Chapter 283 Didn't pay attention to the rat
The concept of search that people are talking about now only existed in the 1990s.
There was no World Wide Web at that time, but file transfers were still very frequent. Because there were too many files, it was inconvenient to search, so Archie was born. Even though it is not a real search engine, users must accurately enter the file name to find the FTP address. , but at the time, it was already a very handy tool.
With the emergence of Archie, various retrieval tools have emerged in an endless stream, and the meaning of these tools is to save people time when searching for information, but after the rapid development of the Internet, these non-civilian tools are obviously Unable to meet the needs of the general public, Yahoo has changed the world.
Yahoo is indeed not a search engine, but its existence has allowed more people to see the charm of the Internet.
As Steve Jobs said, many users simply don't know what they need.
Yahoo, on the other hand, allows users who don't know their own needs to see the possibility of asking.
Since the public knows that Zhangzui is not a dream, there is a market for search engines.
In this case, Infoseek was born.
In the beginning, Infoseek was just a humble search engine, and even the user interface and additional services were copied from Yahoo. After signing a cooperation agreement with Netscape in December 1995, its market share grew wildly.
It's different from those guys who only care about the present and don't care about the future.
Infoseek knew from the very beginning that they grew up by sucking the blood of Netscape. After leaving Netscape, there was only one possibility of sudden death. So, while stabilizing their market position, they also recruited talents.
At the Silicon Valley Academic Conference in 1996, Robin Li was dug up by them, and Robin Li, who wrote hyperlink analysis, lived up to expectations. He led Infoseek to complete the compilation of the second-generation search engine and launched the first hyperlink on the market. The search engines analyzed, and later, search engines including Google, all refer to his ideas.
Because of this, Infoseek also successfully sat on the throne of the first search engine industry.
"Time" magazine called them "innovators", and they didn't give them for nothing.
But it is a pity that the world's number one search engine was killed by Disney.
Since people in this era still don't understand what is called 'bidding ranking', all search engines are basically operated by burning money. The more pages the search engine crawls, the more it will cost to collect. All are fixed remuneration, so the more websites indexed by search engines, the more the company will lose.
As a result, almost all search engines choose to transform towards portal websites.
Even though they know that Yahoo is the most powerful portal at the moment, and MSN is the second most popular, and the market is already saturated, they still dive into it, because if they don’t drill in, they will die suddenly. If they drill in, they can continue to melt Capital, lingering for a while.
No way, who made the profit model of the portal known?
In this case, Infoseek, who didn’t want to die suddenly, didn’t want to continue his life, but just wanted to cash out and leave the scene, hit it off with the rich and powerful Disney.
Disney thinks that if it can swallow ABC, it can become a portal website, and Infoseek also thinks that it is the best search engine on the market, so the plan to change the search engine into a portal website follows Disney's capital injection officially started, and at the same time, Disney stopped what the search engine should do...
That is to prevent RobinLi from continuing to include web pages.
A search engine no longer includes web pages, so what is the significance of the existence of this search engine?
The biggest selling point of the search engine is that it allows the general public to find what they want, and when this core selling point is self-castrated by Disney, Infoseek is actually dead.
So, Robin Li, who couldn't stand all this, took the money and walked away.
When he replaced all the Infoseek stocks in his hands with Disney stocks, and when the price soared from five yuan per share to one hundred yuan, he and his wife returned to China. The first thing they did after returning home was to write a book called "Silicon Valley Business Warfare". "book of.
And in the years before Du Niang was created, he complained about Disney's disgusting behavior on DoNews every day.
Who wasn’t a keyboard warrior when he was young?
As soon as Jianzheng came out, Disney was dissed in a hurry.
As he expected, it took Disney only one year to make Infoseek lose the world's number one throne, and it took only two and a half years to kill Infoseek and the newly created Go.com.
It is no exaggeration to say that without Disney’s generous help, Infoseek may still lose, but it will definitely not let the other companies win so easily, and those winners are really—
‘You fell down before I could do anything. '
Just like after the merger of AOL and Time Warner, AOL's market value has shrunk by 98%.
The Hollywood media giants have killed many well-developed leading Internet companies, and it is precisely because of their attacks that other companies have the opportunity to grow.
As the saying goes, "buy football in reverse, and villas rely on the sea", "invest in reverse, never go upstairs"
Ma Ke, the rich man who is now following Mr. Xu, calls Teng Wanwan a mob, because most of the crossovers have failed, and the crossovers that those guys think about are just for their own companies. Just a moat.
