Chapter 33

Seeing that AOL is going to go public, Henry knows that he needs to move faster. Nicholas's website is burning more and more money now. The money raised through Netscape is almost gone. In addition to the domain name management company and West German publishing house, Henry's industry is spending money every year!

Henry's hand was a little tight, and he felt a bit stretched.

Now, Cisco, a fierce tiger, has killed 13 small and medium-sized network equipment manufacturers in the United States at a cost of $740 million! Among them, Citibank and Morgan bank have lent Cisco a billion dollars. Cisco will continue to roll over and buy all the technologies that are helpful to Cisco; All the companies that threaten Cisco should be merged!

Cisco's action is really ferocious, stunned the United States, even Sequoia Capital is also stunned. Compared with Cisco, the pace of 3Com is slow and steady.

Henry said that 3Com will be finished sooner or later, waiting to be acquired by Cisco!

Capital world play capital!

Regular development, too slow. The fastest way to accumulate technology and scale is to acquire a company!

Citibank and Morgan bank are not without reasons to help Cisco. First of all, Cisco has great development potential; Secondly, Cisco is going to be listed at the end of the year, and the listed contractors are the two! The more successful Cisco is going public, the more Citibank and Morgan bank will earn. Cisco's serial acquisition portfolio is the best for Wall Street or investors! On the day of listing, I don't know how high the stock price will be!

What's more, Cisco doesn't buy companies casually, but it is very targeted. It buys companies related to its technology, which can promote the development of Cisco. Therefore, such acquisitions are highly strategic and highly commendable!

Originally, Sequoia Capital would definitely take part in the listing of Cisco, but Henry can't stand Sequoia Capital any more. Not only Henry can't stand Sequoia Capital, but also the whole management of Cisco!

Who called Sequoia Capital to support 3Com company, which has seriously damaged the interests of Cisco!

As the controlling shareholder of Cisco, Henry decided to kick off Sequoia Capital, which also won the strong support of John Chambers and others!

Sequoia Capital is now in a very awkward position in Cisco, it has completely become a decoration. Although it has a seat on the board, it has no use for birds. And in the management of the company, no one pays attention to it!

Ford Brooke basically doesn't come to Cisco. He's also very angry when he comes!

However, Cisco's current negative equity rate is very high, reaching - 37%. But this negative equity is nothing. Many big companies have developed with loans.

Cisco doesn't have to worry about Henry, and it doesn't have to inject capital. It can already be self-sufficient and bully others!

But Pixar Animation Studio, noah ark, Isearch and Nicholas group are burning money one by one.

Pixar Animation Studio's new computer animation short film "Red's dream" won the comprehensive computer image award at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the kinikas award at the Prix ARS electronica Film Festival in Austria. Although this makes Henry very happy, but compared with another achievement, that is much worse.

RenderMan, a program developed by Pixar, is about to be completed. RenderMan is a computer image rendering system, which is widely used in the production and production of high-end moving images. Therefore, it is also an indispensable technology in high-end fields such as animated films and special effects!

This kind of special effect technology, which means a lot to Pixar! Henry expressed great concern about this matter, and even set up a special effects company similar to industrial light magic! It's just that the RenderMan program hasn't been completed. Wait until it's finished.

After that, Henry often stayed in Isearch company. After the improvement of the web crawler, it was really stronger and the patent was registered. The next step is to analyze and process the web information. This time, Henry put forward the concept of web page level. The web sites in the Internet are good or bad, so the quality of the web pages returned to users is particularly important!

Henry stood in the crowd and said, "therefore, we need to design a ranking algorithm to evaluate the importance of these websites, so as to provide users with the best quality information!"

"My assumption is that since every web page will contain links from other websites, does it mean that the page voted for these linked websites? So the more tickets that link to the website, the higher its level! But we also know that there are a lot of junk websites on the Internet. Therefore, for excellent websites with large traffic, can we set their initial level very high and then cast more votes than ordinary websites? "

Henry said with a calm look. Google's PageRank is so famous that it almost makes Google brilliant. If you don't copy it, don't be a search engine

After listening to Henry's words, everyone immediately admired him. Even bill Joyce and Luke Stowe boast of genius, but they are willing to be inferior to Henry!

"CEO, what's the name of this ranking algorithm?" Asked Luke Stowe excitedly.

"PageRank, page level!" Henry pretends to force light to say. He is not only the chairman of Isearch, but also the CEO of Isearch! With so many industries under his name, why did he become CEO of Isearch? Obviously, Henry's expectations of Isearch are not so high!

While enjoying the glory, Henry said: "the way of user search is generally title and keyword, so on the basis of mixed title and keyword, you need to adjust the results through PageRank, so that the pages with higher level rank in the search results according to the ranking order of the website, so as to improve the relevance and quality of the search results!"

"CEO, we get it!" Everyone said in unison!

Then Henry set the task on. These employees are excellent students from Stanford University, and their level is good. With Bill Joyce and Luke Stowe, the project should go smoothly. It's not difficult to write code. The difficulty is thinking and design. Make the program is not difficult, difficult is to make the algorithm is very good, fast response, processing accurate program!

Now the Internet is not as good as in the future, the amount of information to be processed is very small, and it is not required to be able to compare with Google to meet the current needs!

In October, Isearch's search engine was finally completed. Through the test, the search experience is good, two seconds can return very accurate results! The product can be put on the market, but Henry is still asking them to continue to improve, especially the algorithm. Now there are less than 20000 websites and less than one million Internet users. The amount of information is very small. It takes 2 seconds for Isearch to return the result. You can imagine how good this algorithm can be!

Now that Isearch's search engine is enough, Henry's companies will use this product, and tailor the search system for Nicholas website, Netscape browser, global online, IMDB, Cisco official website, Noah Ark official website!

November 1, this day is destined to stir the United States!

Henry's company's website all has a search box, input the content to search, click "Isearch", and immediately return the information users need!

This function is too practical and powerful, which leads to a sharp increase in global online traffic, and the server is almost jammed! Other websites are also a big increase in traffic, and Netscape browser because of the search box, the stock price of the day made a crazy frenzy, can not stop! It's not hard to climb the 6 billion mark of market value in one go（ Have you collected it? If you collect it, don't forget to vote, please support it