After a year of development, Sohu, a company with only four people, has grown to a scale of 18 employees.

And the little fat man Ding Ming has also become a medium fat man. His IT skills have not improved much, because there are too many things to do every day, and there is no time to delve into technical issues.

This guy has been fascinated since he was a child, and he has not learned much in business skills, but he has learned a lot from his father in dealing with others. He is now Zhang Chaoyang's full-time assistant, responsible for the company's daily affairs processing, connecting up and down, left and right, and is developing towards the direction of management skills specialization.

The most funny thing is that Ding Ming's temper has grown. He used to have no conflicts with anyone at school.

No way, Zhang Chaoyang is a good gentleman, he never scolds and punishes employees. Since the boss is singing red face, Ding Ming, the second child, has to sing white face, otherwise the company must be messed up.

So now Ding Ming's nickname in the company is "Smiling Tiger". He usually talks and smiles, but suddenly turns his face. If anyone makes a mistake, Ding Ming can call people for an hour or two, and then he will supervise the wrongdoer to make corrections throughout the process.

But when this guy is not angry, he looks very kind and considerate. He remembers the birthday of every employee, and he buys birthday cakes at his own pocket, which often brings surprises and touches to others. If any employee coughs twice, Ding Ming will buy the cold medicine in minutes and remind him to drink more hot water and take a break.

After one year, the employees were respectful and afraid of Ding Ming, so personal prestige was established.

On the contrary, it is Zhang Chaoyang, the general manager. While the employees respect and love, they can't help being underestimated. Employees can joke unscrupulously with Zhang Chaoyang, or even slacken under Zhang Chaoyang's nose, because everyone knows that Zhang Chaoyang has a very good temper, and he can at most curse a few words if he makes a mistake and gets caught.

In this way, Zhang Chaoyang actually became dependent on Ding Ming, the assistant. After assigning tasks, he asked Ding Ming to arrange; employees made mistakes, and he asked Ding Ming to deal with them; even for company dinners, he asked Ding Ming to choose restaurants to order dishes—because Ding Ming knew which employees liked what to eat.

Zhang Chaoyang feels good, he only needs to grasp the overall situation and general direction, and all trivial matters can be solved by the assistant.

Ding Ming feels so tired, a hundred times more tired than studying. He seems to care about everything, but he cares about everything. Now he can only sleep for a few hours a day, and everyone else is resting. He still has to think about preparing for tomorrow's work plan. He has gained more than ten catties from exhaustion in a year.

In the first two months, Ding Ming contracted the spring flu, and coupled with long-term fatigue, he lied in bed for a week before relieving himself.

For Zhang Chaoyang that week, everything went wrong and it made him angry at the company for the first time in an unprecedented way. The employees also quickly discovered that, leaving the fat man who always loves to talk, their work efficiency decreases exponentially, and the "smiling tiger" is so important to the company.

Early in the morning, Ding Ming relied on his father’s eldest brother’s lack of caller ID function, and used the company’s fixed phone to call: "Hey, Dad, it's me."

"You kid still remember to call me? You have said that you will call at the beginning of each month. This is the 12th!" Ding said, "I will send you money and buy a mobile phone immediately. Lest I can't contact you normally."

Ding Ming said with a smile: "It's really not necessary. Using luxury goods in school has a very bad influence."

Ding Ding said: "How about studying?"

"Well, yesterday the teacher praised me." Ding Ming babbled casually.

"Remember to build a good relationship with your classmates, make more friends, and I will remit it to you if the money is not enough." Ding Ding said.

"I know, I know," Ding Ming said, "Don't send me money. I followed Song Weiyang in stocks last year and I made hundreds of thousands."

Father Ding said, "The Boss Song in your dormitory must have a good relationship. You have become good buddies with him, and you won’t have to worry about it in your life. After graduation, you will come back to inherit the factory, maybe you can still work with Xifeng Company. Do business."

Ding Ming said, "Yes, yes, I have a very good relationship with Song Weiyang, dad, don't worry."