I do things with the mindset that if I win, I will make a lot of money, and if I lose, I will not lose money, so how can I succeed?
And invest with these guys...
Emmmm...
This feeling is like the aunt who sells Guilin rice noodles chatting with Pipijia about stocks...
It's really reliable for Mother Tete!
Therefore, when Roland learned that Disney, who was developing a portal website, was a little flustered, he had already forgotten all about Du Niang, the forty thieves, and the penguin who didn't like old godmothers, his first reaction was to ask .
"What does my search engine have to do with Disney!"
The second reaction is to cry poor.
"As the world's second largest media group, why are they staring at me, a person who can't even make the Forbes list?"
The third reaction is to pretend to be stupid.
“I’m really just helping Amazon find a search engine provider to work with!”
"He...tui!" Roland's behavior of talking nonsense with his eyes open caused the truck driver to spit. He squatted under the sun umbrella and waited for the set, rolled his eyes, and said with disgust: "I don't know what you are like yet. People? Is it interesting to pretend like this?"
"How much money will you make with those shares in Yahoo? Shall I call and ask Ronald to do the math for you?"
"I'm not Forbes who relies on guesswork to evaluate his wealth! I have witnesses!"
"All right, all right..." Looking at the old man who was about to take out his phone, Roland put his hands down and said, "What do you want?"
"Lend me some money." Roland stopped pretending, and the old man had a showdown.
Hearing what he said, Roland frowned immediately, glanced at him strangely, and asked, "How much do you want to borrow? The dividends from "Titanic" will come down by the end of the year. If you want to do something, wait for the dividends." Get down and do it, can't you?"
Roland thought that the truck driver wanted to build a deep-sea submersible to challenge the Mariana Trench, but the truck driver thought—"Linda and I can't go on..."
Paused, then said: "We are going to divorce..."
have to…
As soon as these words came out, Roland immediately fell silent.
The relationship between James Cameron and Linda Hamilton is simply a mystery.
No one knows how they got it, but everyone knows that the relationship between them is the fuse of the divorce between James Cameron and Catherine Bigelow. The two have been in love since "Terminator 2", In 1993, Linda Hamilton gave birth to a daughter for the old man. She did not get married in a low-key manner until the summer of 1997, but in February 1999, she officially announced her divorce.
The process of the two of them falling in love, having children, getting married, and divorcing is quite confusing. No one knows why their marriage lasted no more than two years after having a child, but—
Roland knew that, as usual, it was still the old man who cheated in marriage.
"When did you get hooked up with Suzy Amis?"
Roland touched the old man's pocket, and took out the cigarette and lighter very familiarly.
Put a light in the opponent's mouth, and then sucked himself.
"What you said is too ugly." The old man shook his head, took two puffs, and then flicked the ashes off the cigarette butt, "The main reason is that Linda refused to quit, and Susie...she was going to finish filming "Judgment Day" "After that, I retired..."
Suzy Amis is the granddaughter of Ruth in "Titanic".
Maybe not as handsome as the old man's previous predecessors, but he is obedient.
If the old man told her to go east, she would never go west; if the old man told her to go north, she would never go south.
And this is actually the weakness of many men.
Good-looking and obedient, really suitable for marriage.
"Okay, how much do you want to borrow?" Roland nodded, and since the deal was done, he didn't ask further.
"Have you signed a prenuptial agreement? How much is the breakup fee?"
"The house in Los Angeles is shared with her. The child's annual living expenses are one million, and it will be thirteen million here until the age of eighteen. Then leave an education fund for the child and compensate her. The total adds up About fifty million..."
"The house can be transferred directly, and the living expenses are paid annually. Only her compensation and education funds must be taken out now. So, lend me 10 million? I will pay you back after Fox's share is settled."
"I don't want to take the sharing contract to the bank for a pledge loan, it's too uneconomical..."
That's right, for others, analyzing Roland's investment trends and guessing his investment ideas is the most important thing to do, but for truck drivers, borrowing after hearing the news is the most realistic way to talk ah!
He does not engage in investment, and he does not sell information. In this case, he will not interfere with whatever Roland wants to do.
At most, after Roland agreed to borrow money, he showed his elder demeanor and asked with concern whether these stares were important.
