Chapter 931: The Smoke of the Browser War

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Some things are tacit - although the U.S. military is unwilling to sell the decommissioned aircraft carrier to the richest man, the United States is sure to be happy to see him become the richest man to pack the Russian aircraft carrier, completely cutting off the opposing navy's desire to confront, anyway, the richest man bought Arriving at the aircraft carrier in Russia, it is like a child getting the Qinglong Yanyue Dao, and there is nothing to do.

More importantly, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier built in the Soviet era that the United States is really afraid of, and the third of the Kuznetsov class - the Ulyanovsk, has been built to 40% At that time, Ukraine, which was foolishly dismantled by it, used a simple double-reed play to make it so popular that it sold steel and iron.

On the other hand, the four aircraft carriers that Mr. Richest is now calling to pack the Russian Navy are all Kyiv-class, which is one level behind the Kuznetsov-class. For the powerful U.S. Navy, it is almost the same.

This is the general trend - with Mr. Richest's current strength and the load that his shoulders can resist, it can be said to operate with ease.

However, Tang Huan hoped that the hype from the media would be enough to reach the Aircraft Carrier Hotel - once the fire is under control, public opinion can be used by me; otherwise, it will only backfire and incite hatred.

After all, after 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, Russia, which has been tortured to death by "shock therapy", will basically go in another direction from love to hatred— It is unnecessary to blow too much now, and it will be easy to talk about it when the time comes.

Tang Huan's calm strategizing also includes leaving a way out for himself - he is just a benevolent businessman who will be admired by all parties and willing to associate with him!

In addition, after intuitively understanding the four aircraft carriers decommissioned by Russia this time, Tang Huan found that this kind of Kyiv-class aircraft carrier, which is positioned as an "aviation cruiser", can be played by himself-as long as it can appease the panic of Southeast Asian countries , Just send it to Funan Navy.

Based on these considerations, the richest man does not want the media, which is afraid of chaos, to irritate Russia, which is still in the negotiation period with him. Although those in power there are prone to public relations, they must also take into account their face.

Quickly dismissing the topic of packing up the Russian navy, Tang Huan turned to the movie "Titanic" to attract the media's attention, praising the help of Britain, Russia and other parties for this trip.

Speaking of this, it is officially recognized the existence of the "Titanic" project-James Cameron has quickly promoted from the level of directing a $100 million budget movie to the level of directing a $150 million budget movie .

The reporters were indeed distracted by Mr. Richest Man, and began to discuss "Titanic", such as who would be the hero and heroine of such a big production.

In fact, after Tang Huan came back this time, when he was dealing with housework and visiting the new Tang's son, he even asked his foreign girls who were interested in the heroine of "Titanic". However, due to the schedule, role positioning, workload, director James Cameron's reputation as a tyrant on the set, and other reasons, no one wants to get the moon first.

In this way, the casting of "Titanic" is really serious and businesslike.

However, although these specific matters are worthy of special mention for Hollywood and the media, in the eyes of Mr. Richest Man, who has already completed the layout, they are pediatrics. There are only three real major events before him this year—— —The Comdex Las Vegas Autumn Exhibition, which shows the fierce competition in the industry, the 2nd APEC Economic Leaders Meeting held in Bogor, Indonesia, and the economic trend of Mexico.

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Tang Huan couldn't help laughing at those new domain names that were registered in one go, with more numbers than his own sons, because there were also Yahoo——and Amazon—although business entities like these had been established, but because of commercial value and The prospects are still to be seen, and the domain name registered by myself has not been taken into account for the time being.

The dignified Mr. Richest Man, preemptively registering the domain names of the little shrimps is suspected of being unkind. In fact, he didn’t do it on purpose. People like Jeff Bezos are slow to move.

Tang Huan, who personally participates in at least one angel investment activity every quarter, is right under his nose—in a student apartment at Stanford University, a website information indexing service run by a computer running on the Internet—"jerry 's_guide_to_the_world_wide_web', or 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web', has long been known. Its founders, David Filo and Jerry Yang, who are still graduate students, belong to private work.

Just as Tang Huan predicted at last year's Comdex Las Vegas Autumn Exhibition, the number of World Wide Web sites this year has increased by more than ten times, reaching more than 10,000—following this trend, it will break through 10 next year. Ten thousand, it will be a matter of course.

The World Wide Web, which has no authorization fee, has such a surge in the number of websites, but it also inevitably brings confusion to Internet users - how do people find the part they are interested in amidst the information explosion?

It is estimated that the bosses of David Filo and Jerry Yang are so lenient that they have the leisure to sort out the indexes of these websites for other Internet users to use, and then stepped on the drumbeat of the times by chance. With the popularity, click The volume will exceed 1 million.

As a result, "Jerry's Guide to the Internet" was changed to the catchy "Yahoo", and an exclamation point was added to distinguish it from the registered trademark of existing products such as barbecue sauce and knives - "yahoo", It became "yahoo!", but just forgot to spend $100, to sign up "".

It has to be said that smart people often have secrets and sparseness.

It is not difficult to imagine that the current Yahoo, in terms of technology, does not have much technical content. It is a software "database" that can be customized and can update website index information at any time.

