The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 436 Which Engine Are You Using?
Is it possible that Yahoo's search engine was crushed by Google?
No matter how you look at it, this is impossible. After all, Yahoo has the strongest portal website in the world. With such a huge amount of traffic, how could it lose to Google's search engine?
You know, in the data released last time, Yahoo's search engine has occupied 90% of the entire market share. How could it have fallen to less than 20% all of a sudden?
Wait, the data released last time seems to be when Google was not separated from Yahoo, so the market share of Yahoo's search engine at that time actually refers to the market share of Google's search engine?

Thinking of this, the expressions of the reporters suddenly became a little weird.

"Mr. Page, how did you get these data? Is it your own statistics from Google?" A reporter stood up and asked, if this data is from Google's own statistics, then the tricks in it are very interesting .

"My friends from the press, please pay attention to one thing, that is, what I am publishing now is the data on the prospectus!" Larry Page said with a familiar expression, "According to the requirements of the US Securities Regulatory Commission, if a company wants to go public If so, all the data on the prospectus must be counted under the identification and supervision of a third-party company!"

"In order to fully guarantee the authenticity of the data in this prospectus, we have entrusted the well-known US accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and the US Gallup research firm to conduct research on Google's economics, taxation, and market conditions since a month ago. and other comprehensive data for investigation and collation.”

"Every data on the prospectus has been certified by these two companies. If the above data is false, these two companies will also be held legally responsible!" Larry Page's voice fell, and immediately No one doubts the authenticity of the prospectus data.

After all, two companies, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Gallup, are in charge of the investigation. One is the top accounting firm in the United States, and the other is the top research company. Each of them has more than decades of establishment time. Thousands of companies across the United States provide accounting and investigative services.

The foundation for these companies to gain a foothold lies in their reputation and the authenticity of their data. Once someone discovers that the data is falsified, they will immediately be suspected by all investors. These two top companies in the industry will be pulled away in an instant. Go down to the altar.

These two companies will never do shameless things just for Google, so 99% of the data published in the prospectus are true and effective.

If this is the case, doesn't that mean that Yahoo's search engine is actually fake?

Yahoo's share price...

Reporters are keenly aware of a very interesting thing, which could be a disaster for Yahoo, but who cares, as long as they have big news.

On the other hand, it seems that in order to prove the authenticity of his data, Larry Page directly projected more detailed data, including a data curve, which also includes data from other brands of search engines.

According to this data curve, it can be seen that before July 7, that is, before Yahoo search was launched, Google's search engine market share in the United States was as high as 16%.

By July 7th, the market share dropped to 16% in an instant, and the data of Yahoo's search engine appeared in the data out of thin air. On the first day of his appearance, the market share was as high as 77.3%.

That is to say, when Yahoo search was launched, it took about 15% of the market share from Google search.

This data is more realistic. With the support of Yahoo's own large traffic, it is rare to be able to steal 15% of the market share in an instant.

According to common sense, in the next week, Yahoo's market share should be on the rise, and more and more Yahoo users will become users of Yahoo's search engine. This is a change in line with market laws.

But this change is only one day, that is, on the second day, the market share of Yahoo's search engine increased to 2%.

But this is the peak of Yahoo's search engine. In the next few days, the market share continued to decline. As of the 21st of the statistics, the market share of Yahoo's search engine was only 9.7%. Google's market share has returned to the 88.6% level.

Seeing such an obvious downward curve, the reporters at the scene fell into silence.

The reporters who can come to interview Google are basically competing with certain professional knowledge. Through this data curve, most of the reporters figured out the problems in the first place.

This is a curve that can never be produced by a normal product, but the curve was born, which means that Yahoo Search, which was released just a week ago, is actually a very bad search engine.

It's so bad that many users who use it once don't want to use Yahoo search again, but keep going back to Google search.

This is undoubtedly the worst result for Yahoo.

