Chapter 477

I haven't been to China for a year or two. It's changed a lot. Not to mention all kinds of high-rise buildings, there are more cars in the city than the year before last. Henry was in a traffic jam on his way to ZhongGuanCun. The traffic situation in Beijing really needs to be improved. Half an hour by car, Henry arrived at Baidu's headquarters after more than an hour.

At this time, we learned that Henry was coming, and Robin Li had been waiting for the company executives to wait under the building.

"Here you are, Mr. Williams!" Robin Li stepped forward and greeted him.

"What's it," Henry smiled at Robin Li. "Go, I haven't seen what the Baidu Inc headquarters is like."

"Good!"

The party went into the building.

The sixth floor of this building, called Zhongguancun Science and technology building, is Baidu's temporary headquarters.

After Henry walked into Baidu company, google employees looked at Henry one after another with respect and curiosity. In the past, I could only see Henry Williams in newspapers, TV and Internet, but now I can see the real person up close. How excited it is!!!

Henry looked back and forth. The number of employees in the company is no less than 100. Most of them are programmers.

Then Henry came to Robin Li's office and talked with him. Before, Henry raised $10 million for Baidu. With this money, Baidu can last for a long time, and its development speed is much faster than before. At this time, China's Internet environment has been "miasma" caused by 3721's "binding, unloading" hooligan behavior, and Baidu and CNNIC, the main website service, have joined the battlefield one after another, causing Chinese netizens "anger and resentment".

Henry's investment in China, by the way, plans Baidu's future development.

"Robin Li, who has more potential for development than Baidu and 3721?" Henry sat on the tea table chair, drinking Longjing tea, and asked.

"Baidu has greater development potential!" In a very confident tone, Robin Li said, "3721 pays attention to marketing, and Baidu attaches great importance to technology research and development. At present, although 3721 has more market share than Baidu, Baidu will catch up sooner or later! The experience of 3721 to users is very poor. The content of search is very different from each other. Their market share is supported by various advertising bundles and the software can not be unloaded. In fact, users don't like it. On the contrary, Baidu's user experience is very good, and has cultivated many determined users! "

Henry nodded and said, "even so, sometimes bad money drives good money..."

"Yes, but Baidu's market share has been rising steadily. After getting 10 million US dollars of investment, we decided to spend more than 2 million US dollars to advertise and publicize in ICQ, Netease, Sina, Sohu and other software and websites with large traffic in China. The effect is very obvious, and the market share has been increased by 8.7%! Today, Baidu has occupied a quarter of China's search market! "

When Robin Li said this sentence, he paid special attention to Henry's expression. China's Internet is a zero sum market. If one side increases, the other side will naturally decrease. Naturally, Baidu's market share has increased, which means that the market share of Isearch search will be reduced!

Henry's expression did not change, but what he saw was Robin Li's careful thinking. Henry took a sip of tea, put the cup on the coffee table, and then looked up at Robin Li. "You know, I have Isearch search in my name, but do you know what I want to invest in Baidu?"

Robin Li shook his head and said he did not know.

Henry said with a smile: "in fact, it's very simple. To use the Chinese idiom, it's" cunning rabbits, three caves. ". If Isearch fails in China, isn't there Baidu? " Henry stopped, turned his eyes, looked at the birds flying outside the window, and murmured, "the principle of Isearch is' don't do evil '. What the truth is, let the people have the right to know. Isearch is like a flying bird outside, free to fly in the sky

When Robin Li heard this, he suddenly became clear.

In Robin Li's view, Isearch's practice is sheer stupidity. Since coming to China, China must abide by the rules of China and do not follow the rules. China will implicitly ask you to go.

Of course, Robin Li is not going to tell Isearch directly in front of Henry that his behavior is foolish. He is rather proud and lucky. Of course, he would not remind Henry that Isearch would go his own way. In this way, it would be tied to the Chinese government. And the Chinese government from time to time to wear shoes for it, still have to force Isearch out of the Chinese market?

3721 like a rat in the street, everyone shouted, Robin Li didn't put it in his eyes. Isearch was a mortal malady of Baidu. How can google dominate China's Internet search field without defeating Isearch?

"Mr. Williams, don't you just come to visit Baidu today? Is there anything else? " Robin Li deliberately split the topic and stopped talking about Isearch, so as not to remind Henry.

"Oh, I've come to inform you that 3721 may be acquired by Time Warner AOL!"

"3721 to be acquired by Time Warner AOL?" Robin Li did not repeat it, but his face was shocked. Compared with Time Warner AOL, 3721 is just a small company. Baidu is not afraid to compete with it. But with Time Warner AOL, Baidu's pressure is bound to increase! At the moment, Isearch is walking on the road to death. Robin Li's heart is darkly cool. I never thought that another big international company would enter the Chinese market

"Yes, three days ago, Time Warner AOL officially launched an invitation to buy 3721, and Zhou Hongyi meant to sell 3721!" Henry nodded.

"3721 is developing rapidly. Why did Zhou Hongyi choose to sell it?" Robin Li shook his head and wondered. If he was, he would not sell.

When Henry heard this, he couldn't help laughing: "Zhou Hongyi has been hailed as" the father of rogue software "by Chinese netizens and peers. This reputation is really not very good. He always says that he wants to" bleach "... Of course, this is not the main reason. Although 3721 is despised, it is an indisputable fact that it has a high market share, so in the first quarter of 2001, 3721 has made a profit! The most important reason for Zhou Hongyi to give up 3721 is actually Baidu and CNNIC. You have brought great pressure on Zhou Hongyi, especially CNNIC with Chinese official background. You know, in China, since ancient times, when the people did not fight with the officials, Zhou Hongyi was afraid... "

(I've caught a cold these two days. I feel much better when I go to the hospital to get water. I'll be back to normal tomorrow.)