"It's okay, let them stare if they want to stare..."
"I can't see any effect anyway..."
What Roland said was the truth, because Disney's stalking was useless to him.
Without RobinLi, Disney would not be able to create a search engine, and even with RobinLi, if there is no way to monetize it, the bigger the search engine, the more it will lose.
Disney has money, but it does not mean that they can bear endless losses, and Microsoft, which has the ability to be a search engine in the market and can also bear endless losses, is now impossible to do things.
After all, home consoles and Yahoo are two fat pieces that can see ways to make money.
Give up two pieces of fat to fiddle with search engines?
Isn't this head kicked by a donkey?
As for the parallelism of the three lines, this is even more of a joke.
If they, who are being pestered by the anti-monopoly investigation, announce the binding of the search engine and the portal at this time, then...
Microsoft will definitely be dismantled.
So, even if a lot of things happen and Disney targets him, Roland is not in a hurry.
The Internet is not the lifeblood of Disney.
Even if it's gone, I don't feel bad.
Even if they feel distressed, they will not act like demons casually.
Because they could see the nuclear weapons in Roland's hands...
"The Lord of the Rings" only signed a co-production and distribution agreement with Disney, and Roland still owns the rights to the toys derived from the film and television.
Not only that, as long as Roland is willing to spend money, Carl Icahn can smash Disney's stock price just like he beat Time Warner.
And if Disney dares to overturn the table, Berkshire Hathaway, which holds Disney shares and board seats, and vigorously promotes the development of "RandK", will not sit there and watch.
Capital…
We are always in a group...
Fighting alone will only be swallowed up by others.
...
Since Roland, the person involved, didn't take Disney's stalking to heart, everything that followed would be the same.
Filming should be filming, playing should be playing, eating should be eating, working should be working.
Until September 4th, Google, which was stared at by Disney and Microsoft, was finally established.
As the contract officially came into effect, Roland became more relaxed. The excitement that enveloped his body made him face the whole world with a smile.
And this kind of behavior of discharging everyone also earned him countless slaps.
Whenever he communicated with those actresses with a smile, Kate, who was stationed in the group, would slap him.
Roland in a good mood will turn back and then—
The laughing and joking noise created a different landscape for the crew.
Although Kate never lost and Roland never won, it didn't matter.
As long as it can kill a dog, that's fine.
In such a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere, "Spider-Man 2 and 3", which are already commercial films, have not encountered any bottlenecks, and when "Rush Hour" is released on September 18, it has a good relationship with everyone. The good Roland invited the whole group to watch the movie on a private basis. I have to say that funny body parts are really the easiest kind of performance to draw distance between the two parties.
Especially Jackie Chan's serious humor filled the theater with laughter.
Even on September 15th, Hurricane George, with a wind speed exceeding 160 mph, hit America. In just half a month, it caused 4,000 deaths and brought at least A loss of 10 billion, but the box office of "Rush Hour" is still high. The 33 million in the first weekend scared me to death, and the global box office is expected to exceed 200 million valuations, which made Hollywood see Chinese Kungfu once again. Influence.
At this time, Roland's old friend came to the door with a Chinese Kungfu book...
Note: ① Robin Li complained about Disney many times, and he thought it was Disney who ruined Soxin. Because of the existence of Disney, his idea of ??making a mailbox for Soxin was rejected, and Disney paid only 70 million (the first capital injection in April 1998). Then, after Disney officially injected capital, Soxin's search business immediately stagnated (acquired in June 1998). Yes, the point is that this transcendence is completely free. Not only that, the brand value of Soxin was also completely ignored by Disney, and they had to create Go, which was named by Michael Eisner himself. In order to promote Go, Disney also made a show operation, that is, let Soxin’s original URL point to Go. , and doing so directly made many users think that the original search engine website was no longer there, and they opened portals they didn’t need, and the search letter exploded in situ (he published these contents in real name around 2001 on On DoNews, I saw his blog post. He said at the time that these things would never happen again to Du Niang, and then he did what he said, and it really didn’t happen again, but everything that followed...) ②James Cameron still It's really because Linda Hamilton didn't quit the circle and divorced her. It also has something to do with Spielberg. Linda thinks that Spielberg's wife can make movies. Why can't she make movies? Not only that, but also He took the initiative to cooperate with the other party, and then the truck driver blew up and divorced her, and then Spielberg's wife stopped filming.
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