【Dingdingdingding…】The phone sounded, and Zhou Yujie saw the name and smiled and said, "Li Yanhong has really called!"

Zhong Guangwei, who was standing beside him, said: "We want to acquire Sogou, and Baidu will definitely pay great attention. However, it is not bad to be able to call here. These things are much simpler to put on the table."

There are only a few famous Internet companies. Many times, when encountering business conflicts or acquisition competitions, they are contacted directly by phone. For example, after Teng Xun entered the computer manager in 2010, Zhou Hongwei of 360 contacted Ma Huateng directly by phone, hoping that the other party could stop this business. This is the easiest way to solve the problem, but he was rejected by Ma Huateng.

"Well, let's talk directly." Zhou Yujie smiled, then answered the phone and said, "Hey, Mr. Li!"

"Mr. Zhou, tell you something." Li Yanhong's laughter came from the opposite side: "Baifubao is preparing to provide a large-scale subsidy on Christmas and New Year's Day. At that time, today's Preferred should invest more in personnel investment and more radical publicity."

"No problem." Zhou Yujie agreed without any hesitation.

Li Yanhong continued: "I heard that Mr. Zhou is planning to carry out a major merger recently?"

"Mr. Li's news is really well-informed." Zhou Yujie said with a smile: "Toutiao is preparing to enter the mobile browser market, but there are not many suitable ones in the industry. We are currently negotiating with several companies. Which one is not decided yet."

Li Yanhong said: "So that's it. Mr. Zhou also likes Sogou?"

The word "典" is actually a hint.

Zhou Yujie understood the words, but didn't care, and said, "Mr. Li, Sogou's current market share is very attractive to my Toutiao. If I can acquire it, I will naturally be interested."

Li Yanhong continued: "If it's just like this, Baidu and Toutiao will have direct competition. You and I have been working together for two years and have been very happy. I don't want to have conflicts because of this matter!

Moreover, our current enemies are Ali and Teng Xun. There is too much internal friction between you and me. No matter who loses in the end, it will be of no benefit to us!"

Zhou Yujie paused for a moment and said, "Then Mr. Li has any ideas, let's discuss it."

Li Yanhong said: "We are not only the two companies that want to acquire Sogou at present, but Teng Xun also has this meaning.

Let’s work together first and take Sogou. If things are done, we will divide them internally. Mr. Zhou, you can take Sogou’s browser business. How about the others belong to me?”

"This is not possible." Zhou Yujie said with a smile: "Mr. Li, your Baidu's input method is already the first in the domestic market. It's not worth it to have this Sogou input method, right? Why not give it to me Toutiao.

I can let go of search engines, what does Mr. Li think?"

At present, Baidu and Sogou are highly valued in the input method market. The market share of the two is actually similar, but Baidu input method is in the rising stage, while Sogou is in the decline stage. For Internet practitioners, the scale of Baidu input method will definitely be larger in the future.

However, later Baidu missed the trend of mobile Internet, his own traffic dropped sharply, and his strategic direction failed several times, which also led to the decline of input methods.

Now, the Baidu input method is at its peak. If you acquire Sogou, then 90% will slowly suffocate the brand and develop your own Baidu input method separately.

As for search engines, Zhou Yujie is really not interested. It’s not that he doesn’t look down on this market, but that the search engine has a very high technical content and can do it even if he wants to do it, but the investment cost and return ratio are too low. In this field, Baidu has become a designated brand in the hearts of the people. Even if the advertisements in later generations are rotten, they cannot be replaced by other giants.

Nowadays, among the three giants of Bat, although Baidu and Toutiao compete in information flow, it is not serious. In comparison, social networking and payment are the businesses that Toutiao must seize in the future. This is born to compete with Tengxun and Alibaba. At this time, it is more important to maintain a good relationship with Baidu.

"Input method..." Li Yanhong's mind quickly circled. Although Baidu intends to acquire Sogou, the main purpose is to enter the input method and search engine, and the input method is even more important than search engines. After all, his Baidu searches out ten Sogou. After acquiring Sogou input method, Baidu can monopolize the entire input method field.

But if Toutiao is the same, Li Yanhong still hopes that Zhou Yujie will not touch the search engine, because in the past two years, Toutiao has caught Teng Xun and Alibaba off guard by several combination punches. No one knows how much creativity there is in Zhou Yujie's mind. If Zhou Yujie also works as a search engine, it may be difficult to subvert Baidu's market, but it is also possible to tear off a piece of meat.

After thinking for a while, Li Yanhong said: "Mr. Zhou, how to allocate the input method, let's talk about it slowly in the future, but Zhang Chaoyang is probably waiting for us to internal friction. In addition, Teng Xun also has this meaning now, so why not let's get Sogou first and then talk about it, how about it?"

"Okay, then I'll send someone to Baidu to negotiate this matter immediately." Zhou Yujie agreed with a smile.

Baidu will definitely not give up controlling Sogou's input method at will, but as long as it is not a search engine, there is room for negotiation. No matter what the result is, at least one browser can be obtained.

"OK, I'll be ready here too." Li Yanhong said with a smile.

After making another polite approach, Zhou Yujie hung up the phone.

Lin Youde said: "It seems that the layout of the browser side will be delayed for a while!"

As a brand, Sogou must be sold together when it is most valuable, rather than separate. Zhang Chaoyang cannot sell it independently. However, the overall acquisition involves so many buyers, so I am afraid it will take a long time to wait.

Now, due to interest relations, the acquisition with Baidu will be successful, and the later distribution of interests may be delayed for a while.

But there is nothing we can do about this. It involves mergers and acquisitions of more than US$1 billion, and it will be almost done after a year or two.

"This is normal, so there is no need to be so anxious. The browser is just a small business. Getting it later will not affect the overall situation." Zhou Yujie said with a smile.

The purpose of making browsers is actually to supplement the traffic entrance. In the mobile era, the importance of browsers is actually not as important as that of PC era. After all, every software and service has its own APP.

Moreover, the browser has been optimized several times from 12-20, and its market share has also changed dramatically. Therefore, even if you enter the market later, you will still have a chance to turn the tables.
Chapter completed!