Chapter 2078 New Proposal

In front of the somewhat excited Feng Yiping, Schmidt has found it difficult to maintain his original confidence.

Although his relationship with Feng Yiping is not close, compared with Page and Brin who are not easy to talk to, Feng Yiping has always been easy to communicate with.

Before this, Feng Yiping has also eased the relationship between him and the two founders many times.

This side of Feng Yiping presented today was the first time he saw it.

Feng Yiping's continuous questions forced him to seriously think about a question, am I really too optimistic and too self-evident?

At this time, Brin whispered to Page, "Do you think Feng has been assimilated by us now?"

Page nodded repeatedly. Feng Yiping's aggressive and pressing appearance is more and more like the style of Google people in the original meeting.

So, don't expect these two guys to help the two who are arguing to ease the current tense atmosphere. To be honest, they all hope that the atmosphere will be more tense.

As Google's business expanded and its employees increased, the ruthless, quarrelsome and aggressive meeting style had to be phased out, but to be honest, they still missed it.

"Feng, drink some water first," Schmidt did not answer Feng Yiping's question. He stood up and helped Feng Yiping get a bottle of water.

He needed more time to organize his words.

"Thank you," Feng Yiping took the soft ladder.

He didn't want to make the relationship with Schmidt too stiff.

The relationship between Google's senior executives was not very harmonious, so it was better for him not to follow the trend in such things.

"Sorry, I'm a little excited," he said.

"It's okay, you should actually take a break first," Schmidt said quickly, "Flying for more than ten hours in a row, and with your personality, most of these ten hours must have been spent working, which is too hard,"

Well, Brin looked at Page helplessly, there was no good show to watch.

But they were also somewhat relieved that at least two of the four most important people in the company could be so restrained, which was undoubtedly a good thing.

"Feng, I admit that what you said makes sense. I may have taken it for granted, but this is what I think. In any case, if we can acquire Baidu, it will always be beneficial to us. So I think that as long as it is possible, whether it succeeds or not, it is still okay to try. What do you think?"

At this time, his tone was much gentler, and it was far different from his previous rich and powerful appearance.

"If we can acquire it, it will naturally be very beneficial to us. Of course, I agree with this," Feng Yiping nodded, "but I still have a worry. Think about when Semel came to us to make an offer, at least I regarded his offer as a joke,"

"So I am a little worried that talking about the acquisition with them at this time will leave the same impression on them,"

As for the possible opposition of the government, he did not mention it.

First, mentioning that possibility can only make the other three present have a bad impression of our government.

Second, in fact, in many aspects, our government is actually more open-minded than we thought in relevant aspects.

As we all know, our country's telecommunications companies were split from the original Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Whether it was the original Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications or the telecommunications companies in the early stages of development, many of the equipment and software we purchased were purely imported.

As long as Wolf Factory agrees to be acquired by Google, Feng Yiping believes that there will still be many workarounds, such as, most importantly, complying with domestic laws and regulations, and storing relevant data in China.

That is to say, except for Feng Yiping's and Lao Ma's company that merged with him, the largest shareholders of domestic Internet companies, including Wolf Factory, are foreign capital.

The largest shareholder of Wolf Factory is the famous venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Page spoke, "I think Feng's concerns are reasonable. Robin should not choose to sell his company at this time."

"If we quote him at this time, it is indeed possible to leave him with a negative impression of arrogance,"

Brin said, "Then this may affect the image of our company."

He remembered very clearly that when Semel brought a group of Yahoo people to the door to quote, and according to his and Page's wishes, he raised the price again and again, he felt that it was really a very stupid behavior.

It was probably from that time that he lost his awe of Yahoo.

"Everyone's concerns are indeed reasonable, but I still stick to my own views. I think it is necessary to give it a try in the face of the benefits brought by the acquisition. So, how about this, I will contact Robin in my personal capacity and emphasize that all this is because of my personal opinion, and see his reaction?"

"I think it's okay, Feng, what do you think?" Page asked.

"I have no objection," Feng Yiping also felt that there was no need to object.

Although there is an ambition to make some achievements, Schmidt's starting point is indeed to consider Google.

"That's it," Page finally decided.

"Then I think I have to make this meeting as soon as possible," Schmidt said with a smile.

He turned on his computer, "Feng, do you think you need to take a break now?"

Is there any agenda? "No, I'm very energetic now," Feng Yiping said.

"Next, what I want to talk about is another acquisition, which is also related to our China business,"

"We all know that in August last year, Baidu acquired an online navigation website, this one," he said, pointing to the screen on the wall of the conference room.

Feng Yiping was very familiar with that website, hao123.

"Now it seems that this is a very good decision. This website has brought them a lot of traffic and made many people accustomed to using their search."

"Fortunately, there are still good choices in China. I have compared them, and 2 is a good choice."

Sorry, this is the first time Feng Yiping has heard of this.

"Wait a minute," Page and the others paid little attention to this aspect before. He and Brin quickly clicked on the two URLs, but after looking at them for a while, they said with some confusion, "This website doesn't seem to have any technology. content?"

