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Chapter 547 Pearl River Online
Portal websites have a very weak presence in later generations.

However, before the advent of 3G/4G networks, the four major portal websites had an absolutely enormous impact on the Chinese internet.

Especially between 2000 and 2010, they were definitely the new uncrowned kings.

Jiang Hui certainly wouldn't give up this market.

Even though this part of the business contributes very limited profits to the group, its influence cannot be ignored.

"President Jiang, as you instructed, Zhujiang Online has completed the preparations for its launch."

"We have also signed cooperation agreements with major domestic media outlets, and their content will be reprinted on the Pearl River Online website."

Fang Siwen was recruited by Jiang Hui himself from Huaxia TV to serve as the editor-in-chief of Zhujiang Online.

Zhujiang Online was handed over to his sister-in-law, Zhou Yunlai, so Jiang Hui naturally couldn't completely ignore it.

"Considering the internet speed, our initial content will mainly be text-based."

"News, entertainment, sports, finance, automobiles, real estate, military, technology, digital, education, travel and health."

"Initially, our webpage mainly revolved around these twelve channels."

"We will add or adjust it later based on the development situation."

Zhou Yun brought Fang Siwen with her today to report to Jiang Hui on the preparations for Pearl River Online.

Her laptop was on Jiang Hui's desk.

The above shows the webpage of Zhujiang Online.

"The layout is a bit monotonous; you can adjust it slightly."

"For example, this color..."

Regarding the content, Jiang Hui has no particular criticisms so far.

Historically, it would take several more years for domestic portal websites to emerge.

Huaxia has now joined the international internet community ahead of schedule, but Zhujiang Online remains the first portal website.

Therefore, there is absolutely no problem with the competitive advantage.

Furthermore, Zhujiang Online has already recruited over 100 editors and reporters from all over the country, so the content will definitely become richer and richer in the future.

He's not worried about being surpassed in this area.

However, the current webpage is really too boring, like a website for reading academic papers.

This is something that's very easy to change, and he'll definitely bring it up.

"I'll have the tech team fix it right away; it should be done quickly."

During this period, Zhou Yun also personally followed up on various matters concerning Zhujiang Online, and he was well-versed in some basic technical issues.

"After our website goes live, we expect the number of visitors to continue to increase."

"The company plans to purchase a batch of large servers, and we intend to communicate with Zhujiang Technology about this."

"Let's see if they can customize a batch of servers for us to use."

Fang Siwen chimed in from the side.

During this period, he also experienced logging into Pearl River Online to view the news.

That speed was definitely not very fast.

It's even slower when logging in via dial-up.

"Relevant departments are already promoting broadband, and it is estimated that it will be rolled out in some areas next year."

"Before broadband was rolled out, our web pages used text-based reporting, with small pictures added for special news."

"However, once broadband becomes widespread, our reports will need to be accompanied by both text and images."

Jiang Hui explained the development pace of Zhujiang Online to Zhou Yun and Fang Siwen.

Grasping this trend is crucial; if you miss it, you can easily be overtaken by others.

The internet has a bright future, and I estimate that many companies will gradually realize this.

In the future, Zhujiang Online will definitely not be the only company developing portal websites.

If you get up very early but arrive late.

That would be embarrassing.

"No problem, we will arrange the relevant work in this direction."

"We will even collaborate with Huaxia TV on sports events, providing online text-based live broadcasts."

"To further enhance netizens' enthusiasm for logging into Zhujiang Online."

After Fang Siwen joined Zhujiang Online, he will definitely need to make use of the resources he previously had.

He took a gamble, giving up a stable job within the system, undoubtedly hoping that Zhujiang Online would have a very bright future.

Unlike industrial enterprises, Zhujiang Online plans to go public in the future.

Jiang Hui had mentioned that these senior executives would definitely have stock options.

"We can recruit more interns from Shenzhen University and Capital University of Technology Shenzhen Campus to help with data entry."

"Let's enrich the content of our website as much as possible and increase the time users spend on our site."

“We could even create a novel channel, digitize some classic novels, and upload them to our website.”

"In this way, netizens will spend more than half, or even all, of their time online on Zhujiang Online, which will definitely be very beneficial to the development of our website."

"At the same time, we can also open a forum where everyone can discuss related topics."

"This is also a way to significantly increase user stickiness."

"Of course, there's no need to rush these things. We can take our time and it won't affect the official launch of Zhujiang Online in three days."

Jiang Hui continued to share his ideas.

The internet today can be described as an internet desert.

Many netizens, after logging in, don't know what they should do.

In that case, let Zhujiang Online tell you what to do.

Once everyone gets used to Pearl River Online, whatever Pearl River Online does in the future will be twice as effective with half the effort.

At the same time, advertising on Zhujiang Online will definitely be very effective.

The various companies within the BMW Group can be the first to try it out.

This is support for Zhujiang Online and a new attempt; it's a win-win situation.

After listening to Jiang Hui's various opinions, Zhou Yun quickly arranged for Zhujiang Online to make internal reforms.

Three days later, Zhujiang Online was officially launched.

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In the early stages of internet development, there were no national borders.

Everyone can freely log in to various websites.

Silicon Valley has always been the source of internet development.

Nowadays, there are actually quite a few random and shady small websites, but none of them have achieved significant scale.

The emergence of Zhujiang Online is like a regular army emerging from a chaotic mess.

This kind of destructive power is enormous.

Americans may not have noticed it so quickly, but some Chinese students studying in the United States discovered this very different new website very quickly.

