Chapter 1516 Someone Wants to Acquire Facebook

The issue of charging for 361 Browser is not a whim, it has been planned for a long time.

When 361 Browser came out, it could not make such a profit in order to seize the market, so it had to be shelved temporarily.

The browser only relies on some advertisements and web games to make its revenue report look better. Otherwise, no matter how high the valuation of 361 is, the company will feel uncomfortable when it sees the financial report at the end of the year.

So when 361 was first established, although it planned to make antivirus software, security guards and browsers, the best thing it did at the beginning was web games, because the entire 361 department was counting on this to give out year-end bonuses.

Now web games have been assigned to the game department of Xuri Technology, and 361 only has advertising revenue left, so it is natural to open up other sources of income.

In this way, charging for homepage links naturally became the first choice. After all, the average daily page views of 361 Browser have exceeded 100 million. If this were placed on some portal websites, the advertising fees would be skyrocketing.

But in order to ensure its quality and reputation, 361 dare not accept random advertisements. At the same time, the announcement page does not give much, so it cannot affect the user experience, right?

So the income from this advertising fee is also limited, so it is urgent to collect advertising fees from major portals and various game companies on the homepage.

And in order to collect advertising fees this time, 361 even removed the link of Baidu, which is currently the hottest chicken, from the homepage of the website.

The biggest pressure to remove various links on the homepage is not those portals with large traffic, because if netizens simply want to read news, there will be news push on the 361 browser.

If you don’t want to read these real-time news, you want to read formal news, and the website links of major official media are pinned on the homepage, whether it is political news, military news, sports news, or financial news.

And the news reported by these official media is more professional and formal than the news reported by those portals.

So removing the links of these portals that seem to be wealthy and powerful at present, in fact, the biggest pressure is not 361, but these websites themselves.

Because anyone with a discerning eye can see that the era of portal websites has passed, and now is the era of traffic. 361 Browser occupies the entrance of traffic, and it is the peak of idle traffic. Portal websites are getting worse day by day.

Now, except for the old netizens who are used to visiting portal websites every day when they go online, new netizens just glance at the news pushed by 361.

Then they start playing games directly and no longer contribute traffic to portal websites. This is also one of the main factors for the decline of portal websites.

So compared with these portal websites, Baidu is the one that makes 361 feel the most pressure. Because of some Internet barriers in China, Baidu can now be said to be the only one in China.

If netizens want to know some information, they don’t look for it on 361 Browser or portal websites, but search directly on Baidu.

For example, when Weibo created various registered user records before, although 361 pages also pushed related news. But there are still many netizens who use Baidu to search for topics such as "Weibo registered users today", "whether a certain star has opened a Weibo account", "a certain official has opened a Weibo account", etc.

For example, if you want to watch a movie online, you don’t go to Youku or the 361 movie column, but search the movie name on Baidu and click the link to watch it.

When shopping on Taobao, you don’t search for items on Taobao, but search for what you want on Baidu directly, get the link and then buy it.

Before the notorious "bidding ranking" became popular, Baidu had a high reputation in the minds of netizens, and it was also very convenient for everyone to use.

So Baidu was removed from the first position of the 361 browser. When netizens want to search for something, they can’t click Baidu in the old position of the browser and go directly to the Baidu page to search.

Instead, they need to enter the Baidu URL to search on Baidu, which brings great inconvenience to users, and thus has a certain impact on the reputation of 361 in the minds of users.

"For now, although everyone is a little uncomfortable with the newly updated browser page, it is still within the tolerance range. After all, they can't find a better browser than 361 in China.

At the same time, netizens are actually used to using 361 browser, and they will not be used to changing to another browser. Therefore, the most controversial discussion at present is the discussion of removing the Baidu link.

For example, many netizens are complaining on Tieba, and the number of replies to some related news on some portal websites is also very high, and it is also a hot topic on Weibo.

The issue of charging users on the 361 homepage is currently the number one hot topic, and the discussion about not being able to use Baidu as conveniently as before is currently the fifth hot topic with high popularity."

In the office of Xuri Technology, General Manager Sun Yang made a detailed report on the current situation.

361 suddenly wanted to charge users on the homepage, which not only shocked the entire Internet, but also went viral. Many official media followed up on the report.

