Chapter 235 The Wheel of Time Rolls Over Mercilessly

Before the outside world could react, Hornbill launched a new service called Global Access.

The price of this service is US$9.99 per month. Compared with Global Access, Global Access can directly capture the content of mobile apps.

As we all know, with the rapid popularization of smart phones, the content produced on mobile apps has far exceeded that on PC, and this is even more so on the simplified Chinese Internet.

Whether it is WeChat public accounts, Weibo, Zhihu, or Xiaohongshu, these mobile apps will take defensive actions even if they have web apps and refuse to be crawled by search engines.

In addition, Baidu’s own mechanism means that when you search for a question, even if the answer on Zhihu is more nutritious, you will still see the answer from Baidu Baijiahao.

This forces users to log in to Zhihu and use their built-in search engine to search for content.

Applications like WeChat official accounts are more strict in content control. You can at least search for content on Zhihu by adding the suffix "Zhihu", but on WeChat you cannot search for any content even with the suffix.

After the rise of mobile Internet, mobile Internet companies have regarded traffic as the core value of the company.

We spare no effort in building a moat and never let search engines get anything for free.

This is true for the Internet in China and also for the Internet abroad.

However, the better thing about foreign mobile Internet is that they all have web applications to some extent. If you understand search engines, you can grab some content.

Although the efficiency and accuracy cannot be compared with searching in the built-in search engine of the mobile app, it is better than nothing.

Hornbill's ability to break the content silos between mobile and PC completely shocked the global Internet world.

The advantages brought by the combination of global access and global access, with the added membership, can really make Google give up the game.

Compared to Hornbill, Google pales in comparison.

Not to mention Baidu.

Baidu’s only advantage is that Hornbill is currently a Malaysian application that has not been reviewed, its responses are not so “correct”, and it cannot enter China for the time being.

But if it accepts China's control and enters China, it means that Baidu will no longer have any room for survival.

It is a bit difficult for the Global Access function to enter China, but there is no difficulty at all for the Global Access function to enter China. Just the function of the Global Access function that can directly search the content of mobile apps is enough to leave Baidu powerless.

"Haifeng, have you read the news?" Li Yanhong finally got anxious. He knew that Hornbill could really kill Baidu this time. Baidu's fundamental search engine business was vulnerable to the wave of new technologies.

He knew that if he could not reach an agreement with Hornbill, Baidu would enter a countdown to death, and the time of death would depend on the time when Hornbill entered China.

He doesn't think Baidu has any core interests that cannot be abandoned.

He has also seen how Yahoo has managed to survive in the long river of history. Robin Li can also foresee the bloody storm that Baidu will face after the U.S. stock market opens in the evening. To be more precise, all companies involved in Internet business will face it.

“Look, I can’t tell how Alpha Tech is able to do this yet.

Samad has deep attainments in encryption decryption. They must have adopted a new decryption method to make all mobile application protection measures ignore their content capture.

If we can buy their technology, we can do it too. This is both a crisis and an opportunity for Baidu.

Once Baidu can crawl the content of mobile pages, Baidu's disadvantages in the mobile Internet era will be reversed at once." Wang Haifeng said with a hint of enthusiasm.

As a veteran of Baidu, Wang Haifeng witnessed how all of Baidu's strategic layouts in the mobile Internet era failed. In the end, the only project that Baidu could barely be considered successful was iQiyi.

Even iQiyi caused Baidu to lose 18 billion yuan in just four years from 21 to 300. Although the unit is RMB, it is definitely not a small number.

Therefore, Baidu cannot be said to have failed in the era of mobile Internet.

But it doesn’t matter, you’ll get your money back in one go.

With Alpha Technology's content crawling technology, the massive amount of content accumulated by the mobile Internet in the past decade will not only become Baidu's content, but also become the corpus of Baidu's artificial intelligence.

This will also bring about a rapid development of Wen Xin Yi Yan.

The current prerequisite is to take down Hornbill.

