On March 2, Zhou Yujie led several employees to board the plane to Yanjing. This time he came to Yanjing was invited by Baidu Company to attend Baidu's annual Baidu Alliance Conference.

At this time, Baidu was full of energy. With the rapid development of Internet users and the increase in search demand in recent years, Baidu's turnover and profit hit a new high, and its market value exceeded US$40 billion, successfully entering the top 20 global technology companies' market value that year.

In this era, most companies only regard the mobile Internet on mobile phones as a supplement to the PC side. Even the most popular group buying websites at present, except for Meituan, the others focus on the PC side, and the same is true for other types of Internet companies.

The search engine represented by Baidu is a gateway to the Internet on the PC side. If users want to buy something, even if they go to Taobao, when they encounter several different brands, they will search back to Baidu.

Wherever people want to travel, even if they use Ctrip, they will use Baidu when they encounter unfamiliar places or places they want to know.

Or if the user wants to have the next game, even if they find the game in the computer assistant, they will go to Baidu to check out the Tieba or game forum.

Baidu's traffic may not be as sticky as Tengxun's social networking, but its commercial value is higher. A large number of physical companies and service industries will rush to compete for some of Baidu's keyword advertisements, because this amount of exposure is comparable to CCTV advertising. Therefore, at the beginning of each year, Baidu will hold an alliance meeting at the headquarters, and the invitations are Baidu's largest partner.

Baidu is currently one of Quxin's major shareholders, and Zhou Yujie was also invited to Baidu's headquarters.

Compared with the office buildings rented by Toutiao, Baidu’s current headquarters can be said to be extremely brilliant. In a place like Yanjing, where every inch of land is valuable, there is such a building with a construction area of ​​more than 100,000 square meters.

Zhou Yujie did not participate in the so-called alliance meeting because he had long known that this was not technical development at all, but a seminar on advertising development. In the past two days, Zhou Yujie also visited the entire Baidu headquarters.

On the third day, Boss Li of Baidu finally took the time to meet Zhou Yujie.

Zhou Yujie had actually guessed this possibility for his meeting with Li Yanhong. Otherwise, Baidu would not have needed to invite him to Yanjing. Moreover, the purpose of Baidu investing in Quxin is actually not really optimistic about Quxin, but Quxin has great value for Baidu.

On the 52nd floor of Baidu Building, Li Yanhong's office accounts for almost a quarter of the entire floor. Looking from the floor-to-ceiling windows, the viewing angle exceeds 180 degrees, and you can see half of Yanjing.

"Mr. Zhou, come on, please sit down." Li Yanhong said politely.

"Thank you, Mr. Li." Zhou Yujie also met the head of a bat-level company for the first time. Although these people often appeared in the news in later generations, they still felt different when they were close contact.

Being able to have face-to-face conversations with the people of the three Bat Big Three is also a symbol of initial success.

"When I saw Mr. Zhou, I remembered that more than ten years ago, two college students asked me for technical issues in search engines. They had good technical skills and had a deep understanding. I didn't think much about it at the time, so I communicated with them for a long time. Later, after Google became bigger, I realized that they were the two founders of Google." Li Yanhong said with a smile:

"You are as young as them at that time, and they are both very successful. In social circles, Tengxun has been monopolizing for too long. Even our Baidu and Alibaba cannot do anything about the field, but they were made by a young man who started a business. It is incredible to think about it."

"Smartphones have just begun to become popular. I think traditional QQ is not necessarily suitable for mobile Internet to a certain extent, so I did Funxin." Zhou Yujie said.

"Yes, this mobile phone is not as good as a computer in many places, but in terms of social interaction, it may be quite convenient to use a mobile phone." Li Yanhong nodded and said:

"But if you want to surpass Teng Xun, it is impossible to use the current size of General Manager Zhou. I can be sure that even if you have creativity and ideas, the other party can directly imitate it. With traffic and resources, every innovation will only become a way for competitors to go further. Now is not the era when you can rise with creativity more than ten years ago!"

"What Mr. Li said is indeed very right, so I think Quxin and Baidu should cooperate better." Zhou Yujie said calmly.

Since Quxin has been popular with "shaking", Zhou Yujie has known that companies like Baidu and Alibaba will definitely be very jealous, because although Quxin is still young, the first step of socializing has been taken out. This step has been tried countless times by Baidu and Alibaba, but they all ended in failure.

With the first step, as long as you invest huge resources to continue to support it, it may threaten Teng Xun's back garden. Even if you can't win, it will be enough to affect Teng Xun's strategic plans. This is a real open conspiracy. A social software appeared on the market. Teng Xun will definitely suppress it with all its might and cannot give it any chance.

When WeChat almost dominated the world in later generations, Momo relied on social interaction with strangers. It seems that discerning people are just a social software that cannot threaten QQ or WeChat, but Alibaba still showed a very strong interest.

In the second year after Momo's establishment, Alibaba invested in Momo for US$40 million, and Momo's valuation was as high as 200 million to US$300 million. Alibaba also participated in the subsequent financing of Momo. In addition to being optimistic about Momo, one of Alibaba's important purpose was to get into Teng Xun's back garden, forcing Teng Xun to be distracted.

"It is impossible to compete with Teng Xun." Li Yanhong brewed a cup of tea and handed it to Zhou Yujie and said: "If you want traffic, even if you continue to raise funds in the future, we Baidu can support it, but so what? Can this support compete with Teng Xun's power?

Tengxun can fully support WeChat to compete with your Quxin, but the relationship between Baidu and Quxin is just an ordinary investment + cooperation relationship. We cannot help you with all our efforts, and even if you can, you cannot afford such a high traffic fee.

Take a step back, even if what is said above is OK, Quxin and Baidu are not the same company, and their headquarters are not in the same place. Both parties have to consider their own interests. Many cooperations will have a lag of several days or even longer. For the current competition between WeChat and Quxin, this lag is the most deadly.

Mr. Zhou, are you saying what I said is right?”

"The analysis is very correct, Mr. Li is intent." Zhou Yujie nodded and said.

Li Yanhong's analysis makes sense. Quxin's current advantage is slightly better than WeChat, but even with big data recommendations, it is impossible to compare with WeChat, which has huge traffic and has been maintaining popularity. Over time, the situation will reverse. Even if there are any new ideas in the future, Quxin may have only one or two weeks of advantage.

Without considering other things, including Quxin in Baidu and obtaining Baidu's huge traffic support can you fight Tengxun.
Chapter completed!