“David, a Chinese student studying abroad recommended a website to me yesterday, and I think it’s very helpful.”

Jerry is currently pursuing his PhD at Stanford University, where his research focuses on computer science and network technology.

David was his best friend during his doctoral studies. They discovered that while there were more and more websites on the internet, there was no systematic directory for categorization and retrieval, making it very difficult to find information.

To solve this problem, they started manually collecting and categorizing their favorite websites and organizing them into a simple directory for their own and their friends' convenience.

The website is called "Jerry and David's World Wide Web Guide".

Originally, they were just messing around with this thing as a joke.

But when he saw Pearl River Online, his opinion changed.

He spent almost the entire night researching Zhujiang Online.

What new and interesting websites have caught your attention?

David continued working on something on the computer without even looking up.

As a tech fanatic, his passion for computers is absolutely insane.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have bothered to organize such a website on a voluntary basis.

“I think we were working in the wrong direction before, and this website has shown us the way.”

"If we reorganize our website in the same way as this website, I think it will be a huge breakthrough for commercial applications."

"The era in which traditional newspapers and television stations control public opinion is gone forever."

David paused for a moment after Jerry said that, and stopped what he was doing.

Soon, at Jerry's suggestion, he logged into Zhujiang Online.

All of the above is in Chinese; Zhujiang Online has not yet launched an English version.

However, David could see through the various layouts and speculations at a glance.

Not to mention that Jerry was there to help explain.

“Jerry, this is a really great idea.”

“There will definitely be investors on Wall Street who are interested in this.”

"Compared to Zhujiang Online, I think our website is a pile of dog shit."

David speaks very bluntly.

Good is good, bad is bad.

Compared to a regular army, these two groups of scattered soldiers were completely incomparable.

"That's what I was thinking too, so I'm going to adjust the webpage to have the same structure."

Jerry didn't hesitate at all and voiced his thoughts.

Anyway, various websites on the Internet copy each other, so there is no such thing as patent infringement.

Zhujiang Online has launched, so it's perfectly normal for them to follow suit and launch an American version of the website.

"The most impressive thing about this website is the layout and arrangement of its various contents; the website itself is not particularly difficult to design."

"Give me a month, and I can get this website up and running."

David quickly considered what he needed to do next.

He couldn't wait to launch another Zhujiang Online in America.

"I think we can release a preliminary version in half a month, not a month. Otherwise, it will take too long."

"I've even thought of a name for the website: Yahoo!"

Upon hearing Jerry's words, David immediately exclaimed with an exaggerated expression, "Yahoo!"

"This name is absolutely fantastic."

"We quickly registered the domain name."

As David and Jerry talked, the two quickly got busy with the launch of Yahoo!.

The leading portal website, which was not expected to appear until next year in its previous life, has been launched six months ahead of schedule.

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"Brother-in-law, our Pearl River Online has become the most visited website on the Internet after only one week of its launch."

"Our website is especially popular in universities."

Zhou Yun has been extremely busy lately.

Especially after Zhujiang Online officially launched, she stayed at the company almost every day, fearing that something unexpected might happen.

Fortunately, the internet in this era was relatively simple, and there were no particularly unexpected events.

"The nail that sticks out gets hammered down. Zhujiang Online is so popular right now, you need to be careful to guard against hacker attacks."

"Don't let your joy turn into sorrow, that would be bad."

Jiang Hui gave a slight reminder.

Almost every internet company, at every stage of its development, has encountered hacker problems.

Zhujiang Online will certainly be no exception.

Making some preparations in advance can prevent chaos and confusion later on.

"Our company has officially established a security department to be responsible for this business."

"The company has also recruited two relevant professionals from the polar bears and is arranging for people to learn some safety knowledge from them."

"At the same time, we also plan to poach one or two security experts from the United States."

"On the one hand, it's about counterbalancing the experts on the polar bear's side, and on the other hand, it's about enriching our security knowledge and technology."

Zhou Yun quickly reported his arrangements to Jiang Hui.

She originally just came to Jiang Hui's house for a free meal, but inevitably the conversation turned to work.

This is something that cannot be avoided.

"The hacking experts from the polar bear and the United States have a relatively high level of technical skills."

"It is indeed very necessary to arrange for people to learn from them."

"However, we do have talented people and experts in this field in China. We should try to recruit them as well."

"In the future, Zhujiang Online can launch antivirus software, so that netizens can gradually get used to Zhujiang Online's various products."

"Using Zhujiang Online in the future will mean using the Internet."

"If you can reach that level, you will have achieved complete success."

Zhujiang Online started so early that it became the world's first large-scale portal website.

Jiang Hui's requirements will naturally be higher.

"We are now rapidly expanding not only our editorial and journalist teams, but also our technology team."

"We've even internally suggested creating some small internet games and putting them on web pages for everyone to use."

"I think it has a promising future."

Upon hearing Zhou Yun's words, Jiang Hui couldn't help but glance at her a few more times.

Making games?
Although it will receive a lot of criticism, it really has a very promising future over the next decade or so.

If things go well, they could even make money from the gaming business in the future without any problems.

Didn't you see that NetEase, Sohu, and Tencent all made a fortune through games in later generations?

"Internet games are indeed very promising."

"Zhujiang Online could establish a formal game development department and enter this market."

It's rare for his sister-in-law to come up with such a good idea, so Jiang Hui definitely wants to highly affirm it and speed up its implementation.

(End of this chapter)