Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 1053 Using static braking (4k)

On the evening of June 6, Baidu announced the launch of the "Baidu Questions and Answers" community, and the traffic and "Baidu Zhizhi" are interoperable.

Baidu created a question-and-answer product called "Baidu Zhizhi" in 2005, with the purpose of combining and supplementing the lack of engine functions, and also accumulated a lot of users.

However, Zhihu took advantage of the characteristics of quick response after several incidents, strong community atmosphere, and more professionals mixed in to catch up from behind and become a very distinctive SNS question-and-answer community in China.

With the development of Zhihu, this feature has gradually made some people get used to searching here.

Now, Baidu has created a competing website with a very clear name, "Baidu Q&A".

Fang Zhuo briefly browsed the new website, and his first reaction was that although it claims to be interoperable with "Baidu Zhizhi", it does have quite a few overlapping functions. If it continues to develop in the future, it may need to be integrated together.

The competition in the early stage is focused on Zhihu, and the scale can be unified in the later stage when it becomes bigger and stronger.

That night, the issue of Baidu's war with Yike was still on Zhihu's hot list, and the news of competing websites hit again.

This time, not only Xiong Xiaoge, but also many Zhihu users complained.

No, the two of you are at war, why do you Baidu tilt the artillery fire to Zhihu?
Why don't you make a Baidu Weibo?

Why don't you make a Baidu mobile phone?

Such questions were answered at the barbecue party at Fangzhuo Villa the next day.

Xiong Xiaoge, the co-founder of Zhihu, flew to Shanghai to meet Fang Zhuo's old team. He also had a barbecue along the way and chatted about the current competition.

He complained about Baidu's surprise attack and suspension of cooperation in person, expressing his innocence again.

"Mr. Fang, Baidu should go after Yike, why are you looking for Zhihu!"

Fang Zhuo laughed without hesitation: "Little bear, don't you understand? Just squeeze the persimmon softly."

Xiong Xiaoge: "..."

Su Wei, Zhou Xin, Yu Hong and others all laughed, Xiong is always an old friend... But why, it makes people happy when an old friend is deflated.

"No, no, Zhihu really has a lot of traffic converted from Baidu. If it stops there, Yike will give us money." Xiong Xiaoge is different from the crowd's mentality of watching the excitement, he is very serious .

Fang Zhuo asked back: "Why did Yike vote? Do you know of any business model that can be opened up?"

One of the reasons for the rapid development of Zhihu is also the good reputation of users. The page here is simple, the atmosphere is strong, there are no advertisements, and you can still see big names from various companies when you have nothing to do. It is a paradise.

However, it is another matter to invest money in the promised land.

Xiong Xiaoge was stunned: "Yike is Zhihu's shareholder, model, this model, as long as we add advertisements, we will get through."

"Then you are so optimistic about Zhihu, why are you investing in IDG yourself?" Fang Zhuo said ruthlessly, "You are one of the most famous investors in Huaxia."

Xiong Xiaoge: "..."

It seems that this business model of Zhihu... If it is blocked by Baidu, Zhihu's next promotion and publicity and many costs will rise sharply. IDG's investment...

No, no, IDG is not as rich and powerful as Mr. Fang.

He felt stunned and absurd: "Hey, Mr. Fang, hey, Mr. Su, is there any reason for you to judge the reason? I'm asshole, I know this is an innocent disaster! It was completely affected! Do you know? I hit When I called, they directly said that I belonged to Fang Zhuo, and the malice did not come for me, Xiong Xiaoge, but for him, Fang Zhuo!"

The courtyard was full of joy again, and the smell of barbecue became stronger.

Su Wei was already out of breath from laughing, holding Yu Hong's arm, forced to be serious but couldn't be serious: "Mr. Xiong, one person does things and one person is responsible. You don't know how to offend Mr. Li. Don't do it to Mr. Fang." rely."

Yu Hong asked straightforwardly: "Yes, Mr. Xiong, you are the one who said that. Do you have a recording of the phone call?"

"I make a phone call and record it? My surname is not Fang!" Xiong Xiaoge swore that this was the most aggrieved two days in his career for decades.

Yu Hong shrugged: "Then there is no other way, and there is no evidence or anything, so we are not easy to persuade."

After she said this, she and Su Wei laughed together.

Fang Zhuo took out a bunch of chicken wings and handed them to Xiong Xiaoge: "Mr. Xiong, it's not in vain. The former richest man in the world baked the chicken wings himself, hey."

Xiong Xiaoge refused to answer: "I don't want chicken wings, I want money!"

"Talking about money hurts feelings. When I was short of money, I didn't run over to you to force you to invest money. Investments are all voluntary, and you must never force them." Fang Zhuo is very serious.

