Reborn multinational giant

On December 7, it was just a week after Fang Zhe went to Baidu. Fang Zhe got his wish and reached the total of 360.

Although 360 is now considered to be a large-scale Internet company, when Zong Zhou learned that Huizhong’s Mr. Fang had asked him to meet, although he was surprised, he readily agreed. Although Fang Zhe and Huizhong are in the Internet industry New star and rising star, but the achievements and strength are not to be underestimated.

In terms of the valuation and profitability of the two companies in the capital market, Huizhong is not even better than 360. To say that 360 is stronger than Huizhong, that is, the number of domestic users covered. After all, Huizhong is currently in China. The users of 360 are basically game players. In terms of total number, they are not comparable to 360's nearly 100 million users accumulation. However, in foreign countries, the situation is just the opposite. 360's overseas business cannot be compared with Huizhong at all!

Fang Zhe and Mr. Zhou met in a teahouse near the Olympic Park. It happened to be between the two companies. Fang Zhe neither planned to visit the 360 ​​headquarters in person, nor did he make it big enough for Mr. Zhou to go there. Huizhong took a trip.

Thinking of this, Fang Zhe became even more unhappy with Baidu. After all, boss Fang had visited before in person, and Mr. Li's score was too big.

When you hate a person, you hate him everywhere. Fang Zhe now has this feeling towards Baidu. Many things Baidu and Mr. Li have done have been labeled as hate by Fang Zhe.

Like Baidu’s President Li, this is the first time that Fang Zhe has seen 360’s Zhou in reality. However, Fang Zhe has no mood swings in his heart. To be honest, among the big players in the Internet industry, 360’s Zhou In general, he is the most down-to-earth person, regardless of his looks or character, he is an ordinary middle-aged greasy man.

When Fang Zhe entered the private room, Mr. Zhou had already waited for a while, and after the two had finished ordering, they chatted casually.

"Which university did you graduate from, Mr. Fang?" Mr. Zhou is a straight man in character, so his opening remarks were unremarkable.

"Anyang Ligong, just graduated this year!" Fang Zhe replied. He believed that Mr. Zhou should have investigated his details long ago, just like he deliberately turned over his details and 360's development history before coming. , Is one of the criteria for discussing things, and Mr. Zhou has nothing to say.

"President Fang is really young and promising! I was just starting graduate school when I was in your grade." Mr. Zhou praised Fang Zhe's achievements by analogy.

Fang Zhe remembered Mr. Zhou’s resume, which he had just turned over two days ago. Mr. Zhou graduated from Anxi Jiaotong University. After graduating in 1995, he went to work for Fangzheng, a giant in the domestic IT industry. 3721 of a generation of rogue software.

The earliest 3721 provides Chinese Internet services similar to the combination of Baidu and navigation websites. After downloading the 3721 plug-in, users can directly enter Chinese nouns in the browser address bar to search or enter the corresponding website.

Similar to replacing the common English website with Chinese name, the function is rough and simple, but it is very friendly and practical to Chinese netizens.

Before 3721 circle Baidu, the country's largest quasi-Chinese search engine was also one of Baidu's most important competitors in the early stage of its development.

In 2004, the wealthy Yahoo spent 120 million U.S. dollars to buy 3721 as one of Yahoo China’s trump cards, intending to compete with Baidu in the search field, and Zhou Zong also took advantage of the trend to become Yahoo China’s at the time. President.

However, a year and a half later, the battle between 3721 and Baidu had reached an irreversible point. Mr. Zhou also left Yahoo China and founded today's Qihoo 360.

Think about it carefully, the strength of 3721 was still very strong in the early years. If it hadn't lost to Baidu in the first place, perhaps today, the most commonly used search engine for people across the country is 3721 instead of Baidu!

It is also because of these historical grievances that Baidu and President Li have always looked at 360 not pleasing to the eye. In Zhou's heart, he has always been brooding about Baidu, and this is one of the reasons why 360 launched 360 search.

The two exchanged greetings for a while, and Fang Zhe finally put forward the topic:

"Zhou, I won't be sloppy with you anymore. I am here this time to ask you if you are still interested in returning to the search engine market?"

Fang Zhe asked this, in fact, he was fancy Zhou Zong heart, has always been brooding about Baidu's defeat of 3721, the better Baidu's performance, the more Zhou Zong felt that his face was hurt.

If 3721 did not fail, then these brilliance belong to me and 3721, and I don't need to engage in 360 again. Internet security is not a mainstream business in the Internet industry.

Mr. Zhou frowned. Before he came, he had been guessing the purpose of the young President Fang, Huizhong, who had come out to meet by himself. Like outsiders, Mr. Zhou always believed that Huizhong was a game company, between it and 360. There is really nothing to do. So when the two of them were talking just now, although the atmosphere of the two was still relaxed, Mr. Zhou always kept the other Zhe on guard. It doesn't matter that Fang Zhe is so young, he can achieve this at this age. general.

President Zhou turned his mind, frowning slightly relieved, and said, "Mr. Fang, you don't know what our 360 does!"

"Of course! 360's achievements in the field of Internet security are obvious to all. If it weren't for 360, ordinary people like us would have to spend money to buy anti-virus software to kill a computer!" Fang Zhe responded with a smile.

President Zhou smiled calmly on his face. As Fang Zhe was able to affirm his and 360's results, he was naturally very happy. He asked: "Mr Fang, are you interested in searching?"

Hey, Fang Zhe really has no patience to test each other with Mr. Zhou. He said straightforwardly: “Mr. Zhou, you don’t need to think too much about it. Zhongle platform is very dependent on Baidu's traffic, which is a very risky thing for us, so I only came to Mr. Zhou today, hoping to diversify some of the risks.

What is the current situation of Google China? I think Mr. Zhou, you have also seen it. Google’s withdrawal from China is basically a foregone conclusion. After Google leaves, the market share vacated in the search field will definitely fall into the hands of Baidu. At that time, Baidu is the only one in the domestic search industry. This is not what Huizhong wants to see. I think, Mr. Zhou, you are probably not happy to see such a situation.

If Mr. Zhou is not interested in you, I can still talk to Mr. Ma of Tencent. I think he must be very interested in this matter!"

After hearing Fang Zhe's unobstructed words, Mr. Zhou's heart pounded a little faster, and his brows wrinkled again.

Fang Zhe said these words so frankly, it was indeed a bit beyond his expectation. It seemed that Fang Zhe didn't have the patience to wrestle with him and test each other, but Zhou always believed that this young Fang boss was quick and ruthless. Quasi, hitting a snake and hitting seven inches directly hit his own vitals. He is very confident that he and 360 will definitely do a search!