The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 391 Google's Independence

Google has only received two rounds of investment so far, and the amount of financing before and after is only about 1 million U.S. dollars, and the 1 million U.S. dollars is basically used to purchase servers and bandwidth to maintain Google's basic services and product development.

Under normal circumstances, relying on the income of the advertising network, Google can obtain a considerable flow of funds.

After all, Yahoo's advertising alliance is really a lot of money. Yahoo itself relies on this advertising alliance, and its annual advertising revenue has reached tens of billions of dollars.

But the problem is, as the price of cooperation with Yahoo, Google has to give Yahoo 50% of its revenue.

You must know that after joining the advertising network, all the advertising revenue obtained must first be divided into 55% with Yahoo.

Afterwards, Google had to give 50% of its own income to Yahoo. That is to say, Google could only get 25% of all advertising revenue. But the final income can only barely maintain the service, and there is no funds for continued expansion.

At the same time, Larry Page also discovered that although joining Yahoo can get huge traffic blessings, Yahoo actually limits Google's own development.

Because 75% of all advertising revenue has to be handed over to Yahoo, this has caused Google employees, including Larry Page himself, to have no desire to continue developing new features. There are too many advertisements, but the big head will still be taken away by Yahoo, and I am just working for Yahoo.

So after being given an ultimatum by Jerry Yang, Larry Page also made up his mind to take this opportunity to completely break away from Yahoo, otherwise Google can only gradually become an appendage of Yahoo.

But if it breaks away from Yahoo, Google faces another very real problem, which is the problem of insufficient servers.

Faced with the rapid development of business, Google's consumption of servers is also very huge, but Google has not purchased new servers for more than a year.

Generally speaking, for a large network company, if it has not purchased a new server for more than a year, then either the network company has reserved a large number of server resources in advance, or the network company is going downhill, and users The number of people does not increase but decreases, so there is no need for so much computing power and storage resources.

For Google, these two situations do not exist. The reason why he really did not update the server is because the redundant computing power and storage requirements are provided by Yahoo.

Yahoo also has a bit of a head. It didn't blindly squeeze the oil and water from Google. It also kindly proposed that Yahoo can afford the computing power and storage resources that Google lacks.

So now nearly half of Google's customer data is on Yahoo's servers, and 2/3 of the computing power requirements are also completed through Yahoo's servers.

When the two sides cooperated closely before, these were naturally not a problem, but once they turned against each other like now, then the problem would become big.

For Google, user data is extremely important. Once a user logs in to Google one day, but accidentally finds that all his records and information are gone, it is definitely a terrible result for Google. I don’t know what will happen How many users hate Google so much that they itch, and then Google explodes completely.

Yahoo’s cooperation period limit is after three days, that is to say, within three days, Google must find enough server resources to complete the transfer of these regular user data, otherwise Yahoo can delete them directly at any time after three days. Google data.

This is equivalent to holding Google's data in your hands and kidnapping Google.

Obviously, these are the calculations that Yahoo has made a long time ago, and they deliberately delayed until today to give Larry Page an ultimatum. Google sold itself.

After all, there is only less than 3000 million US dollars left in Google's account. Even if the time issue is not considered, this amount of money will definitely not be able to buy enough storage servers to help Google store data.

After all, in order to store Google's data, Yahoo has consumed its own server resources equivalent to 1.5 million US dollars. Where can Larry Page get enough servers for him at a price that is five times cheaper.

The whole Yahoo is very confident. They can control Google to death, and the other party can't jump out of the palm of their hands.

"So that's the case, but I don't remember such an incident in Google's history, and Google and Yahoo have completely broken up, and that will be next year!" Huang He said to himself.

According to Huang He's memory, Yahoo and Google did break up completely, but that happened in 2004.

At the same time, Yahoo's attempt to acquire Google also occurred in 2004. After that acquisition failed, Yahoo simply removed Google from its homepage, and then replaced it with its own Yahoo search engine, and the two parties broke up completely.

