Chapter 295 Internet Input Method

It is obviously unrealistic to put Google and Baidu side by side.

Google's advertising revenue this year can reach 6 billion US dollars, which can be compared with traditional media giants such as Viacom, Comcast, and Time Warner.

Baidu's advertising fee is more than 30 million US dollars.

However, in the domestic market, Baidu has an absolute leadership.

The profit method of the search business is advertising. Baidu has more than 80,000 advertisers, and the two parties are directly connected without middlemen. This is a huge potential.

Yahoo China, which was acquired by Ali, has more than 40,000 advertisers, and only some major client advertisers are directly connected. Most of the small advertisers are connected through advertising intermediary platforms like Jieyu Media.

Google has just entered the domestic market, and the first thing to develop is naturally the search business. It must open up advertiser channels and build a Google advertising alliance.

This task is too difficult.

Baidu has already dominated the market, creating a head effect.

As the newly appointed president, Zhou Shaoning's pressure can be imagined.

The matter of the domain name can be solved in a few words.

Cai Wensheng apologized, saying that he wanted to give Zhou Buqi away for free, but he refused and promised to contribute 200,000 yuan. There is no need to waste favors for a domain name.

Next, the conversation turned to Google.

"By the way, are you cooperating with Microsoft?" Zhou Shaoning looked strange.

Zhou Buqi shook his head and said, "I cooperate with Microsoft mainly because I want to use MSN's customer resources to develop Moments. As for the search business, to be honest, Microsoft's Live search is so bad that I want to jump out of the contract."

Zhou Shaoning said with a smile: "Yes, Google will provide you with search services!"

"It's too complicated!" Zhou Buqi sighed, the cost of breaching the contract is too high, and in the current situation, Microsoft has a greater role in Friends.com.

"Is there a way around it?"

Zhou Shaoning obviously didn't want to give up such a client, from Xiaonei.com, to Friends.com, and to Weidian Security Guard, who has been extremely popular in the circle recently. I don't know what new tricks he can play in a while.

"I don't think about Microsoft's affairs." Zhou Buqi shook his head. It is impossible to bypass such a large company's contract. "However, we might as well cooperate in other fields."

Zhou Shaoning was a little disappointed, "Google has just entered the country, and the first thing it does is search business."

"Coincidentally, what I said is also related to search."

"Um?"

"Old Zhou, have you paid attention to the input method?"

"You want to make a Chinese input method?" Zhou Shaoning immediately understood what he meant.

Zhou Buqi said: "That's exactly what I mean. The Wubi input method is too old-fashioned, and I can't memorize the formulas alone. Except for professional typists and bank counters, more people use the pinyin input method. As a college student, every The first time I use a computer to write an article, it is very painful. The existing pinyin input method has a high error rate, which seriously affects typing efficiency."

Cai Wensheng, who was listening, added, "If I remember correctly, the most popular pinyin input methods should be Smart ABC and Ziguang Pinyin."

Zhou Buqi smiled, "That's right, Smart ABC is a product of Microsoft."

Zhou Shaoning didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Xiao Zhou, you may have misunderstood. It is true that Microsoft and Google are competing, but this does not mean that Google is going to compete for every piece of Microsoft's business territory. Google is a new Internet company. It is not as deep as Microsoft, and can cover any corner of computer applications."

Zhou Buqi insisted: "The input method is the entrance of computer applications, and it must be done. For college students, an input method that meets their typing habits is just needed."

"What does this have to do with search?"

"I want to make an input method that fits with the search engine."

"What's the meaning?"

Zhou Shaoning and Cai Wensheng looked at each other, unable to understand.

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Let's just talk about the domain name just now, qiuzhi, what is the pinyin understanding? Job hunting, seeking knowledge, seeking value, Qiuzhi, seeking treatment, Qiuzhi, etc. Uh...you know what words I'm talking about Right? It doesn’t matter, you must understand what I mean. With so many words, when arranging them, which words come first and which words come after? This is very particular.”

Zhou Shaoning looked at him strangely, "Is this important? My secretary also uses the pinyin input method, and can even type by touch. She has memorized the entire sequence of words."

"That's a minority after all. Most people need to look for them one by one. This is too cumbersome."

"What are you going to do?"

"Integrate with search engines." Zhou Buqi is calm and steady, "When users use Google search, they will definitely leave a lot of search data. For example, they searched for 'job' 1 million times, 800,000 times' Seeking knowledge', when sorting input methods, put 'job seeking' in front of 'seeking knowledge'. If the search volume of 'seeking knowledge' exceeds that of job seeking one day, the sorting must be advanced."

Cai Wensheng's eyes are sharp, "This is an Internet input method. The thesaurus is connected to the search engine and can be updated in real time. Compared with the traditional input method, some hot words can be added. For example, "Mouse Loves Rice", if you use the traditional input method It may take a long time to input this word, but if it is connected to a search engine, this word will enter the thesaurus and can be directly displayed to users.”

