporarily put aside the series of troubles that he had caused after making this promise. Now, he is more and more convinced that as long as he contributes to this matter, how much trouble he has, it must be worth it. .

"We all know that e-commerce is inseparable from search, and Yahoo, precisely in the vertical search field, has great advantages," he further explained.

Search and vertical search, that is, general search and vertical search, are still very different. We can roughly say that vertical search is a search developed on the basis of general search.

General search provides you with many and complicated content, while vertical search provides you with specialized and sophisticated content.

General search can only give you clues and web pages, while vertical search will further analyze and process the data on this basis and give you results that are more in line with your conditions.

For comparison, we can imagine the different results obtained by searching for "long trousers" on Du Niang and "searching" for long trousers on Taobao.

Naturally the latter is more useful.

That is, for e-commerce companies, vertical search technology is very useful.

Or put it this way, except for a few e-commerce companies, other e-commerce companies use vertical search.

But unfortunately, Jiasheng Ali is naturally one of the few e-commerce companies.

That's why Chief Yang, who was happy for a while, soon saw regretful expressions on Feng Yiping and Lao Ma's faces.

"Neither of us knows the technology, but before the merger, our engineers have come to a consistent conclusion on this issue, mainly for three reasons, the general vertical search cannot meet our requirements,"

"In order to provide users with the best experience, we are developing e-commerce search technology suitable for us," said Lao Ma.

"I remember these three aspects, because of the dynamic nature of the content, the messiness of the content, and the massive amount of transaction data that will be faced in the future," Feng Yiping added, "so they believe that there must be something more suitable for us. E-commerce search, of course, we have been doing this work before."

"To be honest, because we don't understand technology, we two don't understand the difference and necessity in this respect too much. Chief, you are a great technical expert. I believe you can see the difference here."

In fact, he and Lao Ma just didn't understand at first, but they have already understood that the engineers of the two companies will naturally find a way to clarify these differences to the boss.

Chief Yang thought for a while, and he understood.

It is dynamic and easy to understand. A lot of information on e-commerce websites is changing at any time.

The clutter is also well understood. For example, the same computer may have many different names in different stores.

Massive transaction data should not refer to the large transaction volume, but mainly refers to the e-commerce platform, there are tens of thousands of individuals who are driven by benefits, and every decision made by an affected e-commerce platform. All may be amplified by the market, or distorted...

He shook his head, "You are right. In these senses, the search you need is qualitatively different from the general search, including vertical search."

"Heh," he leaned back on the chair, looked up at the ceiling, and scratched his head a few times, "I think I have done my best,"

For this reason, how could he not understand that Feng Yiping and Lao Ma are really not interested in cooperating with Yahoo at all?

"Jerry, I think whether it is me or Yiping, if it is not confirmed that our two companies cooperate, then for us, cooperating with Yahoo is our best choice and our honor," said Lao Ma.

This is similar to sending a good person card to comfort.

To be honest, maybe he doesn't need it, but Chief Yang looks really sympathetic now.

"Yeah, Chief, to be honest, I think Mr. Ma is like me. I never thought that our e-commerce project would have the opportunity to cooperate with a well-known company like Yahoo. However, we have now merged and found a direction. "Feng Yiping said.

"To make an inappropriate metaphor, Yahoo has a bit of hatred for me and Lao Ma when we don’t meet when we are not married,"

"Haha, you don't have to comfort me," Chief Yang laughed.

Perhaps as he said, he has tried his best, so he can accept, and can only accept such an unsatisfactory result.

After accepting this result, he seemed a little relaxed.

For him, it should not be the first time to face such a helpless moment.

Feng Yiping knew about one of them. That time, Semel went to Google to propose an acquisition, but Peppa and Brin, in order to vent their anger, and in order to avenge Yahoo's previous suppression of them, they smashed them severely.

"Do you know that the reason for paying attention to Ali, except that Mr. Sun suggested to me that I learned that Yiping you are very concerned about Jack and are ready to cooperate with him. This is also our determination. No matter how much the price is to be paid, we hope that The reason for working with Ali," Chief Yang said with a smile.

"Oh, that's the case," Lao Ma nodded, "Because the project Yiping is looking at must be a good project,"

"And with his joining, he will definitely make this good project even better," Chief Yang added.

Google, is a ready-made example.

"It's changing a bit quickly," Feng Yiping also touched his head, "How come it suddenly became a recognition meeting for me?"

"But, in that case, Chief, I am very optimistic about Yahoo Japan. Can you give me an investment opportunity?" He said with a smile.

Hehe, Softbank, Hehe, Sun Zhengyi, come and go without being indecent, can you trouble me, can I trouble you?

Chief Yang's smile stopped abruptly again, and he felt once again that there was really no way to have a good conversation.

"This one……,"

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"Jerry," seeing the three of them coming out of the meeting room with smiles on their faces, the people standing outside in twos and threes, immediately gathered around, and the Yahoo legal director, who looked a little anxious, immediately called Chief Yang.

It seemed that Feng Yiping and the three of them were very happy. This immediately made him feel very bad. He felt that this must be because Chief Yang did something beyond his authorization.

He may not matter, but he, the legal director of his peers, cannot explain to the company and the board of directors after returning.

Chief Yang shook his head at him.

Holden is overjoyed, oh, no success? That's good!

But why do you all seem to be in a good mood?

Chief Yang and Feng Yiping shook hands, "Then, goodbye,"

"Okay~www.wuxiaspot.com~ You go back to the hotel to rest first, and I will pick you up at the hotel in an hour and a half," said Lao Ma.

Just now, Lao Ma issued an invitation to Chief Yang to take him on a tour of Hangzhou, and Chief Yang readily agreed.

"Yiping, see you in the United States," Chief Yang said goodbye to Feng Yiping. He knew that Feng Yiping would fly to Hong Kong in the afternoon.

"See you in America,"

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Chief Yang, accompanied by Mr. Cai, was surrounded by a large group of people and walked outside the building. Feng Yiping saw that Lao Zhou had fallen to the back and looked bored. He caught up with him and patted him on the shoulder. "Hi, do you have time to talk?"

"Okay," Lao Zhou agreed readily.

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At this time, at the VIP exit of Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok International Airport, Jessica Alba just showed up accompanied by the staff. Suddenly, accompanied by dense "clicks", the reporters who were waiting for a long time flashed their cameras. It kept flashing, and then, many microphones passed over...