"Come on, come on, meet nineteen. Make an appointment under the silver moonlight, meet in warm affection..."

Song Weiyang sat in front of the computer in his room and could hear the singing coming from a house next door.

As DVDs continue to grab the market and the competition among VCD manufacturers intensifies, the price of VCD machines is getting cheaper and cheaper. So, some workers in Xianjiu Group can afford it. Then, two speakers like pillars are treed, and once the song is played at home, you can hear it in the entire community.

I guess someone was upset by the quarrel, so he simply used poison to fight the poison, and the sound was louder, and he even used the subwoofer: "I always want to confess to you, how heroic I feel. I always want to tell you, how much I love life..."

The two heroes compete for the hegemony quickly became the Three Kingdoms: "Oh~ the happy gongs and drums beat the joy of the year, the beautiful dances bring joy every day..."

Song Weiyang could only get up and close the glass window. If he continued to listen like this, he would almost become neurasthenia.

I have to say that China's piracy industry is very developed and its work efficiency is extremely high. Before the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, the songs that became popular this year's Spring Festival Gala were actually made into VCD records, and they were sold to small cities like Rongping. The genuine records have not yet been released!

Song Weiyang wanted to do a market research at this time and study the production and sales channels of pirated VCD records, and maybe it can be used as a graduation thesis.

On the Spring Festival Gala of 30th, those who do pirated the songs must record the songs that night, and then convert them into VCD format overnight. Then they are mass-produced at the factory, then shipped to all directions, and distributed them layer by layer, and finally appeared on the streets of large, medium and small cities.

These steps were completed by pirated merchants in three or four days, which is a major business miracle around the world!

The phone ringing suddenly rang, and Ding Ming called it.

"I paid New Year's greetings on the first day of the lunar month, and I paid New Year's greetings on the fourth day of the lunar month?" Song Weiyang said with a smile.

Ding Ming said: "Old Song, I received an email yesterday, which was sent from the United States. Someone is promoting a search engine, and its core computing method is pagerank. I communicated with the company's search engine research and development team, and it was exactly what we needed. So, after the eighth day of the lunar month, I led a team to the United States for an inspection."

"Are you sure it's a pagerank?" Song Weiyang was a little confused. That's Google's core technology. Google relies on that thing to make it bigger.

Ding Ming said: "It's indeed called pagerank. I once posted on a technical forum in the United States, saying that I wanted to recruit American search engine experts and left my company's email address. I guess someone came to sell technology when he saw the post."

Song Weiyang asked: "Did you contact the other party?"

Ding Ming said: "I sent an email, but the other party has not replied yet."

Song Weiyang said: "Continue to keep in touch, apply for your visa, and prepare to go to the United States."

"Okay, I'll call you if there is news." Ding Ming said.

Song Weiyang thought to himself: Is this a butterfly effect? ​​If the founder of Google sold its core technology, can Google still grow bigger? Or, will the company Google be established?

Actually, it's not a butterfly effect.

The two founders of Google developed a search engine at the end of 1997, but the name is not Google, but backrub (the predecessor of Google).

Larry Page and Sergey Brin are really great. Ding Ming's R&D team, seven or eight people worked for more than half a year, and finally created the "intelligent search engine", which is not very useful. There are only two people who use their spare time to create the backrub search engine in less than three months, and also developed an incomplete version of the pagerank algorithm.

After creating a search engine and developing the pagerank algorithm, the two of them had the first reaction not to start a company, but to authorize the technology. Since no company was willing to cooperate, they decided to sell it directly, and the price was only $1.6 million.

No one is willing to buy it!

Then I had to start my own company, so the later Google came into being.

The future third-ranked Google employee Scott Hassan is a friend of Larry and Sergey. He is helping the two sell search engines and found George Bell, the CEO of excite (one of the mainstream search engines in the United States).

George Bell used his own search engine to search for the keyword "internet" and found a bunch of messy results. Then he searched with backrub (future Google) to find a bunch of very reasonable content, which shows that Google is better used.

But George Bell was upset and said, "We don't want your search engines, we don't want people to find what they want because we want people to stay on our website."

Yes, Google search engine is so easy to use, so we will definitely not use it!

It may sound ridiculous, but this is the mainstream commercial Internet concept in 1997: portal websites are the fundamentals, only when there is visits, they can make money, and they can raise funds, go public and refinancing. If netizens can easily search for content, then what else can they do with portal websites?

The larger the portal website, the more it resists excellent search engines, because it is afraid that its users will run away.

Even the search engine companies with the best reputation and top three usage rates in the United States will fully transform into portals in 1998 and no longer invest in search engines. The result of this was that Li Yanhong resigned and returned to China to establish Baidu.

"Dear, have you gone out?" Chen Tao called and asked.

"I've gone downstairs." Song Weiyang picked up his coat and went out.

He wanted to drive to pick up Chen Tao, have lunch together, and go to the movies in the afternoon.

On the way, Ding Ming called again: "There was an email from the United States. He said that his name is Scott Hassan, a programmer, backrub search engine developed by two of his friends. They want to authorize Sohu to use, and the annual licensing fee is $100,000. If exclusively authorized, $500,000 a year will be signed once a year."

Song Weiyang said: "If you ask them if they sell it, you must win the pagerank algorithm."

"Wait a minute, I want his icq and are communicating online." Ding Ming said.

Two minutes later, Ding Ming said again: "The other party said he could sell the pagerank algorithm, and the price was 3 million US dollars."

"Buy it!" Song Weiyang said excitedly.

"The company doesn't have that much money," said Ding Ming.

"I'll pay!" Song Weiyang said.

Ding Ming said: "I'll ask again."

More than ten minutes passed, Chen Tao had already gotten in the car, and Ding Ming called: "I asked him about the patent situation. The pagerank algorithm has no patents. This person was vague, as if there was something wrong. It wasn't it that he stole other people's technology, right?"

Song Weiyang really doesn't understand the inside story, but he knows that Google's core technology is definitely not stolen, so he instructed: "You go to the United States as soon as possible and you must buy the technology."

"Okay, I'll go apply for a visa tomorrow." Ding Ming's thought was to inquire about the situation first.

If it weren't foresight by the time traveler, the ghost would have bought the pagerank algorithm, and there was no final and complete version. Because this thing has partial overlap with Li Yanhong's patent, it was delayed until three years later that it was approved by the US Patent Office.

If Song Weiyang bought the algorithm, it is estimated that pagerank will never be approved by the US Patent Office.

But that's enough.
Chapter completed!