Because as long as the user experience of Yahoo’s search is decent, these users will be stable by Yahoo’s side by virtue of Yahoo’s own huge traffic advantage. After all, opening a portal website and opening a dedicated search engine is still quite troublesome.

But now that the quality of the search engine has dropped, there is no way to save it. Yahoo can only bear the next consequences, which is to completely lose the search engine market.

So, is Yahoo's search engine really that bad?

"Mr. Page? How do you evaluate Yahoo search?" There is an old saying that is good, it is called asking if you don't understand.The most in-depth search engine research expert in the United States is undoubtedly Mr. Larry Page at the scene, so a reporter asked Larry Page very simply.

"Oh, I won't be sleepy if you ask this question!" Larry Page showed a smile on his face, and at the same time said in his heart, this press conference has been going on for so long, and it's finally time to let himself feel good.

So Larry Page asked the reporter with a smile on his face, "Do you usually go online?"

"Of course!" The reporter nodded. The reporter industry is the industry with the fastest access to the Internet.Because of the Internet, you can send all kinds of written manuscripts back to the editorial department at the fastest speed, without using a slow fax machine. Now there is no reporter who can't surf the Internet.

"So which search engine do you often use?" Larry Page asked again.

"This..." The reporter froze for a moment, as if he didn't know how to answer this question.

"In this way, Mr. reporter, you can turn on your laptop, then open your browser, and look at your search records, and you will understand that the search engine has the highest proportion!" Larry Page reminded the reporter. Nodding his head, he quickly opened the notebook he was carrying, and checked it directly.

Seeing this scene, many reporters also turned on their laptops on the spot.

A few minutes later, the reporter who was questioned looked up and smiled and said, "It seems that I have used Google search for the last 10 days!"

"And what about the other journalist friends?" Larry Page looked at the other journalists who had also turned on their computers, and it turned out that only two of them had a record of using Yahoo search, but this record only lasted for two days time, accounting for less than 10% of the total proportion.

And all the rest are Google search usage records.

"You questioned the accuracy of my data just now, and now you can see for yourself whether my data is accurate or not!" Larry Page said with a smile on his face, "It turns out that among all the reporters and friends here, Yahoo! The market share of search is less than 2%, and the rest is Google search, you are all loyal users of our Google group, now you will no longer question the data I provided!"

The reporters all smiled awkwardly, but the reporter who asked the question first went on to say, "Mr. Page, you didn't actually answer my question, which is how do you evaluate Yahoo search."

"This question is actually not suitable for me to answer!" Larry Page said lightly, "Because I personally hate Yahoo and I am full of prejudice against Yahoo search, so my answer must be full of prejudice, no able to answer that question.”

"But the answer to this question is also very simple. You might as well ask yourself, ask yourself why you don't want to use Yahoo search and use Google search!"

"For example, Mr. reporter, I remember you always use Google to search, why don't you use Yahoo?" Larry Page asked curiously.

"I can't answer this question... In fact, I have been using Google search all the time, and I am used to it!" The reporter scratched his head in embarrassment.

"Me too!"

"Me too!" Those few searched completely using Google and never touched Yahoo, the search reporters replied one after another.The answer is as simple as that, because they've been Googling for years and have gotten used to it.

"What about these two gentlemen, I remember that you used Yahoo search for two days, but then you used Google search again, why?" Larry Page looked curiously at the two , the only journalist with a history of using Yahoo search.

"It's because my reaction is too slow!" One of the reporters said without hesitation, "When using Google, under normal circumstances, the search page can be provided within 5 seconds. But when using Yahoo search, this time is extended by one hour." It's about twice the time, and the people waiting are very uncomfortable!"

"I also have this reason, but there is another reason, that is, there are too many advertisements in Yahoo search. I searched our company's website, but the first page is full of advertisements. I have to scroll down two pages to find our company's website. The website is too much trouble!"

The two reporters gave their reasons respectively.

(End of this chapter)