Chapter 1926 Returning the Pearl to the King

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

An extra promise? And judging from his serious look, this should be a very important promise.

Feng Yiping was quite curious about this kind of thing that had never happened before.

He glanced at Lao Ma and found that Lao Ma just looked over. Not to mention, 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, and Chief Yang is a person who will definitely leave a mark in world history. It is indeed a proud thing to want to invest in the company he founded.

But after Chief Yang said this, he was silent for a long time.

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 see what was written on it for a while.

Feng Yiping can be sure that this is not a suspense.

Because from the perspective of time, it won't take so long to suspense.

This should be just Chief Yang's solemnity, or in other words, although he appeared very determined, he was actually struggling now, which further proved that the additional promise he was about to make was a big deal.

Lao Ma came over and whispered to Feng Yiping, "Yiping, look..." He gestured to the opposite side.

Feng Yiping nodded.

Lao Ma then coughed lightly and said, "Jerry, we are very grateful for your attention to our company and are really touched by your persistence, but the situation is like this. From all aspects, we really don't need to introduce other investments,"

"So we really don't want you to be embarrassed, okay? It's a rare trip for you, and then..."

Chief Yang raised his head at this time, "I can make an additional promise that Yahoo's related patents, core technologies in email and instant messaging, and," he paused for a moment, "including core technologies in search, will all be open to you,"

Lao Ma, who was speaking, was stunned, and Feng Yiping was also stunned.

No wonder Chief Yang was so solemn.

Because what Chief Yang said is not easy to measure with money. What he said is the most core asset for any company.

A well-known high-tech company like Yahoo must be more than just famous. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Microsoft to spend more than 40 billion US dollars to acquire it when it was obviously in decline, and the premium seems to be more than 50%.

Microsoft, which is very smart, will not joke about tens of billions of dollars. What they value, in addition to Yahoo's successful investment in China and Japan, is the core assets that Chief Yang mentioned.

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 recent years, which will obviously make their patent library bigger and bigger (historically, before the stocks of Alibaba and Yahoo Japan were finally stripped off and the shameful acquisition was less than 5 billion US dollars, just like many domestic A-share companies later sold one house this quarter and one house next quarter in order to make the financial statements look good, Yahoo also sold many patents to the outside world for financial statements, and 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 led to its failure to go public, and it finally had to spend a huge amount 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's acquisition of Yahoo was also due to this consideration. In the United States, the combined search share of it and Yahoo is still not as high as Google, but it is enough to compete with Google.

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

The same is true for instant messaging. Now in China, apart from Penguin and Microsoft's MSN, Yahoo ranks third.

Feng Yiping glanced at Lao Ma. Lao Ma chose to cooperate with Yahoo at that time, and it was not without this consideration, because e-commerce has never been inseparable from search.

The essence of search is massive. From this perspective, whether it is Jiasheng Mall or a company like Taobao, although they have not set up a special search department and launched a special search tool, in fact, the entire company is doing search.

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

This made him temporarily put aside the series of troubles caused by his promise. Now, he is more and more convinced that as long as this matter is made, no matter how much trouble he has, it must be worth it.

"We all know that e-commerce cannot do without search, and Yahoo is in the field of vertical search, which has a lot of advantages," he further explained.

There is still a big difference between search and vertical search, that is, general search and vertical search. We can roughly say that vertical search is a search developed on the basis of general search.

General search provides you with a lot of content, while vertical search provides you with specialized and refined 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 "autumn trousers" on Baidu and "searching" for autumn trousers on Taobao.

Naturally, the latter is more useful.

In other words, vertical search technology is very useful for e-commerce.

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

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

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

"Neither of us understands technology, but before the merger, our engineers have come to a conclusion on this issue. Mainly because of three reasons, 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 it should be these three aspects, because of the dynamic nature of the content, the complexity of the content, and the massive transaction data that will be faced in the future," Feng Yiping added, "So they believe that there must be an e-commerce search that is more suitable for us. Of course, our two companies have been doing this work before,"

"To be honest, because we don't understand technology, we don't understand the difference and necessity in this regard. Chief, you are a master in technology, I believe you can see the difference here,"

In fact, he and Lao Ma didn't understand it at the beginning, but now they have already understood it. The engineers of the two companies will naturally find a way to explain these differences to the boss.

Chief Yang thought about it for a while and understood it a little.

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

Complexity is also easy to understand. For example, the same computer may have many different names in different merchants' stores.

Massive transaction data should not refer to large transaction volume, but mainly refers to the fact that there are thousands of individuals who are driven by interests around the e-commerce platform. Every decision made by an affected e-commerce platform may be magnified or distorted by the market...

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

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

After saying this, how could he not understand that Feng Yiping and Lao Ma really had no interest in cooperating with Yahoo?

"Jerry, I think if neither I nor Yiping had confirmed that we would cooperate, then for us, cooperating with Yahoo is our best choice and our honor," Lao Ma said.

This is similar to giving a good guy card to comfort.

To be honest, he may not need it, but Chief Yang's current appearance does look quite sympathetic.

"Yes, Chief, to be honest, I think Lao Ma and I didn't think that our e-commerce project would have the opportunity to cooperate with a well-known company like Yahoo, but now we have merged and found the direction," Feng Yiping said.

"To make an inappropriate analogy, Yahoo is a bit like what we regret not meeting before we got married to each other for me and Lao Ma,"

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

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

After accepting such a result, he seems to feel a little relieved.

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

Feng Yiping knows one of them. That time Semel went to Google to propose an acquisition, but Page and Brin, in order to vent their anger and to retaliate against Yahoo's previous suppression of them, severely fooled them.

"Do you know that the reason why we pay attention to Alibaba is that in addition to Mr. Sun's suggestion to me, we learned that you, Yiping, pay close attention to Jack and are ready to cooperate with him. This is also the reason why we are determined to cooperate with Alibaba no matter how much it costs," Chief Yang said with a smile.

"Oh, I see," Lao Ma nodded, "Because the project that Yiping is interested in must be a good project,"

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

Google is a ready-made example.

"It's changing a bit fast," Feng Yiping also touched his head, "Why did it suddenly become a praise meeting for me?"

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

Hum, Softbank, hum, Masayoshi Son, it's not polite to come and go, you can cause me trouble, so I can't cause you trouble?

Chief Yang's laughter stopped again, and he once again felt that this really couldn't have a good chat.

"This..."

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"Jerry," seeing the three of them coming out of the conference room with smiles on their faces, the people standing outside in groups of three or two immediately surrounded them, and the Yahoo legal director, who looked a little anxious, immediately called Chief Yang.

It seemed that Feng Yiping and the other three were very happy, which immediately made him feel very bad. He felt that this must be because Chief Yang had done something beyond his authorization.

He might not care, but as a legal director in the same field, he would not be able to explain to the company and the board of directors when he returned.

Chief Yang shook his head at him.

Horton was happy, oh, no success? That's good!

But why do you all look in a good mood?

Chief Yang shook hands with Feng Yiping and the others, "Well, goodbye,"

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

Just now, Lao Ma invited 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 President Cai, was surrounded by a large group of people and walked out of the building. Feng Yiping saw that Lao Zhou was at the back and looked a little bored. He rushed over and patted his shoulder, "Hey, do you have time to chat?"

"Sure," Lao Zhou agreed readily.

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At this time, at the VIP exit of Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok International Airport, Jessica Alba appeared accompanied by staff. Suddenly, accompanied by dense "clicks", the flashlights of the cameras of the reporters who had been waiting for a long time flashed non-stop, and then many microphones were handed over...