Xiong Xiaoge has to doubt what happened in the past years, did he vote for it willingly?

He was lost in thought.

Zhou Xin handed his daughter Zhou Keke a bunch of squid, and said with a smile: "Mr. Xiong, you are always investing, and you have started your own business, so you can understand our feelings. This will definitely promote your investment career in the future. "

"You just read my jokes, right?" Xiong Xiaoge said helplessly.

He really likes Zhihu's model and spent time building it up. Now he naturally doesn't want to see it disappear under Baidu's offensive.

"I think it's okay. Look at Baidu's next move. We switched to Sogou here. It directly cut off the search results on the content side. It seems to be a sharp weapon in a short time, but it is a big deal for a search engine. A kind of self-injury." Fang Zhuo ate the chicken wings carefully, and continued, "When I was in Lin'an, I said that the era of mobile Internet is coming. not good."

This time Baidu is not only targeting Zhihu, but also Sina Portal, Sina Weibo and Tesco.

Among them, Sina is one of the most famous portal websites in China, Weibo is the most popular social platform nowadays, and Tesco is also a well-known e-commerce website. These three brands have already become famous.

Fang Zhuo believes that Baidu's offensive strategy this time is questionable.

However, it is not uncommon for big companies to blackmail each other. Today’s Taobao and Baidu are also blackmailing each other. A year or two ago, the two companies had a war of words accusing each other. Part of the reason is that Taobao wants to control its own Buyers and sellers also lie in the C2C that Baidu ends up doing direct competition.

However, Baidu's C2C is not even as famous as Penguin's Paipai.com.

Many people don't even know that Baidu launched a C08C e-commerce platform called "Yeah" in 2.

"Yeah" shouted the resounding slogan of "surpassing Taobao in 3 years" at the beginning of its launch, which once caused Ali's stock price to plummet, and then... there is no more.

Following Penguin's collapse of e-commerce, Baidu also quietly failed to gain any C2C market share.

These two companies have a lot of traffic, but they haven’t done much in the field of e-commerce. It really makes people in the industry quite puzzled, and it also makes people respect the two leading brands “Taobao” and “E-buy”. .

"Little bear, I think that if Baidu blocks it, it will block it, and now it will remain unchanged to respond to all changes. It may hope to have a vigorous competition that resounds across the Internet, but we can't do what it wants." Fang said. Zhuo took the juice and pondered for a while, "It's okay if Taobao is blocked. I don't think there will be any serious consequences for Sina and Tesco."

Xiong Xiaoge reminded: "There is also Zhihu."

"Oh yes, there is also Zhihu, continue to create features and continue to develop. Baidu is a PC. This year, Yike has joined forces with a number of brand manufacturers to vigorously promote Android smartphones. This is a mobile terminal. Let's work hard together. Let's see who has the last laugh." Fang Zhuo said calmly, "At such a juncture, there will be competition coming out of nowhere, stop with silence."

Is this a time for Baidu to target competition?

Yes, but it is also a part of the octopus-style expansion of Dachang.

Fang Zhuo believes that if you look at it from the latter perspective, you don't need to be nervous.

For example, Baidu, Penguin, and even Yike, it is common for them to expand and compete naturally after they grow in size.

In Lin'an before, many media said that the "Yi Ke Department" was going to try the sword BAT, and this year there will be large and small turmoil and wars. Although this incident from Baidu is a bit beyond Fang Zhuo's expectations, he has already figured it out. main contradiction.

As long as the Android hardware sells well, the longer the time, the easier it will be to attack and defend.

The same applies to competition with penguins.

Yixin, which will be launched within this year, is based on the drive of the number of Android phone users.

"Mr. Fang, if you want to stop with silence, I'm afraid that Zhihu will be killed by accident." Xiong Xiaoge stood on his own standpoint, and really had to think more about Zhihu.

Judging from Zhihu’s product, this is the giant’s traffic attack!
Xiong Xiaoge suddenly understood the reputation of the two giants in the industry, and this time he really felt the same way.

"Death means that your website is not good enough, natural selection, survival of the fittest." Fang Zhuo handed Xiaoxiong another skewer of barbecue.

Xiong Xiaoge took it this time, took a bite, and asked, "It's not that you don't want to save him, but you don't save him right now. We'll see later, right?"

Fang Zhuo hesitantly didn't answer.

Xiong Xiaoge was eating barbecue, seeing Mr. Fang's attitude, he was really confused.

