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Among the several monetization models on the Internet, Baidu has only one—Internet advertising.

This obviously cannot satisfy Baidu's appetite.

Therefore, Baidu is also actively exploring other tracks, but it is a pity that it has explored a lot along the way, but all failed, and it still relies on the search business to carry the burden.

In 2007, Baidu launched a new big plan - to enter the e-commerce!

After eBay was defeated by Taobao, Baidu wanted to take over the baton, enter the C2C e-commerce market, and defeat Taobao.

The source of confidence is that in this day and age, half of e-commerce traffic comes from search engines.

Baidu has great advantages.

So let's do it boldly and vigorously!

Then at the end of 2008, it successfully launched its own C2C e-commerce platform - Baidu Youah.

Li Yanhong is high-spirited and ambitious, and boldly said that he will defeat Taobao within 3 years!

Three years later, Baidu closed the "Youah" mall and gave up its C2C e-commerce business.

It is now May 2007, and Baidu is still planning intensively, and the project is still in a state of high secrecy.

But the gossip has already spread.

If Baidu wants to be an e-commerce platform, it must contact small and medium-sized businesses. These small businesses are all off-line of Taobao. Boss Ma had already obtained secret information from Zhou Buqi, and comparing the two, it was indeed so!

Boss Ma was very happy, and called Zhou Buqi, "You are so right, I have seized Baidu's C2C information!"

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "I told you a few months ago, what are you going to do?"

"What can we do? Cooperate deeply with Weidian."

Boss Ma was very helpless.

Alibaba also owns Yahoo Search, but Yahoo is too disappointing. After being acquired by Ali, its market share is getting smaller and smaller, and now it is less than 5%.

Fortunately, in the field of search market, there is a rookie - Weidian!

Baidu's share is just over 50%.

Micropoint's share is around 35%.

The gap is not too big!

After breaking up with Baidu, as long as it establishes a long-term and stable cooperative relationship with Weidian, Taobao's traffic loss in search engines will be relatively limited.

Zhou Buqi smiled, "The cooperation is good. Weidian also has an advertising alliance. Just add it. It's easy. The cooperation contract between Xiaonei and Taobao is still two years away. In the future, there will be no Baidu, so I will help you build Taobao. Promote."

Boss Ma said: "Do you know what Baidu's C2C model looks like?"

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "What else can we do? It's just like eBay and Taobao. It's free."

Boss Ma disagrees, "I don't think so. You can see that Baidu's defeat of Google did not rely on imitation blindly. It succeeded by looking for differentiation and taking a road that Google has not gone before."

Paipai is a high imitation of Taobao.

At the beginning, with ten times the salary, a management team was recruited from Taobao, and with Taobao's website framework and business philosophy, Paipai was created.

Many of these products under Baidu are imitations, such as Baidu Encyclopedia and Wikipedia, but they are not imitations at the pixel level, and the differences are obvious.

Zhou Buqi had never used Baidu You in his previous life, and he couldn't figure it out, "Who knows, I don't do C2C, I haven't researched it."

"But you did a search!"

"So what?"

"I got some inside information."

"Yeah?"

"Aren't you someone in Baidu?"

Zhou Buqi categorically denied, "No one!"

Boss Ma snorted and said slowly, "I think Baidu's C2C business is not necessarily a shopping mall, but a search-type C2C platform."

Zhou Buqi froze for a moment, "What do you mean?"

Boss Ma said: "Baidu's advantage is traffic and search. I think they may do a comparison shopping search based on C2C. It is to crawl all the products on the whole network and list them together for comparison, such as prices and reviews. Then let users choose. When users get used to it, Baidu will become the drainage platform for all e-commerce websites.”

"I go!"

Zhou Buqi was shocked by the old horse's whimsy.

Yes, with Baidu's traffic, if Baidu can integrate all the products on the entire network and display them on its own platform, users can compare the products of various e-commerce websites horizontally.

It is equivalent to having the God's perspective of shopping.

How big of an advantage is this?

After a long time, users will log in to Baidu directly when shopping online, and then go to different e-commerce platforms to purchase through Baidu's comparison... Even without switching accounts, they can directly communicate with various e-commerce platforms through Baidu's account to butt.

Baidu has become the most upstream of all e-commerce websites and the father of all e-commerce websites.

At that time, in order to be competitive, e-commerce websites will have to pay Baidu, play bidding ranking, play soft article promotion, or recommend products like medical advertisements.

Zhou Buqi tentatively asked: "If Baidu does this, what will you do?"

Boss Ma said calmly: "Taobao does not accept kidnapping, Baidu is not qualified. Taobao will block Baidu's crawlers. Block Baidu and refuse comparisons with their peers."

Zhou Buqi heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "You have already made up your mind, so what are you talking about?"

Boss Ma was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "I'm just reminding you."

"Depend on!"

Zhou Buqi cursed angrily.

