Text Volume 291 [Search Engine]

After a year of development, Sohu, a company with only four people, has grown to a scale with 18 employees.

And the little fat man Ding Ming also became a medium fat man. His IT skills have not improved much, because there are too many things to do every day, and there is no time to delve into technical issues.

This guy has been obsessed with it since he was a child, and he didn't learn much about business skills, but he learned how to deal with people thoroughly from his father. He is now Zhang Chaoyang's full-time assistant, responsible for the company's daily affairs, connecting up and down, left and right, and developing towards the direction of professional management skills.

The funniest thing is that Ding Ming's temper has become worse. He used to have no conflicts with anyone at school.

There is no way, Zhang Chaoyang is a good man and never scolds and punishes employees. Since the boss is playing the red face, Ding Ming, the second child, has to play the bad face, otherwise the company will definitely be messed up.

So now Ding Ming's nickname in the company is "Smiling Tiger". He usually talks and laughs, but suddenly turns his face. If someone made a mistake, Ding Ming could call someone over to scold him for an hour or two, and then supervise the erroneous person to make corrections throughout the whole process.

But when this guy is not angry, he is extraordinarily kind and considerate. He remembers every employee's birthday, and buys birthday cakes out of his own pocket, which always brings surprises and touches to people. If any employee coughed twice, Ding Ming went to buy cold medicine in minutes, and reminded the employee to drink more hot water and rest more.

After one year, the employees respected and feared Ding Ming, and his personal prestige was established in this way.

On the contrary, it was Zhang Chaoyang, the general manager. While the employees respected and loved him, they couldn't help but underestimate him. Employees can joke with Zhang Chaoyang unscrupulously, and even slack off under Zhang Chaoyang's nose, because everyone knows that Zhang Chaoyang has a very good temper, and if he makes a mistake, he will scold at most if he is caught.

In this way, Zhang Chaoyang actually felt dependent on Ding Ming, his assistant. When tasks were assigned, he asked Ding Ming to arrange them; when employees made mistakes, he asked Ding Ming to deal with them; even for company dinners, he asked Ding Ming to choose restaurants and order dishes because Ding Ming knew which employees liked what to eat.

Zhang Chaoyang feels good, he only needs to focus on the overall situation and the general direction, and he can leave any trivial matters to his assistant.

Ding Ming felt so tired, a hundred times more tired than studying. He seemed to care about nothing, but he cared about everything. Now he can only sleep for a few hours a day, and everyone else is resting. He has to think about the work plan for tomorrow, and he has already gained more than ten catties in a year.

Just two months ago, Ding Ming contracted the spring flu. Coupled with long-term fatigue, he lay in bed for a week before recovering.

For Zhang Chaoyang, everything went against the grain that week, and it made him lose his temper in the company for the first time ever. The employees also quickly discovered that their work efficiency would decrease exponentially without the fat man who always loves to talk. The "smiling tiger" is so important to the company.

Early in the morning, Ding Ming took advantage of his father's big brother without a caller ID function, so he called from the company's landline: "Hello, Dad, it's me."

"You guys still remember to call me? We agreed to call at the beginning of every month, and it's already the 12th!" Father Ding said, "I'll send you the money and buy a mobile phone right away, bp machine is also fine. In case I can't contact you usually."

Ding Ming said with a smile: "It's really unnecessary. Using luxury goods in school will have a bad influence."

Father Ding said, "How about studying?"

"Well, the teacher praised me yesterday." Ding Ming said nonsense.

"Remember to build a good relationship with your classmates and make more friends. If you don't have enough money, I'll remit it to you." Father Ding instructed.

"I know, I know," Ding Ming said, "Don't send me money either. Last year, I made hundreds of thousands of stocks with Song Weiyang."

Father Ding said: "Boss Song in your dormitory must have a good relationship. You have become a good buddy with him, and you will have no worries in this life. After graduation, you come back to inherit the factory, and maybe you can work with Xifeng Company." Do business."

Ding Ming said: "Yes, yes, I have a very good relationship with Song Weiyang, so don't worry, Dad."