Zhou Buqi smiled, "That's almost what it means."

In fact, it is much more than that.

The ultimate goal of the input method must be to create an exclusive dictionary for each user. With the hot words provided by the search engine, it will be extremely comfortable to use.

At this moment in 2005, the two pinyin input methods with the highest market share were Smart ABC and Ziguang Pinyin, but the dark horse input method had the best reputation. The reason why the audience is small, because this is a paid software.

Compared with the 7M and 10M installation packages of other input methods, the installation package of the dark horse input method exceeds 300M.

The most fundamental reason is that the dark horse input method has a super large thesaurus, almost all of which include ancient poetry, place names, song names, medical terms, chemical terms, etc.

With such a large thesaurus package, the input accuracy rate is naturally high.

But the problem is that the input method needs to be turned on. Such a large file package and thesaurus package take up too much memory when running, and the computer with poor performance may freeze.

For ordinary people, there is no need for such a large thesaurus package.

Doctors, just download a doctor pack. Fans can download a song package, and programmers can download a computer-specific thesaurus package...

This is the product concept that the future input method should have.

But there is no need to tell them about these, so as not to copy ideas.

The most urgent task is to convince Zhou Shaoning to open a port for Google's search data. It doesn't need to be too detailed, just display the search times of all words.

Zhou Shaoning felt a little troubled, hesitantly said: "It's not easy for me to decide on this matter, I have to ask the headquarters for instructions."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Google is a great company. Hasn't it already developed an API service interface for global developers? It can't be like QQ, sticking to an acre of land. Openness is a company. The mind that a great company should have."

"Let me ask you later."

"Well, if it doesn't work, I can only find Microsoft to cooperate. Although I don't like Live Search, it's better than nothing."

Zhou Shaoning laughed and said: "You are going to seize the smart ABC market, will they cooperate with you?"

Zhou Buqi looked indifferent, "If it doesn't work, I'll go to Baidu. There are so many search engine platforms, and there are always partners who are willing to cooperate."

Zhou Shaoning had nothing to do with him, and said helplessly, "I have a request."

"Tell me?"

"Google search also has some installed plug-ins, Weidian security guards should be merciful, don't clean them up with one click. It is Google's philosophy to ensure that it is not a rogue plug-in and not to do evil."

"no problem!"

Zhou Buqi smiled with satisfaction.

After the security product is ready, the income may not be much, but it has gained the right to speak.

...

In the second half of the year, the mobile phone market became increasingly sluggish.

Even waveguide and backgammon are a little bit overwhelmed.

The world is full of foreign mobile phones.

Panda mobile phones have long since disappeared.

This is the offline pattern.

Online, Panda Mobile is the hottest brand!

Because of the group buying activity on Xiaonei.com, I chose Panda.

It's very simple, only the price is low.

On the first day of group buying, Shi Jinglin took out a dazzling performance report——

Panda X60 sold 12,000 units, Panda X39 sold 9,000 units, Panda T160 sold 16,000 units, Panda PHS008A+ sold 33,000 units, Panda M28 sold 8,000 units...

A total of 78,000 mobile phones were sold, with sales exceeding 60 million yuan!

So much so that at 11:30 that night, when everyone got off work, Shi Jinglin looked at Zhou Buqi with provocative eyes, as if she was stronger than you.

Zhou Buqi avoided the others and lowered his voice, "Why don't you go back to the dormitory and go to my house."

Shi Jinglin covered her chest with her hands, and stepped back quickly, a little flustered and annoyed, she didn't dare to shout loudly, and said in a low voice, "Is the fox's tail showing? It really is a scumbag! Don't hit my aunt." ! You can't afford it!"

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Why are you so careless? Wu Yu is here, if you want to go there, you can talk to her! Whether you want to go or not is inexplicable!"

After speaking, turn around and leave.

Shi Jinglin looked at him suspiciously, secretly took out her mobile phone, made a call, and confirmed it.

Then, he bit his lip and decided to go all out.

My villa has been taken over by his family, so what's wrong with staying there for one night?

right!

that's all!

As soon as his thoughts were clear, he saw that Zhou Buqi had already gone a long way, and his footsteps were fast, so he hurriedly shouted: "Zhou Buqi, slow down! I'm going to live at your place tonight!"

As soon as the words fell, there seemed to be sharp eyes, "shua, shua, shua" looked over.

All of them have joking expressions, half smiles but half smiles.

Shi Jinglin's face became hot, and she flushed suddenly, angrily said: "What are you looking at? Go back to rest quickly, and go to work on time at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning! If you are late, your salary will be deducted! It's inexplicable!"