It turned out that Lao Ma was referring to Sang and scolding Huai, and he was threatening, implying that he could not use this kind of comparison shopping search method.

Zhou Buqi said: "Lao Ma, I have been helping you every time, right? I have to help you develop Taobao's open platform. What about you?"

Boss Ma laughed and said, "I'm doing this with good intentions, I'm afraid you will go astray."

Zhou Buqi snorted and said: "You should have more reassurance. As I said, I don't know how to do e-commerce. Xiaonei's group buying is still in cooperation with JD. I know how complicated the operation is. Taobao's preferred channel is That's fine, that's enough."

Boss Ma laughed a few times happily, then lowered his voice, "I heard that you and the penguin... did not go well?"

"How do you know everything? There are many commercial spies, right?"

"Stop talking, it's the news you released yourself!"

"Yeah?"

Zhou Buqi pretended not to know.

This is really what Ziweixing released on purpose. The words are very deterrent. Whether the Friends.com open platform will be further sold to the outside world depends on whether Penguin will participate in the cooperation.

If Penguin pays and cooperates, it can continue to sell.

If Penguin doesn't buy it, the open platform project will stop selling it to prevent some small and medium-sized companies from leaking the code to them.

This news is a bit disappointing.

Also very stressful.

Internet colleagues who want to buy an open platform must negotiate with Penguin and urge them to cooperate with Ziweixing.

Boss Ma said: "When will you be free, come to Hangzhou?"

"what?"

"Talk about work!"

"Let's talk on the phone."

"I can't tell, you have to come here in person. Well, it's good news!"

"What good news?"

Boss Ma couldn’t help but smile when he saw that he couldn’t see the coffin, so he could only smile and say, “Is Japan’s mixi offering 2 million US dollars to buy your open platform?”

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "You know all about this?"

Boss Ma said: "Of course I know, I was the one who helped you negotiate this matter."

"ah?"

"In three days, you come over, let's meet and talk."

"OK."

Zhou Buqi had no choice but to agree to the fact that the other party made such a big deal.

...

It's already late May.

Coupled with Wen Zhixia's deep understanding of righteousness, Zhou Buqi decided to come back.

He is going to end his vacation and return to work.

Submit an application—approved by Teacher Wen—approved by my mother—approved.

Wen Zhixia didn't want him to have a psychological burden, and comforted him with a smile, saying that Santai is too hot, and after confinement, she will take the child back to the capital next month, that is, they will be separated for about ten days, and they will be able to recover soon. met.

Ning Yaxian has a little problem.

"You want to ask for leave?"

"right."

"Why?"

"Go back to my hometown." Ning Yaxian was very helpless, "Isn't it time to cancel my vacation? I have to go back to Nancang and bring the child with me."

Her daughter Ning Xinxin is in her hometown.

The reason why I stayed in my hometown was because my sister was in an emotional crisis and was in a low mood. Just leave the child to her, let her take it with her, and infect her with the innocence and loveliness of the child.

Taking care of the children every day is considered something for her to do, so she won't be thinking about it every day.

Zhou Buqi frowned, "Then you won't go to Hangzhou on a business trip with me?"

Ning Yaxian shook her head lightly, "I can't go, I'll pick up the child and go back to the capital directly. And..." As she spoke, she gave him a bright red look, "Besides, I'm not feeling well right now, but I don't want to spoil you."

Zhou Buqi widened his eyes, "What's this called? Don't be in the midst of blessings and not know your blessings!"

Ning Yaxian pursed her lips in joy, and looked around. There was no one in the living room, so she leaned over and kissed him on the cheek, and said with a smile: "That's it. It's okay. I'll arrange for a secretary people."

Zhou Buqi got up and waved his hands without looking back, "You can do whatever you want!"

I went to the front yard, took off my T-shirt and shorts, and jumped into the pool without even changing into my swimming trunks.

Ning Yaxian sat quietly on the sofa, took out her mobile phone and called Luo Qianli, the third secretary of the secretariat, and said concisely: "In three days, the boss will go on a business trip to Hangzhou."

There was a bit of surprise in Luo Qianli's voice, "I see, I'll arrange it!"

Ning Yaxian said lightly: "I remember... your period is around the 20th, right? Are you here?"

"Well……"

Luo Qianli immediately stretched her hips.

Ning Yaxian said seriously: "Going on a business trip with the boss requires a lot of walking, meeting a lot of people, drinking, staying up late, and a lot of work. Menstruation is not suitable for business trips. You will list this in the secretariat later. in the business travel rules.”

Luo Qianli cried in her heart.

My heart said Ning Dami, Ning Dami, why should women embarrass women!

You deprived me of such a rare opportunity?

Ning Yaxian said: "We are all women, women should not embarrass women, when menstruation comes, we should rest more and do some simple and easy work."

Luo Qianli couldn't hide her disappointment, "Then... then let Wang Yaojin go? She came at the beginning of the month, and she's fine during this time."

"Let's arrange it like this."