Chapter 734 Technical Support

Wang Yaojin is a soft girl with fair skin and round pearls. Her body is limp, and even her voice is soft, a little coquettish, just very attractive.

Zhou Buqi is very satisfied with her.

After I was done, I lay down on the bed for a while and wanted to take a shower.

It was found that Wang Yaojin next to her was covering her mouth and giggling.

Zhou Buqi was a little speechless, "As for it? Are you so happy?"

Wang Yaojin put down her phone, pursed her lips, and said with a smile, "Boss, Luo Qianli is jealous! She said that I want to treat guests to dinner tonight!"

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, "Did you tell her?"

"No, I didn't say I came to open a house. I said the boss took me to meet the city leaders, and she was sour and enviable."

"Well, the position of a secretary is very special, and being cautious in words and deeds comes first."

"Boss, I understand."

"Let's go and take a shower."

Went to the bathroom to take a shower, and there was a lot of rubbing of ears and temples. The round, white and tender body was very soft. Zhou Buqi was even more satisfied with her, but said: "I won't come, I have something to do in the afternoon."

"oh."

"By the way, is your salary enough?"

"It's okay, I can't save money."

"Didn't I give you a raise?"

When she came back from a business trip to Hangzhou last time, she got a salary increase, becoming the same level as Luo Qianli, with a salary of 7,000 yuan.

Wang Yaojin pouted and said, "I have to come to work after seven o'clock every day. I can only rent a house nearby. The monthly rent is more than 3,000 yuan. To be a secretary requires decent manners, high-end clothes and cosmetics, and If there is a taxi fare, it’s good enough to spend.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, buying clothes and high-end cosmetics is indeed a lot of money."

"Yes, you can't just go to work with your hair unkempt. Especially when you are out to entertain, you have to pay more attention to your attire."

"How about this, in addition to the monthly salary of 7,000 yuan, let's get an image subsidy of 30,000 yuan, and dress up exquisitely. You are right, it is not easy to be a secretary. When you go out, it represents the company's image."

"Ah!" Wang Yaojin screamed excitedly, "Boss, really?"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Is there any reason for this? We will take care of this matter this afternoon, and Ning Yaxian and Luo Qianli will also be involved."

"Boss, you are too kind!"

Wang Yaojin cheered for joy, opened her arms and threw herself into his arms, bouncing up and down with inexplicable excitement.

"Work hard!" Zhou Buqi pointed out again, "If you work well, you will not only get a salary increase in the future, but also have the opportunity to get stock options."

Wang Yaojin said crisply: "Thank you boss, I will work hard!"

...

In the living room of the suite, Ning Yaxian was waiting for the two people in the bedroom, checking emails on her laptop.

When the door opened, she turned her head quickly, and sure enough, she saw Wang Yaojin's delicate and ruddy face, and Boss Zhou's refreshed demeanor.

"Boss, here is an important email."

"Yeah?"

Zhou Buqi's shirt hadn't been buttoned up yet, and his chest was open, so he walked over while buttoning it up.

Ning Yaxian said: "It's an email from President Ma."

"Old horse?"

"No, another President Ma."

"he?"

Zhou Buqi is quite strange.

The two didn't communicate too much, and there was no exchange of emails. A few days ago, Ziweixing announced the success of the A round of financing and received a congratulatory text message from the other party. In the text message, it seems that there is something to discuss.

Zhou Buqi couldn't help asking: "Is it poaching?"

Ning Yaxian shook her head lightly, "No, she wants to cooperate with us."

"cooperate?"

Zhou Buqi was even more curious. He cheated them out of 300 million just now, and yet he was still in the mood to cooperate. I walked over to read the mail and couldn't help being secretly surprised.

It turned out to be cooperation in the search business!

Penguin's search business, called Soso, has had a very poor market share since its release. Especially after Weidian went online, Soso's share fell to the bottom, only about 1%, ranking fifth behind Baidu, Weidian, Google and Yahoo.

And the statement in the email is even more surprising.

Penguin wants to completely abandon the original Soso business and retain the brand. Then cooperate with Ziweixing and switch to Weidian's search engine!

In other words, they only want to keep the brand "Soso", and the technical support behind it is provided by Weidian.

This is tantamount to completely abandoning the original search department.

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised by this, so he couldn't reply directly, so he went back to the company and talked to Wang Xiaochuan about it.

After hearing this, Wang Xiaochuan was also very surprised, "Are you looking for us to cooperate? They say they want to cooperate with Google! This has been rumored for several months."

Zhou Buqi asked, "What's going on?"

Wang Xiaochuan said: "Soso was launched in 2005, officially launched in 2006, and then operated in the market. At that time, the search market was dominated by Baidu, Google, and Yahoo. In order to survive in this fierce competition, Soso chose It’s a very different route.”

