Seeing that AOL was about to go public, Henry knew that he had to move faster. The Nicholas website is now burning more and more money, and the money raised through Netscape is about to burn out. Except for the domain name management company and West German Publishing House, which can distribute dividends to Henry every year, other industries under Henry's name are spending money!
Henry's hands are a little tight, and he feels a little stretched.
And now, Cisco, the tiger, has shown its fangs and has killed 13 small and medium-sized network equipment manufacturers in the United States at a cost of 740 million US dollars! Here, Citibank and Morgan Bank have loaned one billion US dollars to Cisco. Cisco keeps running and will continue to crush it. All technologies that are helpful to Cisco must be bought; all companies that pose a threat to Cisco must be merged!
Cisco's actions were so brutal that it stunned the nation, and even Sequoia Capital was astonished. Compared with Cisco, the company's pace is called a slow one, and it is still developing steadily.
Henry said that the company is going to be finished sooner or later, just waiting to be acquired by Cisco!
Capital World Play Capital!
The development of conformity is too slow. The fastest way to accumulate technology and scale is to acquire a company!
It is not without reason that Citibank and Morgan Bank helped Cisco. First, Cisco has developed extremely well and has great potential; secondly, Cisco is going to be listed at the end of the year, and the listing contractors are the two of them! The more successful the Cisco IPO, the more Citibank and Morgan Bank earn. Cisco is going to fight this series of acquisitions, which is most for Wall Street or investors' taste! On the day of listing, the stock price does not know how high it will be!
Besides, Cisco does not randomly acquire companies, but is very targeted. It acquires companies related to its technology, which can promote the development of Cisco. Therefore, acquisitions of this kind are extremely strategic and very commendable!
Originally, Sequoia Capital would definitely be involved in such things as Cisco's listing, but Henry was already very uncomfortable with Sequoia Capital. Not only Henry was uncomfortable with Sequoia Capital, but also the entire Cisco management!
Who told Sequoia Capital to vigorously support the company, this has seriously damaged Cisco's interests!
As the controlling shareholder of Cisco, Henry decided to kick Sequoia Capital away. This is also highly supported by John Chambers and others!
Sequoia Capital's position in Cisco is now very embarrassing, it has become a display. Although it has a seat on the board of directors, it is useless. In the management of the company, no one takes it seriously!
Ford Brook basically does not come to Cisco, and he is angry when he comes!
However, Cisco's current negative equity ratio is very high, reaching -37%. But this point of negative equity is nothing. Many large companies have developed loans.
Cisco does not need to worry about Henry, no need to inject capital, it can already be self-sufficient, and it can bully others!
But the four companies of Pixar Animation Studios, Noah's Ark, Isearch, and Nicholas Group are burning money more than one.
Pixar Animation Studios' new computer animation short film "Red'sDream" won the San Francisco International Film Festival's Computer Composite Image Award and the Austrian PrixArs Electronica Film Festival's Golden Nikas Award. Although this made Henry very happy, it was far worse than another achievement.
Pixar's self-developed program RenderMan is about to be completed. RenderMan is a computer image rendering system widely used in the production of high-end moving images, so it is also an indispensable technology in high-end fields such as animated films and film and television special effects!
This kind of special effects technology is of great significance to Pixar! Henry expressed great concern about this matter, and even deliberately established a special effects company similar to Industrial Light & Magic! It's just that the RenderMan program hasn't been completed yet, wait until it's completed.
After , Henry still often stayed at Isearch. After the web crawler was improved, it was indeed much stronger, and the patent was also registered. The next step is to analyze and process these web page information. This time, Henry put forward the concept of webpage level. Whether websites on the Internet are good or bad, the quality of the webpages returned to users is particularly important!
Henry stood in the crowd and said faintly: "So, we need to design a ranking algorithm to evaluate the importance of these sites, and then provide users with the best quality information!"
"My assumption is this. Since every webpage contains links to other websites, can it mean that the webpage has voted for these linked websites? So the more votes a linked website has, the higher its rank! But We also know that there are many spam websites on the Internet. Therefore, for an excellent website with high traffic, can we set its initial rating to be very high, and then can cast more votes than ordinary websites?"
Henry finished, he looked very calm, Google's PageRank (page rank) is too famous, almost made Google's glory, this is not plagiarism, then just don't be a search engine...
After listening to Henry's words, everyone immediately admired them. Even Bill Joyce and Luke Stowe boasted of genius, but compared with Henry, they are willing to go down!
"CEO, what is the name of this ranking algorithm?" Luke Stowe asked excitedly.
"PageRank, page rank!!" Henry said indifferently. He is now not only the chairman of Isearch, but also the CEO of Isearch! With so many industries under his name, why does he act as the CEO of Isearch? Obviously, Henry's high hopes for Isearch are not so big!
When Henry was enjoying his glory, he said again: "Users generally search for titles and keywords. So on the basis of mixing titles and keywords, you need to adjust the results through PageRank to make the ranking higher. The web pages are ranked first in the search results according to the ranking order of the site, thereby improving the relevance and quality of the search results!!!"
"ceo, we understand!!" everyone said in unison!
Then, Henry set the task down. These employees are all top students at Stanford University, with good standards. Coupled with the presence of two geniuses, Bill Joyce and Luke Stowe, the project should proceed smoothly. It is not difficult to write code at www.uukanshu.com, but the difficulty lies in the idea and design. It is not difficult to make a program, but it is difficult to make a program with excellent algorithms, extremely fast responses, and accurate processing!
Now the Internet is far worse than in the future, the amount of information that needs to be processed is very small, and it is not required to be able to compare with Google, it is good to meet the current needs!
Busy until October, Isearch's search engine is finally completed. Through the test, the search experience is still good, and very accurate results can be returned within two seconds! The product can be launched on the market, but Henry still asks them to continue to improve, especially the algorithm. There are less than 20,000 websites and less than one million Internet users. The amount of information is very small. It takes 2 seconds for Isearch to return results. One can imagine how much better this algorithm can be!
Now that Isearch's search engine is sufficient, all companies under Henry's name will use this product, and tailor-made search systems for the Nicholas website, Netscape browser, Global Online, IMDB, Cisco official website, and Noah's Ark official website!
November 1st, this day is destined to be a sensation in the United States!
Henry's website all have a search box, enter the content to be searched, click "Isearch", and immediately return the information that the user needs!
This function is so practical and powerful, so that the global online traffic has soared, and the server was almost overwhelmed! Other websites have also increased their traffic, and because of the search box installed in the Netscape browser, the stock price went crazy that day, and I couldn't stop it! Climbing to the 6 billion market value mark in one breath is effortless! !