So Google did experience a period of trough after the breakup, but I have never heard of a problem with Google's data, and Google quickly got out of the trough and began its legendary life of counterattacking Yahoo.

He had never heard that Yahoo had ever used server resources to threaten Google.

Well, of course Huang He didn't know that such a thing happened was actually due to Huang He himself.

It was precisely because Huang He took advantage of the resource advantages of QQ and Facebook to take advantage of Yang Zhiyuan, so that Yang Zhiyuan had a deeper understanding of traffic channels. important things.

Ever since, Yang Zhiyuan suddenly remembered that the traffic entrance of Google search in the United States seems to be larger than that of Yahoo.

Yahoo once did such a market survey, that is, after users open their browsers, which is the default webpage they set, and at the same time, that is the first webpage that is manually opened.

This is a market survey that Yahoo does every year. In the first few years after Yahoo was born, the number one option was firmly occupied by Yahoo.

For all American Internet users, it seems that Yahoo is the first thing they see when they open their browsers.

But the situation has changed this year. Yang Zhiyuan was a little horrified to find out that the No.1 default browser home page is still Yahoo, but the first one is opened manually, that is, by clicking on the web page or directly entering the network address to enter The web has become Google.

And this number is a full 400 million more people. This number is already a very scary number for the United States, which has a current Internet population of about 4 million, a full one-tenth of the number.

Yang Zhiyuan keenly felt a chill. He noticed that the number one traffic portal of the US Internet has now changed from Yahoo to Google.

Even if this is not an established fact, it is definitely a changing trend.

When he understood that the traffic portal is the most important thing for Internet companies, and that the No. [-] traffic portal in the United States is now being transferred to Google, Yang Zhiyuan is not stupid, and he understands what he should do.

In history, Jerry Yang was ambitious at that time and believed that Yahoo was invincible. Even after reading the report at that time, he did not think that Google was anything special, and it was impossible to shake Yahoo's hegemony.

And at that time, Google and Yahoo cooperated very happily. Yang Zhiyuan gave up the idea of ​​forcing the purchase of Google without thinking too long.

It was not until 2004, when both the browser's default homepage and a manually opened web page became Google, that Yang Zhiyuan began to force the purchase of Google.

But this time, because of Huang He's influence, Yang Zhiyuan realized the importance of Google in advance, and began to force Google half a year in advance.

As for the server issue, because the server usage agreement between Google and Jerry Yang is signed every three years, this time today coincides with the expiration of the first signed agreement and the need to renew the agreement.

Google in history has already signed the second agreement, so even if Yahoo forced the palace in 2, it could not use the server as a means to oppress Google, because Google's server has two years of service life.

But this time, Google has no chance to sign this agreement for the second time. Unless Google agrees to sell itself to Yahoo, Yahoo will not continue to provide Google with server resources.

This is the yellow crane, a little butterfly, which has changed the world again.

Of course, Huang He couldn't understand the matter for a while, but Huang He didn't need to understand, because he found that the opportunity to invest in Google had already been sent to him, and the opportunity to win the real king of the US Internet industry in the future , It was delivered directly to him.

It seems that I have really done a lot of good things in my life to have such a good opportunity.

"Mr. Page, I personally feel very sympathetic to your experience, and I also feel deeply disgusted by Yahoo's behavior. I will definitely stand by your side and help you!" Huang He said so first, relieved Larry Page's weak and injured heart, and then turned around and said, "But Mr. Page, I believe you know more about the importance of pricing strategy for a company than I do. We can't make the slightest compromise on pricing, otherwise What awaits us is endless troubles!"

"Really?" Larry Page showed a wry smile, and then sighed, "But, what else can I do? Even if I go to find the support of those big investment groups, they cannot within three days, Just give me a huge amount of money!"

"Ahem, don't worry, we still have a workaround!" Hearing that Larry Page wanted to find other capital investment, the flesh on Huang He's face twitched slightly, and then he said, "Our server, We can sell it to you at our original price, but I didn't say, you must pay immediately!"

(End of this chapter)