It is no exaggeration to say that for Yahoo, who is just showing up to Xiao He, and the richest man with too much capital, it doesn't matter whether he looks down on him or replaces him.

However, he still watched the little seedling quietly, growing naturally and instinctively. Gein, the great thing about Yahoo is that it inherently has a new viable operating model.

The richest man owns America Online, but America Online's model does not represent the entire Internet and the World Wide Web.

Although AOL's qualifications are not old compared with its competitors in the online service field, it is definitely no problem to be older than Yahoo. /ip began to form as a general protocol.

Due to the scarcity of resources in the era of Internet pioneering, the operation mode of such online services has been trying to provide all Internet access content by itself from the very beginning, and lease network lines on a large scale, or even build network lines by itself, becoming an Internet service provider. isp.

Compared with the "hard" model of America Online, which keeps visitors in circles, Yahoo represents a "soft" way, that is, because the Internet resources have begun to explode with information, the visitors have become at a loss, and provide The navigation function of the portal.

The main job of Yahoo is to set up servers, maintain its own "website database", and provide an attractive navigation page, which occupies the access point of the Internet with countless websites, without the need to lease lines and transfer access Users are in control of their own websites.

To put it bluntly, and even politically correct, Yahoo represents freedom and openness, and truly interprets the spiritual essence of the Internet.

Of course, this does not mean that AOL’s path is wrong, and Yahoo’s path is correct—different stages of the Internet have resulted in different path choices and operational characteristics. If you copy it mechanically, it can only be a dead end.

What's more, America Online still represents the mainstream at this stage—Yahoo's website navigation directory front row must have its place.

Under Tang Huan's guidance, AOL embraced the World Wide Web many times faster than its online service competitors, and it can be said that its path has always been "correct".

However, it is impossible to make AOL more "correct" and switch to the portal website model. Not to mention that the portal website model has just emerged, and it is impossible to give up the existing content resources of AOL. "Correct" has penetrated into his genes, and he can only fine-tune his navigation direction with the development of the Internet.

In this case, the value of the extremely new and tender Yahoo to the richest man is reflected-it can not only satisfy the layout of not putting eggs in one basket, but also greatly reduce the cost of mastering the portal model.

As for the value of David Filo and Jerry Yang, they are similar to James Cameron who filmed "Titanic" in a down-to-earth manner. The persistence in his bones is not easy to find.

You must know that with the strength of only two people, we can organize the information of thousands of websites into an index service, but it is a manual work without enthusiasm, and it will definitely not work.

Tang Huan casually opened the Yahoo page on his computer, and couldn't help but smile to himself—the server in the apartment of David Filo and Jerry Yang was so overwhelmed that it was about to go on strike.

The little cousin Meng Jing who was sorting out the information at the side rolled her eyes when she saw Tang Huan's calculating and contented expression, "Brother, you preemptively registered so many domain names, you are not afraid of others saying that you are bullying the small." Is it?"

"Silly girl, with these domain names, we can virtually not miss any fish in the layout." Tang Huan laughed, "When someone comes to ask about domain name transfer, it is equivalent to a procedural event trigger, no You know how much energy you save."

Meng Jing nodded suddenly, "Then you have said Yahoo's name several times, are you planning to catch this fish that slipped through the net?"

"Yahoo is not a fish that slipped through the net, but a fish in my pool." Tang Huan replied playfully: "By the way, Yahoo's hits are about to exceed 1 million. It is estimated that David Filo and Jerry Yang Poor graduate students should also have an idea of ​​the commercial value of the work they are interested in. You should go to our alumni immediately, and don’t let other venture capital get ahead of you; after you have been busy for a while, arrange a meeting with everyone.”

"Understood." Meng Jing agreed, and then handed over a document, "This year's Comdex Las Vegas Autumn Exhibition is really a rare competition, not to mention the home video game console field. Sony's, just a browser software polestar of Zheru Software Company - Polaris, has a new competitor."

Tang Huan looked at the document, and said calmly: "I know this netscape——Netscape, a small company established by Jim Clark, who left Silicon Valley Graphics, with an investment of 4 million U.S. dollars—the browser market. It’s not much, it’s not less.”

"You have repeatedly emphasized to us that in the competition on the Internet platform, free is a big killer." Meng Jing reminded: "Compared to polestar's commercial software, which is temporarily free in the name of promotion, Now netscape_navigator——Netscape Navigator, as soon as the official version 1.0 is released, it does not hesitate to position it as a shareware, and it is really free, which can be described as menacing, unmatched by other competitors."

"Polestar is leading in technology, and has a first-mover advantage in market share. It is not afraid of netscape_navigator's disruption." Tang Huan waved his hand relaxedly, "netscape_navigator wants to use clean and free means to grab market share. You can spend money to buy others to use polestar through packaged promotions of multiple software products and hidden subsidies.”

Meng Jing smiled and said: "Brother, you have to pay attention, although Zheru Software has been spun off and reached an anti-monopoly settlement with the Federal Department of Justice, there are still people watching - it's too domineering, It's easy to give people a handle."

"In addition, when it comes to promotions, I remembered that Polestar's browser homepage was sold to America Online; if we continue to support Yahoo, the relationship between this small-scale alliance will be a bit difficult to coordinate."