The father and son chatted for a while, when Ding Ming saw Zhang Chaoyang coming over, he said quickly, "Dad, I'm going to class, so I'll hang up first."

"Study hard, make progress every day, and make more friends." Ding Ding was still asking.

"Goodbye!" Ding Ming hung up quickly.

Zhang Chaoyang smiled and said, "Are you lying to your dad again? Just tell him clearly."

Ding Ming shook his head repeatedly: "My dad came from the countryside, and I was the first college student in the village. If he knew that I had dropped out of school, he might have come directly by plane and interrupted my leg."

"Let's go, the meeting is up." Zhang Chaoyang said.

The company holds meetings every day to discuss the content of hyperlinks on the day. Now it is mainly used for hyperlinks on People's Daily Online, but the proportion of Huayuan.com has dropped.

In the entire Chinese Internet sites in 1997, the largest traffic was not Sohu, nor was it a four-way benefit, nor was it the newly established Netease, but-People's Daily Online!

After Ma Xiaoyun helped "People's X News" to create People's Daily Online, this website was launched on January 1 and has undergone four revisions within ten months. The content includes: overseas edition, East China Board, Market News, Global Times, News Front, Humor And satire, the earth, the tide of the times, etc., and even securities and finance sectors.

In terms of content, People's Daily Online is the richest; in terms of scale, People's Daily Online is also the largest.

In 11 months, the number of visits to People's Daily Online exceeded 40 million, with an average of 400,000 visits per day. If this is a commercial website, it is estimated that Wall Street investors would have waved banknotes to talk about cooperation.

Although Sohu claims to be China's largest commercial Internet site, it shivered when facing People's Daily Online, and was unswervingly acting as a thief every day-coming from the People's Daily hyperlink news.

"Hello, Mr. Yang!"

"Hello Mr. Ding!"

The employees greeted one after another.

Among the 18 employees, one is in charge of finance, one is in technical maintenance, one is in charge of advertising business, and the rest are content editing. Among these content editors, there are also a few technical talents who often do odd jobs with Zhang Chaoyang-helping clients build websites.

"Mr. Zhang, the chat room we just opened is on fire," the content editor who is also in charge of the chat room said happily. "The four chat rooms have all reached the maximum number of people. You have to increase my staff and increase the number of chat rooms. The maximum number of people, otherwise I can't manage it at all."

Zhang Chaoyang said in a daze, "I watched it last night. There are no ghost shadows in the chat room."

The person said: "A netizen wrote a section called "Three Body", which was serialized in our chat room. Many people came over from Stone to read it."

""Three Body"?" Zhang Chaoyang was even more confused.

Ding Ming smiled and said: "That netizen is Boss Song, and "Three Body" is a science fiction story he conceived before."

Zhang Chaoyang suddenly realized: "So this is how he increased the popularity of the chat room."

"Which Boss Song?"

"Of course it is our big boss Song Weiyang!"

"I thought "Three Body" was written by a science student."

"Boss Song is awesome!"

"..."

Seeing that the older the employees, the more lively, Ding Ming suddenly coughed: "Reassure everyone, please Mr. Zhang to preside over today's meeting."

Those employees shut up immediately, and Zhang Chaoyang said: "I will not discuss the content of hyperlinks today. I plan to recruit a few more people and then assign a group of people to specialize in search engines."

"Are there enough people?" Ding Ming asked.

"Enough," Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile, "Yahoo's search engine can be done by two people, why can't we? The Internet has exploded this year. There are already hundreds of sites on the World Wide Web in China. By the end of the year, this data is likely to be still To double. There are more and more online content, which is a great time to be a search engine."

Ding Ming asked: "Are you going to be the first-generation search engine like Yahoo?"

"Yes." Zhang Chaoyang said.

"I think the second-generation search engine is more promising," Ding Ming said. "There are more and more Internet content, and directory retrieval is definitely more and more difficult to provide search targets for netizens. When I was searching foreign content on Yahoo recently, I often cannot find what I want, but the latest version of ebCrale is better to use."