"oh?"

"They claim to build a purely green commercial platform. Well, there are no unhealthy things, and no advertisements will be added to the search results."

"Well, this product concept is very high."

"Yeah, everyone in the industry has said it, Baidu's technology, Penguin's products, Ali's marketing, Ziweixing's young people. Penguin does have a set of products. But search is a technical job, and product design alone is far from enough. Not enough. Soso’s use effect is very poor, let alone compared with Baidu, Google, Yahoo, even Sogou, Aiwen, Youdao.”

Zhou Buqi took it seriously, "Yes, technology is the primary productive force. They can't make their own search engine, so they want to get technical support from others?"

Wang Xiaochuan said: "Yes, it has spread widely in the industry. Soso is promoting a zero-advertising green search platform. I thought it was to use the free model to quickly gain users. But the result is the opposite. Almost all of Soso's traffic is provided internally and For external procurement, the user’s subjectivity is not strong. This is a typical thankless effort. The money is not earned, and so much money is invested in operations and marketing every year, and the share has not increased. It proves that in the past year or so The strategy is wrong and needs to be changed.”

Zhou Buqi understood now, "To change the strategy, we need to re-develop our own search technology, which will take a long time. During this period, if Soso wants to continue to cultivate this brand, it can only seek technical support through external cooperation. .”

Wang Xiaochuan smiled, "Yes, that's about it. Baidu, Weidian and Google are the three major search giants in China. They all have a complete ecological structure and an independent advertising alliance. Soso's next strategy must be the same Let’s go. By cooperating with external companies, we will first learn the business model and accumulate operational experience. After the successful development of our own engine, we can successfully replace it.”

"You said they chose Google as the partner at the beginning?"

"Yes, it seems that I contacted you in April. It's not surprising. In the past two years, Soso has been criticized most for its poor technology and too biased search results. We can use Google's powerful search technology to reverse the market image."

"It makes sense." Zhou Buqi nodded, "It's strange, but we found Weidian. We just cheated them with 300 million yuan, and we don't hold grudges?"

Wang Xiaochuan said with a smile: "Maybe because of the 300 million yuan, they realized that Ziweixing's technology is also very powerful. And in terms of search experience, Weidian is more in line with Chinese people's usage habits than Google."

In terms of search technology, of course Google is better.

But in terms of products, Micropoint is stronger.

As long as the technology is not too poor like Soso, even for search engines, product experience is an important measure. The market share of Baidu and Micropoint is higher than that of Google, which is because they have worked hard on products.

One of the most intuitive performance is simple search.

When low-end and middle-end users use search engines, most of them conduct simple searches, such as "how to make egg fried rice?", "how to name it with the horoscope of birthday?", "how to travel to the capital?"

In this aspect with obvious localization, domestic products are better than imported ones, whether it is Google, Yahoo or Microsoft, all of them will not work.

No matter what Soso does, it is impossible to compete with Google for that part of the high-end user market.

It can only take a share in the low-end user market.

In the previous life, Soso was looking for Google to cooperate.

There is no way, Baidu is the leader in the industry, and it is impossible to cooperate. For several other search platforms, Yahoo is owned by Ali, and the two sides are fighting fiercely in the field of e-commerce, so it is impossible to cooperate. Live Search belongs to Microsoft, and the field of social software is competing and cannot cooperate. As for search engines such as Sogou, Aiwen, and Youdao... Penguin does not think that they are better than itself, and the businesses of these companies are not perfect.

The only option, is Google.

This life is different, there is a little more.

Some time ago, Penguin contacted Google because they thought the micro-dot technology was mediocre. Moreover, there is also a strong competitive relationship between Qzone and Friends.com, and the possibility of cooperation is very low.

But what happened in May, there have been some changes.

Ziweixing sold the open platform of Youyou.com! Also sold this product to Qzone!

This is enough to illustrate two things.

First, Ziweixing's technology is very strong.

Second, even if it is a competitor, Ziweixing is different from other companies, it is not the kind of non-contact style. Even in the face of strong competition, cooperation is possible.

Friends.com has sold the open platform to Qzone, so it can do such a serious act of endorsing the enemy, and there will be no obstacles in providing search technical support for Soso.

Zhou Buqi pondered for a while, and said slowly: "Actually, Weidian has another great advantage, which is stability."

"Yes! Stable!" This immediately reminded Wang Xiaochuan, which made him a little embarrassed, and he felt that the country was pulling aside, "Last month, Google's server was not stable and was restricted by the authorities. Google's search results have always been more problematic."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "So, they really want to cooperate with us?"

"I think it is!"

"Then do you think you should provide them with technical support?"