Chapter 2954 King

After hearing this, Feng Yiping sat down next to him with a lot of things, "What do I have to envy?"

Is this guy jealous that I have many children?

He and Paige knew Huang Jingping and Amanda from a long time ago, and they also knew that he and Zhang Yan got married naturally in 2009.

The fourth child, Jui Jui, was born last year, and they all gave gifts...

Maybe they could even guess who the child in Jin Ling's belly was?

Hehe, I can only be really embarrassed about this.

"Will Facebook's users soon exceed 1.1 billion?" Brin said.

Oh, it turns out to be this.

"Not that fast, buddy," Feng Yiping laughed.

After years of hard work by Feng Yiping, on February 13 this year, the eve of Valentine’s Day, Facebook’s registered users finally officially exceeded the 1 billion mark!

"You know, developing the next billion users will be much more difficult than it is now,"

Brin shook his head, "Not necessarily. Facebook's products, such as WhatsApp, have the potential to have 1 billion users, don't they?"

Of course, this is true. The number of WhatsApp users has now exceeded 500 million, and it is also growing rapidly.

It turned out that Feng Yiping had never used Facebook, and he also knew that WhatsApp was Facebook’s most expensive acquisition, so how could he spend this unjust money again?

Therefore, the product that Zuckerberg and the others were ordered to launch before Christmas in 2008 was WhatsApp.

"They have duplicate users, man," Feng Yiping explained.

"No," Brin shook his head, "There will be a certain amount of repetition, but it is not the case in terms of users' usage habits. We all know that Facebook puts more emphasis on the concept of friend circles, while WhatsApp focuses on instant messaging."

"Hey, your analysis is right," Feng Yiping patted his shoulder, looking very pleased.

"There is also another product you launched in 2008, Instagram. Many commentators were not too optimistic about it at the beginning, but its monthly active users exceeded 300 million at the end of last year. It also has great potential, right?"

Feng Yiping continued hehehe, "Well, you know, at that time I just thought that the visual network would develop rapidly, so online photos would increase significantly,"

Page looked at him and continued, "Not to mention, the ephemeral product you launched in the third quarter of last year, Snapchat, has once again led the development trend,"

"Well," Feng Yiping said seriously, "that's because after we analyzed the growth rate of users, their usage habits, and listened to the opinions of many users, we felt that a considerable number of people no longer Just like in the beginning, I am very happy to share all aspects of my updates on Facebook,”

"After all, there will be bad aspects in everyone's life, and no one is willing to share them. Also," he paused, "of course it is also because of privacy issues,"

"So we felt at that time that we had to make changes. Unexpectedly, the response to the launch of this new product was really good,"

"What we didn't expect was that more and more users would send business secrets through Snapchat,"

In short, the research and development of these products can be said to be a necessary response. The success of these products is at best unexpected... It is not that I am very, very far-sighted.

But Brin seemed unmoved. After all, they are among the people who know Feng Yiping best. "Others include the live broadcast you launched..."

"The launch of such star products one after another is dizzying, making your followers unable to keep up with you, and making Rupert Murdoch look shameless."

"That," Feng Yiping smiled, "should be expected. We knew from the beginning that it would be difficult for an outsider like News Corporation to run such a project well."

Brin also smiled, "Yes, that makes the people of Silicon Valley happy again,"

Because of the temporary success of MySpace, some people at News Corporation made some remarks that the so-called Silicon Valley is nothing more than that.

But who could have expected that the slap in the face came too quickly. The valuation once exceeded US$10 billion, which made Murdoch decide that MySpace would generate revenue of US$1 billion a year at least. After 2008, the situation took a turn for the worse.

By the end of last year, Murdoch quietly sold out the assets he had always talked about for a mere US$30 million.

Industry estimates put his total losses on the MySpace project at close to $1.5 billion.

"Haha," Feng Yiping laughed again, "I don't believe you still care about this,"

As a representative of American high-tech companies, how could Google pay attention to disruptors like News Corporation?

"But compared to Facebook, which is so dynamic, Google can now be regarded by many users as an old company like IBM and Microsoft back then," Brin said.

Feng Yiping immediately said, "How can Google, whose revenue has been growing rapidly, be an old company?"

Brin's focus was not on this, "I mean, man, you don't have any good ideas about Google lately?"

Feng Yiping rubbed his forehead helplessly, "We have discussed the future of search from the beginning. In the future, everything should be searchable, and search is everything. But to achieve such a goal, man, we have to wait for the relevant conditions to mature. ,"

"Aren't we currently working on relevant technology research and development?"

He knew that at least Brin personally felt the pressure on the booming Facebook.

Although Feng Yiping, Page, and Brin already had a tacit understanding about future development, Brin still felt pressure at this time.

I have to say, this is not surprising.

In the second quarter of last year, according to data from the US Internet traffic monitoring agency Hitwise, Facebook's visits accounted for 8.07% of the total visits to US websites, ranking first in the United States. Google, which had been leading before, ranked second. The proportion of visits is 7.01%.

If you add YouTube, which ranks fifth, accounting for 2.21%, and NEXTDOOR, which covers most households in the United States, then Feng Yiping’s company can be said to be far ahead of Google. This is exactly what Feng Yiping originally said about Sang. DeBerg said that in the mobile Internet era, the traffic of social software should be higher than that of search engines.

"Google is not an old company. Last year's revenue was close to 30 billion U.S. dollars. This year, judging from the situation in the first quarter, I think 40 billion U.S. dollars is not a problem." Feng Yiping put his arm around Brin's shoulders, "Man , Microsoft is jealous!”

"The key is, whether it's Microsoft or other companies, no matter how jealous they are, they can only be jealous because they have no way to get a piece of the pie,"

"Of course, we have to talk about Yahoo, right?" Feng Yiping knew that they had a problem with Yahoo. "Mr. Sun was so aggressive at the beginning, but now, they have not made any progress in developing new areas such as social networking and e-commerce. On the contrary, in the fields of search and online advertising, where we have a certain foundation, we are losing ground."

"I think in a few years, if Google is interested, they can just pluck a hair off their thigh and acquire it,"

Brin became really happy, "Do you think we should acquire it?"

"If the price is right, why not?" Feng Yiping said, "Just think of it as spending some money to realize your dream."

"We can't be as rich and willful as you," Brin said. "Also, why is it more difficult to develop the second 1 billion users? Is this difficult for you?"

"It's quite difficult," Feng Yiping said seriously.

"Have you forgotten that you are also the major shareholder of China's largest social software?"

"Oh, look, aren't they two companies?" Feng Yiping argued, "Moreover, it has been limited to the Chinese market so far,"

With his supervision and heavy financial encouragement, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley spent a lot of effort and finally lived up to his expectations. In the second quarter of 2009, they finally won the South African MIH that he had coveted for a long time.

As a result, he also became the majority shareholder of Penguin.

But according to the original agreement, he would not interfere with Penguin's daily operations - because he felt that Penguin's development did not require his intervention at all.

"Foreign social software can't get in, right?" Brin was really envious.

Abroad, Facebook, Twitter, and other series of products have swept the world. In China, he is the major shareholder of the largest social software company, so it can be said that he is the king of social networks in the world.

"Dear, no matter what, you don't have to worry," Feng Yiping said. "In the field of online advertising, search has a natural advantage over social networking sites."

"You see, Facebook's search results all come from its users. Compared with Google's massive search results, the quality is far different. Therefore, our advertising click-through rate will inevitably be lower than Google's,"

"Advertisers, therefore, will definitely favor Google,"

"Relax, Google will always be the king!"

But he also knew that it was time to do something.