Zhang Chaoyang shook his head and said: "The second-generation search engine found a lot of irrelevant content. I have also used it. It is more difficult to use than the first-generation, and sometimes there is not even a useful content."

Historically, Sohu, like Yahoo, did the first-generation search engine, which was officially launched in February 1998. The thing is catalog-based, and the database is made manually, and content outside the database is not searchable at all. Later, after the rise of Baidu, Sohu quickly followed up and developed Sogou Search (the third-generation search engine).

Ding Ming thought for a while and said: "I have an idea, I don't know if it is feasible. That is, when users use the second-generation search engine, they use technology to intelligently filter out irrelevant content and display only useful content."

"This... is estimated to be difficult to achieve. It is more realistic to be the first-generation search engine." Zhang Chaoyang said.

Ding Ming wanted to say something but stopped, not knowing what to say. He was a beginner technically and had no say. But in terms of daily use, he feels that the existing directory-based search must be eliminated, because Yahoo search is getting more and more strenuous. With the increase of Internet content, Yahoo-style search can collapse people.

Seeing that Ding Ming seemed to hold an objection, Zhang Chaoyang smiled and said: "Vote for it, please raise your hand if you do a catalog search."

All the votes were passed, except for Ding Ming.

After the meeting, Ding Ming found Zhang Chaoyang and suggested: "Should we call and ask Lao Song?"

"He doesn't understand technology, ask him what to do?" Zhang Chaoyang laughed.

"You can listen to his opinion, anyway, there is no shortage of those phone bills." Ding Ming said.

Zhang Chaoyang said: "Then you fight."

Ding Ming quickly dialed the phone and explained the situation: "Brother Yang, we are going to be a search engine. The first generation is a directory search. You can only find content in the database. You can't find it outside the database. This kind of search engine There is a big development bottleneck. The second generation belongs to the keyword search of the whole network. It does not need to manually create a complete database, but it always finds a lot of irrelevant content, and the user experience is very bad. Which one do you think is better for development?"

"The second generation." Song Weiyang made his choice directly.

Zhang Chaoyang quickly said: "Boss Song, the second generation technology is not perfect yet."

Song Weiyang said: "Then recruit people to improve it. To set up a search engine research and development team, is 1 million yuan a year enough?"

Zhang Chaoyang said: "I don't know, maybe this is a bottomless pit."

"Then it will be 1 million in the first year," Song Weiyang said, "you hire people to do it, and I will pay for it. Don't worry, the money will not dilute your shares and count as my personal sponsorship."

"I... okay." Zhang Chaoyang reluctantly agreed.

Zhang Chaoyang is an entrepreneur who will not reject people, not to mention Song Weiyang is still a major shareholder, he does not want to cause conflicts because of this matter. Moreover, Song Weiyang also paid for it personally, which made it even more difficult for Zhang Chaoyang to object.

However, Zhang Chaoyang did not approve of this project from the bottom of his heart, and complained a lot. He even wanted to let go of ~lightnovelpub.net~ to recruit people to fend for themselves, and what results can be developed is entirely based on God's will.

Rubbing his face, Zhang Chaoyang said to Ding Ming: "You are solely responsible for the search engine project. You can ask me if you have any technical problems."

"Okay." Ding Ming knew that there was a conflict between him and Zhang Chaoyang. I just hope that this contradiction can be repaired slowly.

Ding Ming immediately arranged the recruitment plan, and in front of Zhang Chaoyang, he said to all employees: "Zhang has changed his mind. He has already thought of a solution technically, so he plans to develop a second-generation search engine. Let us serve Zhang. Always applaud. Under the wise leadership of Mr. Zhang, Sohu will surely become the best Internet company in the world!"

"Papa Papa Papa!"

Many employees clapped in confusion.

Zhang Chaoyang could only shook his head and smiled bitterly. He knew that Ding Ming was saving him face. It would not be good to make him angry, but his grievances could not be sent out.

Song Weiyang's thoughts at this time were: Is this trying to kill Baidu in an egg state?