The father and son chatted for a while. Seeing Zhang Chaoyang approaching, Ding Ming quickly said, "Dad, I have to go to class. Hang up first."

"Study hard, make progress every day, and make more friends." Father Ding is still instructing.

"Goodbye!" Ding Ming hung up hastily.

Zhang Chaoyang smiled and said, "Are you lying to your dad again? Just tell him clearly."

Ding Ming shook his head again and again: "My dad came from the countryside, and I was the first college student in the village. If he knew that I dropped out of school halfway, he would fly over and break my leg."

"Let's go, the meeting is over." Zhang Chaoyang said.

The company has a meeting every day to discuss the hyperlink content of the day. Now it mainly makes hyperlinks from People.cn, and the proportion of Huayuan.com has dropped instead.

Throughout 1997, the Chinese Internet site with the largest traffic was not Sohu, nor Sitong Lifang, nor the newly established NetEase, but People's Daily Online!

After Ma Xiaoyun helped "People's x Daily" to create People.cn, the website was launched on January 1, and it underwent four revisions within ten months. The contents include: Overseas Edition, East China Board, Market News, Global Times, News Front, Humor With irony, land, tide of the times, etc., there are even securities and financial sectors.

In terms of content, People's Daily Online is the richest; in terms of scale, People's Daily Online is also the largest.

In 11 months, People's Daily Online received more than 40 million visits, with an average of 400,000 visits per day. If this is a commercial website, it is estimated that investors on Wall Street have already waved their money to talk about cooperation.

Although Sohu claims to be China's largest commercial Internet site, it trembles when facing People's Daily Online, unswervingly acting as a thief every day from hyperlinking news from People's Daily Online.

"Hello, Mr. Yang!"

"Hello Mr. Ding!"

The employees greeted each other.

Among the 18 employees, one is in charge of finance, one is in charge of technical maintenance, one is in charge of advertising, and the rest are content editors. Among these content editors, there are also a few technical talents who often do odd jobs with Zhang Chaoyang to help customers build websites.

"Mr. Zhang, the chat room we just opened has become popular," the content editor who is also in charge of the chat room said happily, "The four chat rooms have all reached the upper limit of the number of people. You have to increase the number of people in the chat room and increase the number of people in the chat room." There is an upper limit on the number of people, otherwise I can't manage it at all."

Zhang Chaoyang said confusedly: "I watched it last night, and there were no ghosts in the chat room."

The person said: "A netizen wrote a book called "Three-Body Problem", which was serialized in our chat room, and many people came over from Stone to follow up on it."

"Three-Body Problem?" Zhang Chaoyang was even more confused.

Ding Ming smiled and said, "That netizen is Boss Song, and "Three-Body Problem" is a science fiction story he conceived before."

Zhang Chaoyang suddenly realized: "So this is how he increases the popularity of the chat room."

"Which Boss Song?"

"Of course it's our big boss, Song Weiyang!"

"I thought "Three-Body Problem" was written by a science student."

"Boss Song is amazing!"

"..."

Seeing that the employees were getting older and more lively, Ding Ming coughed suddenly: "Everyone, please rest assured, Mr. Zhang will preside over today's meeting."

Those employees immediately shut up, and Zhang Chaoyang said, "Let's not discuss the content of hyperlinks today, I plan to recruit a few more people, and then assign a group of people to specialize in search engines."

"Are there enough people?" Ding Ming asked.

"Enough," Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile, "Yahoo's search engine, two people can do it, why can't we? This year's Internet explosion, China has hundreds of World Wide Web sites, and this number is likely to double by the end of the year." times. There is more and more content on the Internet, which is a good time to be a search engine.”

Ding Ming asked: "Are you going to be a first-generation search engine like Yahoo?"

"Yes." Zhang Chaoyang said.

"I think the second-generation search engine is more promising," Ding Ming said. "There are more and more Internet content, and it is definitely more and more difficult to provide search targets for netizens through directory search. When I was searching for foreign content on Yahoo recently, I used I often can’t find what I want, but the latest version of ebcrale is more useful.”