He observed the atmosphere of the gathering in the courtyard, considered the situation of Zhihu under the entire Yike strategy, and fought again: "Zhihu can also be a part of the YMS ecology, Mr. Fang, I think it is necessary to save Yes, even if you don’t want to be rescued, don’t send out such a signal that you can’t be rescued.”

Fang Zhuo heard some meaning and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Xiong Xiaoge didn't answer this time either. IDG is inconvenient to vote, and Yi Ke is unwilling to vote here...then...

When I came to Shanghai, I wanted to visit Wang Fengyi, a well-known investor in Huaxia, just to exchange investment experience.

As we get older and encounter more troubles, since we have started an enterprise from investors, we can learn a little bit from Mr. Fang.

Xiong Xiaoge made up his mind, and left in a hurry before even finishing the barbecue.

"Why did Mr. Xiong go?" Su Wei leaned over and asked.

Fang Zhuo was a little puzzled, and pondered for a while: "It's nothing more than looking for money, um... No way, I heard that Qingzi has been active in Shencheng recently, so he must be looking for him, right?"

He guessed casually, Qingzi still had some money, and Xiaoxiong had dealt with him a lot.

Su Wei smiled and said, "It's no good, your side is already in chaos."

Soon, however, she stopped laughing.

The barbecue is not over, and E-buy will make a latest report.

Taobao is convincingly considering setting up a promotional festival in the second half of the year.

This month’s 618 situation is very good. Taobao is undoubtedly the number one e-commerce company in China. Now, taking advantage of Baidu and Yike’s igniting the smoke, they suddenly released tit-for-tat activities in the second half of the year. The signal is much more severe than Zhihu’s.

Su Wei frowned halfway through receiving the call, and then found Fang Zhuo after putting down the phone, and made a proposal: "Since IDG is not easy to vote for Zhihu, why not do this, exchange it, let Yike vote for Zhihu, let IDG came to chase after E-buy."

"Are you really a fool?" Fang Zhuo glanced at Teacher Xiao Su.

"Now I understand the feeling of hurting the fish in the pond." Su Wei said seriously.

Fang Zhuo shrugged, and gave the same reply: "Braking still, don't be in a hurry."

Su Wei: "..."

She looked back at Yu Hong who was also smiling, and sincerely made a wish to the moon in the night sky: "Is there any more? Is there any news? I want to see Yi Ke's competition, and I want to see how this man reacts."

Yu Hong suppressed a smile: "That won't work, you have to see the reaction you want on the ice core."

The old god Fang Zhuo was there, so he didn't care about the teasing of these two people.

Time is getting late, and the old entrepreneurial team has rarely had such an opportunity to get together in recent years. The content of the chat gradually changed from business to interesting. Yu Hong talked a lot about the cultural differences encountered in the United States in the past few years. People talk about strange things, but Zhou Xin talked about his sea fishing experience and successfully kicked himself out of the chat team, so he could only let his wife Yu Lanyu accompany the two of them to chat.

Zhou Xin's daughter, Zhou Keke, was still young, so she couldn't bear it and couldn't understand the interest of these grown-ups chatting at night. Zhou Xin and Yu Lanyu couldn't coax her to sleepy crying for a while.

It was Fang Zhuo who hugged the little girl on his shoulders and hummed for a while to lull her to sleep.

"Emperor of Heaven, Emperor of Earth, there is a Yekui Lang in my family, and a gentleman passing by reads it once, and sleeps until dawn."

Fang Zhuo did not participate in the chat, and signaled that he would hug Zhou Keke who was asleep first, and put her back in the guest room after she fell asleep.

The moon was hidden in the clouds, and the voice of the chatter in the courtyard was lowered. Fang Zhuo listened to the enthusiastic chatting of several people, and occasionally shook the little girl in his arms, as if he had not been attacked by BA.

When Yu Lanyu took Zhou Keke over, secretary Liu Zonghong quietly came to deliver a new message.

"Mr. Fang, Google's Schmidt is coming to China. He made an appointment to visit Yike on Wednesday. He said that Google may be withdrawing from China."

Fang Zhuo focused slightly, Baidu's search market is going to be dominated by one company.

He nodded: "No problem, I haven't seen Schmidt for a long time, and I miss him too."

Liu Zonghong reported another small news: "Mr. Lei Junlei came back from an inspection in the United States, and he also wants to come to the company again. I haven't made an appointment yet. I want to talk about the prospects of the group buying project Mituan in China."

Fang Zhuo smiled and said, "He's coming to make cakes for me. The appointment is until Sunday. Well, Mr. Lei, Meituan."

Liu Zonghong has no other news, but it's a bit strange to hear Mr. Fang's address, Meituan?Rice balls?
He thought about what he said just now, maybe he had an accent.

(End of this chapter)