After all, according to the meaning of 361's external announcement, it is obvious that companies that are listed on the homepage in the future are not necessarily Internet companies. Some other companies can also compete for homepage advertising space, such as physical companies such as Huaxia BMW, which is a good example.

So it is not just the attention of Internet companies and netizens, but also the social attention of this matter has become very high under the influence of some official media.

"What are the specific reactions?" Yang Dongxu asked.

"It seems that the CEOs of several major portals have discussed privately. I don't know if they are preparing to boycott us together, or have other plans.

After seeing the power of 361 browser in blocking keywords on Weibo, some other Internet companies seem to have the idea of ​​making browsers.

Among them, Baidu seems to have become more active. Now it is not only working hard to develop its own Weibo, but it is said that it has held several high-level meetings to build its own wandering portal."

Speaking of Baidu, Sun Yang curled his lips subconsciously.

To be honest, he admired this hot chicken at the beginning. Although his search was imitated from Google, he really has two brushes in the field of search engines and his products are top-notch.

With such a high share listed in the United States, although there is water, its own strength is also there. It is one of the current Internet companies that can really fight.

But after going public, some of Baidu's practices made people speechless. Before going public, it imitated 361 to set up a forum, but after going public, it clearly held a lot of funds harvested from the stock market.

But Baidu seems to be more and more fond of bidding rankings, and dares to take any advertisement as long as they are willing to bid.

For example, online novels are becoming popular now. When you search for the name of an online novel on Baidu, the pirated website is actually ranked in a brighter position in front of the genuine website.

What's more, there are more than one pirated website in the front, there are five or six, or even more than ten. If you want to read a book on the genuine website, you often have to scroll down several times to find it.

Not to mention the ranking of some hotels and game links, plus the ranking of hospitals related to personal health also has a bidding.

Anyway, although Baidu is very popular now, many people in the same industry have begun to sneer, and netizens' trust in it has gradually lost.

Although it has indeed made a lot of money, its character has begun to deteriorate little by little.

In fact, 361 suddenly started to charge for advertising links on the homepage, and many peers also felt that 361 wanted to follow Baidu's bidding ranking. So they were a little bit sneered at 361's operation.

As the pioneer of this industry and the current big brother, Baidu is naturally more vigilant about this. The senior management has held several meetings because of this matter.

And while working on its own Weibo project, it is also the most active company to develop its own browser. After all, the entrance to this traffic is in the hands of 361, how can it be assured in its own hands.

Besides, the browser does not have any high technical barriers. The most important thing about this thing is to go in volume. At present, Baidu is very popular. When using Baidu, there is no technical difficulty in popping up a pop-up window to install Baidu browser.

"Keep paying attention." Yang Dongxu said.

He is not very worried about other Internet companies doing browsers. From a technical perspective, browsers do have a lot of high-end technology.

But it is precisely because there is no high-end technology that anyone can do it, so the competition will be more intense. In a market environment where anyone can do it, 361 Browser, which is already the leader in the industry, will basically not fall from the position of the leader as long as it does not commit suicide.

As for the issue of charging for homepage links this time, it is obviously not as serious as committing suicide. It is just a little ripple, but it cannot shake its position as the leader in the browser market.

When these companies who want to control the browser entrance by themselves hit the south wall, they will naturally feel the pain. After all, portal websites are now beginning to decline, and it is conceivable how difficult it is for these people to kill 361 Browser.

At the same time, because the competition is too fierce, if you want to gain market share, you have to burn money. Speaking of burning money, it seems that Xu Ri Technology is not afraid of anyone, and it has a huge game market behind it.

Knock knock knock, there is a knock on the door.

"Please come in!"

"Director Yang, Manager Sun."

"Manager Chen." Sun Yang stood up and greeted, "If there is nothing else, Director Yang, I will go out first."

"Well, notify me in time if there is anything." Yang Dongxu nodded.

Chen Xin nodded to Sun Yang as a farewell.

"What's the matter?" Yang Dongxu asked.

"The latest news from the US is that Yahu is going to acquire Facebook."

"When did it happen?" Yang Dongxu was shocked.

Facebook is his biggest layout in the US market besides Google. Yahu is going to acquire Facebook?

Then why didn't he, the major shareholder, know about it?

Well, now I know!

"Yesterday, late at night here, Yahu's people had contact with Zack."