Zhang Chaoyang shook his head and said, "The second-generation search engine, the search results contain a lot of irrelevant content. I have used it before, and it is even more difficult to use than the first generation. Sometimes there is not even a single useful content."

Historically, Sohu, like Yahoo, was the first-generation search engine, which was officially launched in February 1998. That thing is catalog-based, and the database is manually made, and the content outside the database cannot be searched at all. Later, with the rise of Baidu, Sohu quickly followed up and developed Sogou Search (the third-generation search engine).

Ding Ming thought for a while and said, "I have an idea, but I don't know if it's feasible. That is, when users use the second-generation search engine, they can use technology to intelligently filter out irrelevant content and only display useful content."

"This... I guess it will be difficult to achieve, it is more realistic to be a first-generation search engine." Zhang Chaoyang said.

Ding Ming hesitated to speak, he didn't know what to say, he was just a beginner technically and had no right to speak. But in terms of daily use, he feels that the existing directory-based search must be eliminated, because Yahoo search is getting more and more difficult, and with the increase of Internet content, Yahoo-style search can completely collapse people.

Seeing that Ding Ming seemed to have an objection, Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile, "Let's vote. Those who do catalog search please raise your hand."

No doubt, all votes passed, except for Ding Ming.

After the meeting, Ding Ming approached Zhang Chaoyang and suggested, "How about we call Lao Song?"

"He doesn't understand technology, so ask him what to do?" Zhang Chaoyang laughed.

"We can listen to his opinion, anyway, there is no shortage of those phone bills." Ding Ming said.

Zhang Chaoyang said: "Then you fight."

Ding Ming quickly dialed the phone and explained the situation: "Brother Yang, we are going to build a search engine. The first generation is a directory search, which can only find content in the database, and cannot find content outside the database. This kind of search engine There is a big bottleneck in development. The second generation belongs to the whole network keyword search, which does not need to manually create a complete database, but it always finds a lot of irrelevant content, and the user experience is very bad. Which one do you think is better for development? "

"The second generation." Song Weiyang directly made a choice.

Zhang Chaoyang quickly said, "Boss Song, the second-generation technology is still not perfect."

Song Weiyang said: "Then recruit people to improve it. To set up a search engine research and development team, is 1 million yuan a year enough?"

Zhang Chaoyang said: "I don't know, maybe this is a bottomless pit."

"That's 1 million in the first year," Song Weiyang said, "You hire people to do it, and I'll pay for it. Don't worry, the money won't dilute your shares, it's my personal sponsorship."

"I...Okay." Zhang Chaoyang reluctantly agreed.

Zhang Chaoyang is an entrepreneur who will not reject others, not to mention Song Weiyang is still the major shareholder, he does not want to cause conflicts because of this matter. Moreover, Song Weiyang paid for it privately, which made it even more difficult for Zhang Chaoyang to object.

However, Zhang Chaoyang disapproved of this project from the bottom of his heart, and felt a lot of resentment. He even wanted to let go of it, recruit people to fend for themselves, and what results can be developed depends entirely on God's will.

Rubbing his face, Zhang Chaoyang said to Ding Ming: "You are fully responsible for the search engine project. If you have any technical problems, you can ask me."

"Okay." Ding Ming knew that there was a conflict between him and Zhang Chaoyang. I just hope that this contradiction can be slowly repaired.

Ding Ming immediately went to arrange the recruitment plan, and in front of Zhang Chaoyang, he said to all employees: "Mr. Zhang has changed his mind. He has already thought of a technical solution, so he plans to develop a second-generation search engine. Let us help Zhang Chaoyang General applause, under Zhang's wise leadership, Sohu will definitely become the best Internet company in the world!"

"Crack, clap, clap!"

Many employees clapped along in confusion.

Zhang Chaoyang could only shake his head and smile wryly. He knew that Ding Ming was trying to save face for him, and it was not good to get angry like this, but he couldn't express his resentment.

Song Weiyang's thoughts at this time were: Is this going to kill Baidu in the egg state?