"That's true." Feng Yiping took a brief look at the document prepared by Schmidt and explained based on his own understanding. "We all know that in the past two years, the number of Internet users in China has grown rapidly, and there are more and more people. More people are starting to go online,”

"This includes some Internet users who are too old to remember the website address, and some Internet users who are not very educated. Of course, the main force is young people who are too lazy to enter the website address, so such a website does have high technical content. It’s not high, but it’s good because it’s easy to use and can effectively save time.”

"Feng's analysis is right." Schmidt had no objection to Feng Yiping's words. He knew very well. Page and Brin were more likely to accept the same words after Feng Yiping said it.

"The most important thing is the search box on this website. This is a powerful tool to expand our visibility and increase user stickiness,"

"Baidu's success also strongly proves this point. According to the data I collected, search requests from this website have accounted for at least 10% of Baidu's search volume,"

Page and others were dumbfounded, "That means it exceeds 7% of China's search share?"

"What was their purchase price last year?" Brin asked.

Schmidt flipped it down a few times, "50 million yuan in cash, plus an unknown number of stocks,"

"Given that the influence of 265 is not as good as that of hao123, I think we should be able to acquire this website for about US$10 million," Schmidt said excitedly.

"Feng, what do you think? You are the most familiar with the situation in China." As expected, Page started asking Feng Yiping for his opinion again.

For Google today, an acquisition of US$10 million is really nothing. If it spends US$10 million, it can occupy even a few points of China's search market share, for example, half of the 7 points, or less. , 2 points, that’s a good deal.

"In China, there is no doubt that such a website can indeed bring us many users," Feng Yiping said.

"But if 265 can greatly improve our search business like 123, I'm not sure."

"There are mainly several reasons. First of all, according to my impression, the promotion of hao123 has a lot to do with Internet cafes in China. The information prepared by Schmidt confirms this. The founder of hao123 used to be an Internet cafe. Administrator, maybe because of this, in many Internet cafes in our country, the website hao123 is forcibly promoted as a preset page at startup,"

"This allows many netizens to come into contact with this website when they first go online. They are used to this website. 265 does not have such an advantage."

"Secondly, after the acquisition, the promotion of hao123 is often, how should I say, a bit like a rogue software. After you download and install a software online, you may find that your homepage has been unknowingly changed to hao123,”

To be honest, as far as Feng Yiping is concerned, for a long time, he treated 123 as a rogue software. Every time he changed the homepage back, it was annoying to death, and it would be tampered with if he was not careful. It was really Too annoying.

Page frowned. Naturally, he wouldn't like this approach.

"Another point is that according to our domestic user habits, many of the people who search with us have a background of studying abroad, and they may not need such a navigation website,"

Feng Yiping doesn't want to say this, but there are indeed many people in China who use similar habits to flaunt their uniqueness, such as using Google instead of Du Niang, using MSN instead of Penguin...

Of course, as a search service provider, you must cater to the habits of users. For these users, if you assign them a navigation website, it is likely to arouse their disgust.

It's roughly equivalent to opening a fried dough stick stall with heavy pyrotechnics in their high-end residential area, which would affect their mood too much.

"However, I have to admit that Schmidt has found a good direction. If it works well, this will indeed be a big boost to our search business,"

Schmidt was very happy. In short, Feng Yiping expressed his affirmation, at least more than he agreed with his last proposal.

"We also need to consider another aspect. Such a website can also effectively promote our other products," Feng Yiping added.

"So, strategically, it seems feasible," Page said.

"The problem is at the implementation level," Breen said.

"In any case, we will naturally not use bundling to promote such a website," Schmidt said, "but such a product will undoubtedly meet the needs of some users and allow some users to access our search, and it is also a profitable website in itself,"

"So I think this proposal is worth considering," Page said something that made Schmidt happy, and looked at Feng Yiping again, "but in the end, it should be decided by the Chinese company,"

"Yes, I also think that colleagues from Chinese companies have the most say," Feng Yiping said.

Schmidt did not hesitate, "I agree,"

He believed that he could make the Chinese company accept his proposal.

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"Feng," Feng Yiping, who had finished the meeting, walked out, and Schmidt followed him, "Just now, thank you,"

"You're welcome, that's what I should do," Feng Yiping stopped.

Schmidt does have more thoughts than Page and others, but objectively speaking, he does have his difficulties, and he is indeed very attentive to Google.

That was enough. Schmidt happily accompanied Feng Yiping for a walk. "You should stay for a few days this time. If there is a chance, we can go to sea together."

"No problem, but I have to go back to rest now."

"Haha, it's time to go back. Let's make another appointment," Schmidt smiled and patted Feng Yiping on the back.

He didn't even come to see me? Mayer, standing in front of the office window, looked over here.

Seeing Feng Yiping walking out, she hurriedly called, "Hello,"

"Wait for me on the roadside first," Mayer said.

Feng Yiping looked at the time. It was only two o'clock. The two children and their mother were not at home. Perhaps, it could be used?