"That's right. The budget can be raised to 100 billion. We can negotiate any amount below 100 billion." Li Yanhong quickly changed his strategy and significantly increased Wang Haifeng's negotiation budget for this trip to Malaysia.

"Alternatively, you can take a direct flight to Singapore. Before arriving in Singapore, I will ask the person in charge there to pick you up and take you directly from Singapore to Johor Bahru.

We need to see the head of Alpha Technologies first."

Such scenes occurred among senior executives of major Internet companies and financial institutions. All flights from Yanjing, Shenhai, and Pengcheng to Kuala Lumpur and Pengcheng were actually full.

Many corporate executives had to travel to Shudu and Yudu for transfers.

The technology giants in Silicon Valley and the financial giants in Wall Street also took action. Everyone realized that this was at least a tens-billion-dollar project, and Hornbill really had the ability to sweep Google into the dustbin of history.

“Before today, I could hardly imagine a technology company in a Southeast Asian country making a search engine better than Google.

Although limited by computing power, it cannot provide global and global services to every user.

But it still demonstrates the ability.

Although these two features now require payment, users who are willing to pay are still a minority, and most users will continue to choose Google because of the cost. "

“It’s not important, is it?
Since Hornbill has proven that they have the ability to replace Google, there will be countless capitals in the world sponsoring them and providing them with financial support sufficient to defeat Google.

This financial support is enough for Hornbill to provide free AI search engine services to users around the world.

After cultivating enough user habits, we can consider charging. Besides, Google has already thought through the search engine's profit model very clearly. Is it difficult to add advertisements in tab push?
Hornbill is a sword of Damocles hanging over Google's head that could fall at any time. As for when it will fall, it all depends on Samad's personal wishes.

I'm really curious about Samad's true identity. How could such a talent emerge in Malaysia?" "You're right. From the perspective of capital, if a player who can truly challenge Google appears in the search engine field, we will not hesitate to provide it with ammunition to defeat Google. Even if it costs $100 billion, it will be worthwhile if we can grab Google's market share.

Bing's entire market share is less than 10%, but it still spent billion.

I see a lot of people on Twitter guessing that Samad is Satoshi Nakamoto. Although it is impossible to say that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, he is definitely a well-known figure in the academic community.

I think it will be a while before his true identity is revealed."

“It’s hard to imagine that with the advent of the artificial intelligence era, the first giant to fall would be Google.”

Two partners from a Wall Street investment firm were having a conversation on the plane.

When they heard the other party say that the first giant to fall was Google, one of them concluded that Google would fall, given that Hornbill had only launched its Global Access service for less than 24 hours, while the partner sitting next to him did not even question it.

The essential logic behind this is that a large number of Wall Street financial institutions will sponsor Alpha Technologies to burn money and defeat Google. For Google, Hornbill does not need to defeat them, he only needs to grab a sufficient market share from Google, and Google will be finished.

This is impressive enough that you don't even need half of it, one third is enough.

The reason why Google's advertising business had so much revenue and profit in the past was essentially because Google was the absolute majority in the search engine field, and it actually constituted a relative monopoly. This relative monopoly led to absolute pricing power for advertising revenue.

Once this relative monopoly position is lost and the company only occupies a majority market share, advertising revenue will not decrease proportionally, and therefore the market value will not decrease proportionally either.

What's more, the strength demonstrated by Hornbill is obviously not only able to seize a part of Google's market, but Hornbill is likely to seize most of Google's market.

Both partners see this very clearly. Google is not far from collapse, and its ending will be fundamentally no different from that of the Silicon Valley giants that have fallen in history.

"If AlphaGo further optimizes Hornbill, it may even threaten the status of other question-answering AIs."

“It’s not a possibility, it’s a certainty.

I have a hunch that Alpha Technologies will be the first giant in the field of artificial intelligence to emerge in the era of artificial intelligence.

The skills they have demonstrated are enough to prove that they have the ability, and Samad has even more ambition to do so.

The only thing I am worried about now is that Alpha Technology will not accept financing. After all, Samad has made too much money in the field of cryptocurrency, and he has no shortage of capital to burn in the early stages.

