Chapter 587 Beautiful Engineer

Author: Linjiangxian

Chapter 587 Beautiful Engineer

United States, California.

Lu Yiming was invited by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to visit Google's new headquarters.

Recently, Sergey Brin and Larry Page have run the company very well. Not only has the office moved out of the original large warehouse, but even the computer equipment has been fully upgraded.

Larry Page proudly showed off to Lu Yiming the results of his and Sergey Brin's efforts, and asked: "Why, is all this not bad?"

Lu Yiming said approvingly: "Of course, very good. I believe you will lead Google to create miracles and become a legend in the Internet industry."

At this moment, Lu Yiming's cell phone rang, and he said to the two of them, "Sorry, I'll answer the phone."

Lu Yiming walked aside and just pressed the answer button when he heard Epstein say excitedly on the other end of the phone: "The channel problem has been solved. When will the goods be delivered?"

When Lu Yiming heard this, he was slightly shocked and blurted out: "So fast?"

At this moment, he also discovered that he still underestimated Epstein's power. After all, even if you take a step back, this matter is still trying to steal the wool of the United States, which is not allowed by their rules. But Epstein

The fact that Stan was able to get it done so quickly shows that these rules were of little use to Epstein.

Facing Lu Yiming's surprise, Epstein was also very proud, feeling as if he had made a big splash in front of the young richest man in Xia Country.

"Of course it has to be quick, time is money, my friend."

Obviously, as a senior scumbag, Epstein was a complete activist when it came to making money, and he acted vigorously and resolutely.

"Okay, I'm in California now. I'll rush over right away to tell you what's going to happen next."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yiming said to Sergey Brin and Larry Page: "I need to go to New York now."

When they heard that Lu Yiming was leaving, both Sergey Brin and Larry Page hesitated to speak. Finally, Sergey Brin said: "Why are you leaving right now? I hope you can

Stay a few more days."

Lu Yiming said with regret: "Hey, I also want to stay for a few more days, but there is no way. I am born to work hard."

Larry Page asked curiously: "What have you been busy with recently?"

Lu Yiming said vaguely: "It's a small business, but I have to go there myself."

Sergey Brin frowned and said: "Lu, you haven't cared about Google's development for a long time. Don't forget, you are our chief strategy officer."

If you are an ordinary investor, there is no doubt that Larry Page and Sergey Brin like to see such hands-off business owners like Lu Yiming.

But in their eyes, Lu Yiming is clearly an Internet genius who can see through the fog of the future. As the chief strategy officer of Google, if Lu Yiming doesn't make suggestions, he feels sorry for the "salary" the company pays him.

Lu Yiming burst out laughing when he heard this. It is true that Google pays money into his account every month in the name of salary, but Lu Yiming didn't care about the money at all. After all, he bought the shares of Google just to be a salty person.

Fish, just waiting for Sergey Brin and Larry Page to take him on a flight.

In order to cover up his "dereliction of duty", Lu Yiming immediately said: "Aren't you two running the company prosperously now?"

Larry Page said: "Actually, we have encountered some troubles recently."

When Lu Yiming heard this, he felt a little surprised and asked, "Oh? What's the trouble?"

The two looked at each other, and then Sergey Brin spoke to Lu Yiming.

"There's a little bit of disagreement within Google about the future direction, so we wanted to ask your opinion."

Whether it is Yahoo, which started out as a search company, or other peers, they are currently developing in the direction of portal websites, and the proportion invested in search services continues to decrease.

Because the profitability of the search engine itself is low, even Google, which started to engage in bidding rankings, could not make much money from it.

On the contrary, the advertising business of portal websites is a hot commodity. After all, the Internet has developed so far in the cold winter period that many peers cannot bear it and "die". The remaining companies have expanded their market share, and with the addition of new Internet

With the emergence of a large number of users, web advertising has been sold at a higher price than before.

This has led to some different voices within Google.

There are two paths before everyone. One is that Google also takes the portal route, which wastes money and only cares about the immediate situation.

The other way is to choose poetry and distance, go in the opposite direction, and take advantage of the fact that the entire industry is in ruins. Google is alone and continues to delve into the field of search engines, constantly investing in research and development, and completing technological upgrades.

After understanding the ins and outs of the matter, Lu Yiming asked: "What do you two think?"

Sergey Brin sighed and said: "The idea of ​​the two of us is to continue to strengthen Google's technological advantages until we become irreplaceable in the industry."

As the founders of Google, there is no doubt that both of them are very ambitious and courageous people. They will never settle down and forget their original intentions just for the sake of a small profit in front of them.

But some employees at Google obviously don’t think so. After all, the lofty ambitions and ideals to change the world are just slogans, and slogans cannot be eaten, let alone exchanged for real money.

