Chapter 899: The Course of History

DeLay was ecstatic when he got the news, and he immediately planned to delay the real estate transaction until after YAHOO went public, so that both bidders would have sufficient ammunition.

"There are risks."

In his office of the president of the American music website, Alicia reminded: "YAHOO's current headquarters is very small, and they can easily move. It's clear that Kirsch has malicious intentions. What do you think, APLUS?"

Song Ya was sitting on the president's office chair at this time, resting her chin on one hand, concentrating on browsing the web on Delay's HP computer. Yesterday, I chatted with Mark Anderson at the dinner party at Jim Clark’s house, and mentioned the competition between Yahoo and Infoseek. According to Mark Anderson, in January last year, Netscape internally started to choose which default search bar service In a heated debate, Mark Anderson actually supported YAHOO at the time, while Jim Clark favored his old friend Kirsch's Infoseek.

At that time... I seemed to be overwhelmed by a series of troubles such as the death of Sinaloa, the killing of the FBI inspector by Vic, the death of Little Lowry, etc. Jimmy usually attended the meeting on his behalf, and he followed his orders , firmly followed Jim Clark...

So... Infoseek narrowly won the internal debate at the meeting.

This was a very small matter for Netscape, which was not so powerful at that time, they did not inform themselves later, and Jimmy did not report it, but in view of the huge prestige, appeal and high market value of the Netscape browser in the Internet world today, market share, as well as the soaring skyrocketing of the Internet industry as a whole, the influence of my butterfly wings is not small...

'Click click...'

The mouse switches between the homepages of YAHOO and Infoseek. Both sides have made great progress compared to before, but for me, YAHOO has a stronger sense of familiarity in all aspects, and the search engine is also more convenient. They seem to be in harmony with Reuters. A cooperation has been reached, and the quality of the news section on the homepage is very high, far away from Infoseek.

Netscape didn’t stop showing YAHOO at all, Song Ya clicked on the list of search tools, Infoseek was only the default engine, other well-known search engines such as Excite, etc. could be used, and YAHOO was the last one in the drop-down menu.

Just like that, according to YAHOO's prospectus, they have already achieved the second and third place in the industry in terms of market share. Song Ya opened Microsoft's IE again. This time YAHOO is the default engine, and AOL, the largest network access provider login page, well, there's nothing there.

So based on my instinctive vague perception of the future, YAHOO's development will definitely be better than Infoseek, but how much better? As a time traveler, I seem to have changed something unknowingly,

For example, the default search engine of Netscape browser...

Will history still stubbornly reverse the offset course and continue to advance along the original route?

If not, does the inherent impression I perceive from the future still work? Will it be taken into the ditch instead?

This is a big problem, and Song Ya couldn't help but start thinking.

"APLUS?" But Alicia immediately 'woke up' him.

"What?" Song Ya threw away the keyboard and mouse.

DeLay repeated the conversation he had with Alicia just now, and asked, "What do you think? I don't think YAHOO will back down from Kirsch and move the headquarters. I have fought several times with YAHOO founder Jerry Yang When we met for the first time, he didn’t feel like a Chinese, but a little more like a slightly more honest 3DFX trio, with passionate and provocative speech, and a flamboyant personality, it’s hard for him to bow his head easily.”

"What do you mean you don't look like a Chinese American? Stereotype Oh Delay."

Song Ya laughed and made fun of his language disorder. In fact, he came to Dilai to try to meet with YAHOO executives, especially one of the founders, Jerry Yang of Chinese descent, but what happened before the IPO? I have also experienced that Jerry Yang and the others have all gone to Wall Street in New York. Now they should be so busy day and night that they have no time at all.

"In short, you are the president here, so you can do as you see fit. My attitude...Compared with Infoseek, I am actually more optimistic about the future of YAHOO. Maybe you can use their IPO opportunity to replace some of their stocks with land , or put our music website link in a suitable place on their homepage that you like?" He suggested to Delay.

"What about Kirsch? If Infoseek also matches your requirements..."

Delay was a little hesitant, "You must know that Infoseek is an ally of Netscape and the industry leader with the largest market share of search engines. Based on your relationship with Netscape..."

"Well, business is business Delay, treat them equally, let's see what they ask for."

I still have 2.6% of my Netscape shares left, which is worth as much as 300 million based on yesterday's closing price of nearly 150 knives. If you want to reduce your holdings, then Jim Clark will inevitably find financial guests to attack him to appease the concerns of shareholders.

"OK." Delay was very satisfied with the delegation of authority by the boss.

"Is it my turn?" Alicia walked to the side and put a document on the desk, "Signed it? This is the acquisition authorization for Louise's report by the American music website."

"Left hand to right hand ah?"

Song Ya took the pen and signed it. It was indeed left-handed and right-handed. The difference was that Louise reported that it was wholly owned by her own A+ copyright and asset management, and A+ Audio, the parent company of the American music website, did not completely belong to her. , the shareholder also has Dilai.

"Maybe after a while, you will also accept the American Music Magazine? Then I won't have to pay the one million a year, and the American Music website will be more legitimate." Song Ya joked with Di Lai.

"Can you replace that editor-in-chief Shirley Fleming?" Delay was also happy.

"no."

"forget about it."

"Ha ha."

The two laughed together. The old man Shirley Fleming's contacts in the music circle are very useful. At least her years of friendship with those classical musicians cannot be replaced by anyone. Song Ya has no idea of ​​​​removing her yet.

"Where is Rick Rubin?" Alicia asked.

"I will take the opportunity of attending the Oscars to talk to him in Los Angeles. I hope he will not be impulsive."

The affairs of Silicon Valley are almost done, and I signed a supplementary agreement with Netscape before, and I have to fulfill some pre-announcement obligations before transferring shares to Picower's company. Song Ya raised her wrist to look at her watch and yawned, "I'm a little tired, let's stop here today, I'm going back to the hotel to rest."

"Come on, I've already made reservations for the best restaurant in Sunnyvale. DTS boss Terry Beard and Palm's Jeffrey Hawkins will come and have dinner together." Delay hurriedly kept people.

"Is there any business?" Song Ya felt Alicia's shoe tip stepping on her instep quietly.

"Jeffrey Hawkins should have, but he won't tell me."

Delay replied, "Of course Terry Beard wanted to talk to you about the Blade project. A+ Film Studios will still use DTS's surround sound technology, right?"

Song Ya got up and patted Dilai's arm, "Anyway, I'll go back to the hotel and wait, call me at dinner, I may have to come later."

"That's good." Di Lai had no doubts about him, "Both of them are busy people, so I guess they won't arrive early."

"Yeah." Song Ya lifted her foot and walked out.

"Oh, by the way, Mrs. Flock, A+ Audio's synthetic sound copyright library still has some new contracts to review." Delay stopped Alicia who followed him out.

"Uh... alright."

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