The search function is a necessity for all software products. Every content app or national-level app has such a function. WeChat has it, Paybay has it, and TouRongHui has it.
These apps actually have a powerful search engine at the bottom, and their technology is not much inferior to that of independent search engines.
There is nothing wrong with Ruixiang doing search, but it is very difficult to truly become independent and get a share of the search PPC market.
Zhang Yida knew the reasoning behind this very well and did not want to open up the situation as soon as Ruixiang Search came up.
In addition to meeting the own needs of its products, it is more about retaining a seed and slowly cultivating it to grow.
"Why didn't Qiandu react at all?"
Lin Zhenyang walked into Zhang Yida's office and muttered, "This shouldn't be the case. Are they not afraid of us subverting them at all?"
Zhang Yida asked him to sit down and asked Song Caiwei to pour two cups of tea.
While sipping tea, he said to Lin Zhenyang, "It's so easy to be afraid of someone with such a high market share. Qiandu is a tiger that can't defeat the enemy even if it dies."
Lin Zhenyang nodded. Qiandu has annual revenue of hundreds of billions and holds more than 60% market share in the search market.
In addition to Ahri, Penguin and Ruixiang, there is also Goudong in China, and no other company can match the revenue of Qiandu.
In terms of influence, Ruixiang and Qiandu are also on par.
This was last year when Ruixiang merged with Zhonghe and launched a series of big moves. Otherwise, there would still be a gap between Ruixiang and Qiandu.
"You are right, Qiandu is a skinny camel bigger than a horse. They have been running the search for twenty years. Without some new technological breakthroughs, it is difficult to threaten them."
Zhang Yida nodded and smiled. He was afraid that Lin Zhenyang and the others would be dazzled by their achievements in the past two years and thus underestimate the enemy.
"Let's develop slowly. We still have a lot of homework to make up for."
Speaking of this, Zhang Yida remembered something and warned: "Let the search department pay attention and not directly quote Qiandu's search results."
Lin Zhenyang pinched his eyebrows, "This... is a bit embarrassing! As you know, our content is still not rich enough, which greatly affects the search results.
If you want users to find it easy to use and use it for a long time, it is useless without advertisements like dog-skin plasters.
After all, the accuracy of checking things is the first priority for users, and the rest of the user experience can be ranked second.”
Zhang Yida sighed, "I know that. I'm afraid you will directly quote Qiandu's search results and be caught. That would be so embarrassing!"
Lin Zhenyang shook his head, "This can't happen, we are very careful."
Zhang Yida felt that this was underestimating Qiandu. They had many means, so he asked: "What if Qiandu puts the logo and anti-counterfeiting mark? It is directly included in the content. If you are careless, the evidence will be in their hands.
It’s like copying a paper, copying the names of people together.”
Lin Zhenyang took a sharp breath, "Qiandu won't be so cheating, right?"
Zhang Yida waved his hand, "Okay, hurry up and ask the search department to check. Don't wait for others to come to your door. You will be in a hurry. If you lose someone, you will lose the battle."
He was also preparing for a rainy day. In his previous life, Toutiao was tricked by Qiandu like this. It was really embarrassing for him.
Lin Zhenyang turned around and left. He wanted to go and inquire in person. If this happened, he had to prevent it as soon as possible.
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Zhang Yida sat together with the person in charge of Xiaorui Speaker, Sess head-mounted display equipment, and more than a dozen scientists from smart city, smart agriculture, and Internet of Things laboratories to hold a seminar.
sses is the company in Pengcheng that makes VR head-mounted display equipment. It was controlled by Digital Domain last year.
With the completion of the privatization of Digital Domain, the holding parent company of sses has also become Ruixiang.
CEO and founder Wang Jie is happy about such changes. After all, the first echelons of VR hardware are all hard-core, with big capital behind them.
As she had been struggling to maintain the company before, had it not been for the VR bubble, Ssses would not have given up controlling stake to Digital Domain for 240 million yuan.
Now that the holding company has become a leading company, it should have the opportunity to make a big impact, right?
This was her first time meeting Zhang Yida, and she had been communicating with Lan Lan before.
Zhang Yida was speaking, and she and others present listened quietly.
"Last year Ali Cloud hosted the Yunqi Conference. I wonder if anyone paid attention to it?"
Zhang Yida briefly told a few sentences and suddenly asked such a question.
Zhou Feng, as the CTO of the group and the president of Ruixiang Research Institute, also attended the meeting.
He nodded and said, "If you pay attention, Ahri is really unparalleled in the public cloud market, but this is also because they focused on this track first.
As early as 2010, at the "IT Leadership Summit" in Pengcheng, the three heads of BAT talked about cloud computing. At that time, neither Bonima nor Robin Li believed that this technology would be implemented in the near future.
But Jack Ma, in his usual madman manner, shouted that a world of clouds was coming.
Now everyone has seen that Wang Jian was elected as an academician and Ali became the number one cloud in Asia and the third largest cloud in the world."
Zhang Yida nodded, “In addition to cloud computing, Ali’s IoT business unit also surfaced at last year’s Yunqi Conference.
IoT’s strategic positioning in Ali is alongside e-commerce, finance, logistics, and cloud computing.
To describe the Internet of Things in simple words: if traffic lights are connected to the Internet, the traffic flow can be adjusted intelligently;
If household appliances are connected to the Internet, they can automatically cook and wash clothes for you;
If factory equipment is connected to the Internet, production can be automatically adjusted and efficiency improved.
Now foreign technology giants Microsoft, Google, Apple, and domestic BAT, Huawei, and Rice are all squeezing into this track.
Our group naturally wants to make breakthroughs in these frontier fields. At present, we have settled in the two major fields of smart cities, smart agriculture, and smart life.
Smart manufacturing and smart cars have not yet been involved, and are slightly behind other giants.
But it doesn’t matter. Before, we needed to focus on other sectors, and the progress of the Internet of Things was slowed down a bit.
Now that our hands are gradually freed up, we naturally have to catch up."
Zhou Feng nodded in agreement, although he also admired technology and wished that the company would immediately become a world-shaking technology giant.
But in the final analysis, the establishment time is too short, and it has been fighting on the Internet.
After fighting his way out, he started fierce competition with BATJ.
However, he also knows that Mr. Zhang has always been extremely generous in his investment in technology, and he definitely has no intention of being a rich man.
Take IoT as an example. Although it cannot compare with Ali, it has also won a number of smart city construction projects. Smart agriculture has cooperated with several industry giants such as Xinwang Group, Muyuan Group, and Zhengda Group.
Smart Life has just entered the market with the launch of Xiaorui and has also established cooperation with home appliance giants such as Gree and Midea.
"The Internet of Things is divided into three layers: perception layer, network layer, and application layer."
Zhang Yida said with a smile, "The perception layer is composed of various sensors, which are equivalent to the nerve endings of human eyes, ears, nose, throat and skin. They are the source of identifying objects and collecting information for the Internet of Things. Its main function is to identify objects and collect information.
We don't do this!
The application layer is the Internet of Things and B-side user interfaces, which are combined with industry needs to realize intelligent applications of the Internet of Things.
We are currently working on this area, but it is just an introduction. We will gradually open it up and introduce developers to cooperate."
Speaking of this, Zhang Yida said in a serious tone, "Only the network layer, which is the operating system of IoT, we must grasp this and strive to launch our own standards.
This allows hardware manufacturers to deeply customize according to our standards, and allows software developers to develop with confidence without worrying about being cut off by the system."
Zhou Feng took over the topic, "Yes, if we want to do it, we must be the Android of the IoT world."