They join Google and become part-time workers, not to help their bosses realize their dreams, but to live in a big villa, marry a supermodel wife, and then be able to drive a sports car to work every day.

Starting an advertising business, among other things, the increase in monthly bonuses is an immediate benefit.

Because of this incident, both Sergey Brin and Larry Page were somewhat confused.

Lu Yiming can be said to be well aware of the future development trends of the Internet. He knows that portals have no future.

The so-called portal website refers to an application system that provides certain types of comprehensive Internet information resources and provides related information services.

From this feature, we can know that portals benefit from information differences.

However, with the development of the times and the popularization of the Internet and smart technology, people have more and more ways to obtain information, and portals have ceased to exist in name only.

Lu Yiming said seriously: "I think Google should focus on the development of the search engine field and increase the usage of Google."

Sergey Brin asked: "Why?"

Lu Yiming said seriously: "What is the most important thing about the Internet? It is users. If you capture users, Google will be invincible. What is Google's search volume now?"

Sergey Brin proudly puffed up his chest and said: "At the beginning, Google's search volume was only 10,000 times a day, and now it has increased to 300 million times a day!"

This data, looking at the current situation, definitely dwarfs all peers.

Lu Yiming said categorically: "As the usage rate of Google becomes higher and higher, advertisers will be attracted to us. Why? Because the users are all here with us!"

The two of them were originally more inclined to technology research and development, so they were very happy after receiving Lu Yiming's approval. Larry Page said: "It's great that your ideas are consistent with ours."

He then went on to say: "Long before Google became a verb, Yahoo was the dominant Internet search engine. But now times have changed, and we have even become the provider of Yahoo's search engine."

It has to be said that Yahoo is one of those representatives who plays a good hand with a bad hand. It starts with destiny and ends with collapse. Excessive commercialization leads to overall backwardness in the field of technology. This is the root cause of Yahoo's failure.

An Internet company that started by relying on search, in the end, even the users who logged into the Yahoo portal did not use Yahoo's own search engine, but used Google.

From this point alone, we can see how different the structures and futures of the two companies are.

For some reason, Lu Yiming remembered a certain degree.

The development of Doudu and Google in the early stage cannot be said to be exactly the same, but they are also very similar.

But why did the two later embark on completely different development paths?

Google has become a super giant group with a market value of US$12,000. In comparison, at one time it was only US$46.9 billion, which was really not even a fraction of others.

Everyone is a search engine, why is there such a big difference?

After Google gained money, it continued to work hard in the technology field and achieved brilliant results.

The online video company includes Youtube, the operating system includes Android, the search engine includes Googlesearch, the advertising network includes Adsense, and hardware devices such as Google smart glasses, as well as Google Cloud, etc. It has even been involved in some non-Google businesses, such as medical and health care

, optical fiber transmission, X laboratory, driverless waymo life services, capital operation and other fields.

Through years of continuous development, Google has gradually moved from search business to broader exploration and development of cutting-edge technology.

To be precise, more than ten years later, Google has transformed from a search engine company into an Internet technology company.

In contrast, some degree is "all about money", and the projects and products it produces have basically no technical content. They have always relied on bidding rankings to rest on their laurels, and have completely lost the ambition and courage to continue to forge ahead.

"If a person doesn't have dreams, what's the difference between him and a salted fish?"

Sergey Brin ignored Lu Yiming's emotion and asked: "We made a Google toolbar and want you to give us some reference opinions."

Google's technical team is now developing a toolbar specifically for Microsoft's IE browser and Firefox. The purpose is to make users' online browsing more convenient and faster, and to help users get rid of all the troubles of Web browsing.

In fact, the browser toolbar is a very old product.

In the early days of the Internet era, as the core channel through which most Internet users access the Internet to obtain information, the design of browsers is still very crude, and it can basically only meet the needs of users to access websites by entering URLs in the address bar.

Lu Yiming asked: "Why are you doing this?"

Sergey Brin said: "We plan to improve the browser on the original basis and provide a series of features including a word translator and a pop-up blocker."

When Lu Yiming heard this, he thought, isn't this just a browser plug-in?

As a senior netizen, he is familiar with this stuff.

Today's browsers are very different from those used by later generations. To put it simply, today's browsers are still rough and have nothing except the most basic functions. And Lu Yiming lived before his rebirth.

The browsers of that era were all highly decorated and filled with all kinds of fancy functions.

Most of these functions appear in the form of plug-ins. They are what Sergey Brin calls toolbars.

Lu Yiming didn't know who created the plug-in first, but at least the browser he was using now didn't have it.

Maybe it was Google?

Sergey Brin sincerely invited: "We have made a prototype product, are you interested in trying it?"
To be continued...