The growing number of users of the Libra exchange he has launched now has provided him with a steady stream of cash flow.”

This is not only a concern of Wall Street elites, but also a concern of Princess Amina.

While Hornbill's sudden emergence attracted global attention, Princess Amina naturally also noticed it. She was pleased with the progress of Alpha Technology, after all, she had shares in it. At the same time, she also realized that she might not be able to keep this piece of cake.

If the valuation is based on graphics card assets, there will be no problem considering her power in Malaysia. But if the valuation is based on the entire Google, not to mention her, even her father, the current Sultan of Malaysia, cannot protect it.

"Princess Amina, Mr. Samad wants to speak to you directly." After rushing to the princess's most frequent residence, Oraz bowed and said.

In 2012, the Sultan of Johor issued a decree that only the place where the king lives can be called a palace, and the place where relatives live can only be called a residence.

Princess Amina nodded slightly: "How did he communicate with me?"

"Please wait a moment. Mr. Samad will call and say that now is not the right time for him to show up." After saying this, Oraz had a thought in his mind: they are about to fight Google head-on, and now is not the right time for him to show up. Then when will it be the right time for him to show up?
Amina had the same idea. It was no wonder that such a big stir could be caused in just half a year with such a loud tone.

"Hello, Princess Amina, I'm here to talk to you about Alpha Technology.

You should also know that after Alpha Technologies was launched, it received attention from the global capital market. According to the information I have received, financial institutions and technology giants in major regions such as America, China, and Europe are sending people to Johor to try to find us for negotiations.

They want a seat at the table to carve up Google.”

The voice on the phone had a strong AI flavor. Even after Amina cooperated with Samad, she sent people to spy on his true identity, but to no avail. In the process of spying, she ruled out the possibility that Oraz was Samad.

Amina frowned slightly. She certainly couldn't withstand such great pressure, even if the other party was willing to give up their interests again.

“I understand, so what do I need to do? Or what can I do?
Compared with financial institutions on Wall Street, Malaysia is not strong enough to compete, especially if they threaten financial attacks, I may not be able to give you the results you want. "Aminah said.

"Currently, the number of Hornbill registered users has exceeded 300 million, the number of users who have activated Global Access has exceeded 100 million, and the number of users who have activated Global Access has exceeded million, and this number is still increasing.

In the foreseeable future, it is only a matter of time before Hornbill beats Google in the search engine arena.

Our only concern is regulation. Different regulatory strategies in different countries may lead to Hornbill being banned.

Therefore, we need to accept appropriate external financing to solve this problem.”

As soon as these words came out, Amina breathed a sigh of relief. All she had to do was accept the financing. Accepting the financing meant bringing more allies on board, and then she would have no pressure at all.

She was afraid that Samad was an idealist who was particularly averse to capital, and she hoped that she could withstand the pressure from Washington and Yenching.

Amina now feels a little regretful, because Alpha Technology gave her shares based on equal shares but different voting rights, which means that it only has economic value, but very few voting rights.

Considering that accepting external financing would mean that the company would be listed sooner or later, and these 30% shares would mean huge profits, she couldn't help but get excited.

"I agree with your decision," Amina said.

“So regarding financing, I hope you can serve as Alpha Technology’s representative to contact representatives from all parties.

Our appeal is very simple. Alpha Technology’s financing only accepts the form of A/B shares. Investors can only enjoy the dividends brought by Alpha Technology’s development, but cannot obtain control of Alpha Technology. They can sign a bet agreement.

Given Hornbill’s global presence, investors can help prevent any potential restrictions on Hornbill in their countries.

For example, the ban by the American Congress, restricted access in China, restricted access in the European Union, etc. Of course, in order to enter these markets, we can make adjustments that are in line with their countries.

Finally, we will use all the funds raised in this round of financing to expand the scale of our data center. Alpha Technology cannot move out of Malaysia and will continue to operate in Malaysia for a long time."

(End of this chapter)