Chapter 257 Independent Search Engine and Portal Website

Oops, it actually alerted the Xinhua News Agency reporter in Singapore. If you are interviewed by Xinhua News Agency and then published by the mainland media, it will be awesome. You can also help Yahoo and Yifan companies to advertise again.

Li Xiaofan immediately replied: "No problem, Reporter Yang, I'm available at any time!"

After talking on the phone with Yang Meiqian, Li Xiaofan was thinking that the most authoritative national news agency in the country was going to interview him. He had to think carefully about how to use this interview to expand his influence...

Recently, Li Xiaofan has registered several domain names such as 1f, f1, 1fan, yifan, etc., and currently uses them mainly for external publicity and promotion.

1fan

Yifan Company has specially created its own website and webpage for this domain name, and Pan Zhanlong and Gu Qijun are usually responsible for maintaining it.

Everyone thinks that the English "fan" translated into Chinese means fan and blowing, and the meaning feels quite good.

Returning to the Singapore Science Park office, before leaving get off work, Li Xiaofan summoned Liu Yanping, who is in charge of the company's trading business, Zhou Xiaoqing, who is in charge of finance, and two top computer science students from the National University of Singapore, Pan Zhanlong and Gu Qijun, to brainstorm together.

In the small conference room, Li Xiaofan prepared a 5-liter bucket of Tiger Ice Beer for everyone, as well as many delicious snacks delivered in packages.

After entering the conference room, everyone was surprised: "Wow, what day is it today? Boss Li actually invited us to drink beer and eat delicious food at work?"

Li Xiaofan smiled and said: "Let's hold a brainstorming session before get off work. Everyone can speak freely about the future development of our company's business! Enough beer!"

Liu Yanping reported first: "Director Li, after recently posting these new photos of beauties and sunglasses on our Yifan company website, business has been extremely good. Every day I receive many emails from all over the world to inquire about sunglasses business. It feels like The sunglasses business is booming!”

Li Xiaofan guided with a smile: "Yanping, let's talk together, why is our company's sunglasses business so booming recently?"

Pan Zhanlong and Gu Qijun said with a bad smile: "Maybe it's because the glasses models on our website are very beautiful and sexy, and they attract the attention of male netizens like us on the Internet!"

Li Xiaofan laughed and said: "Haha, you are all wrong! In fact, after the recent listing of Netscape Browser Company on NASDAQ, especially dows After the release of the 95 Windows system, Jerry Yang told me that their Yahoo users are increasing every day. Now the Yahoo website has a lot of traffic. There are currently five to six million users visiting every day, and the number of new users every day is several dozen. The number of visits is increasing at a rate of 100,000, and it is estimated that it will soon reach the terrifying number of tens of millions of visits per day. This will invisibly increase the traffic of our Yifan website that advertises on the homepage of the Yahoo website!”

Li Xiaofan continued to ask: "Our current Yifan Company website is only used to display some of our company's daily consumer goods, glasses, sunglasses, infrared induction lawn lamps and other products. Compared with the huge traffic of Yahoo, do we feel that it is a bit waste?"

Seeing that Li Xiaofan had talked so much, Sichuan girl Liu Yanping said bluntly: "Director Li, if you have any ideas, why don't you just give us instructions directly?"

Li Xiaofan took a sip of beer and said: "Haha, I haven't made up my mind yet. Tomorrow our country's Xinhua News Agency reporter in Singapore will come to interview me. I think we will discuss it internally first. After the release of the Windows 95 window system, a brand new The Internet era is coming. In addition to doing some trading business on the Internet, can Yifan Company do something bigger, such as building an Internet platform to help a large number of domestic small and medium-sized enterprises sell their products overseas? "

"Building a platform? Director Li, this workload is too big. Mainland China is so big and there are so many small and medium-sized enterprises. We have to convince them to go online and display their products. There are also a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises that do not have import and export facilities." Licensing rights. Moreover, many domestic companies lack foreign language talents and cannot communicate with foreigners. "Liu Yanping shook her head.

"Then if we help Yahoo build a Chinese version of Yahoo's search website in China, and help these domestic companies display their products to global Internet users on the Yahoo website, then they must be very happy, right?"

Zhou Xiaoqing interjected: "Director Li, I will definitely be happy with those domestic companies, but if their products can be released to the world through Yahoo, foreign users can directly contact these manufacturers. Then it will definitely affect us in the future. Yifan Company’s trading business!”

"Well, what Xiaoqing said makes sense!" Liu Yanping, Pan Zhanlong and Gu Qijun all agreed with Zhou Xiaoqing's statement.

"What Xiaoqing said makes sense, but the cake of international trade is really too big. I just checked a data online. Last year in 1994, our mainland China's export volume was 1,042.2 billion yuan, almost 1 trillion yuan. Among them The United States alone exports 21.5 billion US dollars. As for Yifan Company, our trade volume this year is only 6 to 7 million US dollars, and it will not exceed 10 million US dollars at most.”

Liu Yanping responded: "That just shows that our Yifan company has great potential for trade growth!"

"Well, it is true that the growth potential is great, but after reaching a certain level, the trading business does not have much technical content and will encounter a ceiling. If we work with Yahoo to invest in a Chinese portal in China, providing search and news Wouldn’t it be more interesting to wait for some interesting service functions?”

Pan Zhanlong said: "Director Li, you have a good idea! Now when we go online, we can hardly find a Chinese website. It is not easy to find some domestic information and news. We usually have to go through foreign English websites. Go look for domestic English news. It would be great if we built a Chinese version of the portal website where we can find relevant information and see relevant news in a timely manner!”

Li Xiaofan suddenly thought of something and asked: "Lao Pan, what do you think of Yahoo's current search engine technology?"

When talking about this professional topic, Dr. Pan Zhanlong began to talk non-stop: "Yahoo's search engine belongs to category directory search engine technology. It is currently the most popular and best-used among the major search engines on the Internet. The current Yahoo website is quite Yahoo's search engine has become a customizable database that meets the needs of thousands of new users who have just begun to use network services through the Internet community. Yahoo's search engine can help these new Internet users find, identify and edit effectively. Information stored on the Internet…”

Li Xiaofan continued to ask: "Then what are its shortcomings?"

Pan Zhanlong replied: "Yahoo's directory-style search engine incorporates a large number of artificial intelligence choices, so the information is accurate and the navigation quality is high. The disadvantages are that it requires a lot of manual intervention, a lot of maintenance, a small amount of information, and information updates are sometimes Not in time..."

"Lao Pan, is it possible that we don't cooperate with Yahoo now? Our Yifan Company will develop a Chinese search engine ourselves and return to China to build a centralized Chinese search function, as well as e-mail, entertainment, sports, news,

A Chinese portal with forums and other functions? "