Chapter 100: Chat Room

"Li Nan, wait, there is one more thing."

Li Nan was about to leave when Chen Yu said again.

"Mr. Chen, what's the matter?"

"Well, how long will it take you to have an instant messenger now?"

"Mr. Chen, do you really want to engage in instant messaging?"

Li Nan was excited.

He knew for a long time that Chen Yu couldn't keep running game websites all the time.

This is not to say that gaming sites have no future.

There is a future for gaming websites, but no matter how promising it is, it can't be compared to instant messaging.

"This, try it first, but our positioning is somewhat different from ordinary instant messaging."

"Mr. Chen, can you tell me what you think?"

"This...it's hard to say right now."

"The technical difficulty of instant messaging is not too difficult, and I can do it in a day."

"No way."

Chen Yu was stunned: "It's done in one day, are you hanging up?"

"Hehe, Mr. Chen, don't forget that I was the developer of UC, and I have the source code of UC here."

"UC source code?"

Chen Yu was taken aback and said, "Isn't this from Xinlang?"

"Xinlang had initial investment intentions at the time, but then Penguin was too strong, and our UC failed. Later, Xinlang wanted to develop it by ourselves, and then our UC team was disbanded, and the source code finally belonged to me. ."

"Is there a copyright issue?"

"I can guarantee that there is no problem, the source code is now completely mine."

"Okay, the company paid 100,000 to buy your UC source code."

"Mr. Chen, don't be so much."

"It's okay, who told you to give me a surprise, I thought it would take several months to get it done. Since you have the UC source code, that's great. Go back and modify the source code. In addition, add a brand new one. Function."

"What function?"

"chatroom."

Li Nan was a little puzzled: "Isn't it a technological regression to add chat rooms to instant messaging? Besides, with instant messaging, it seems that chat rooms are not needed."

In the early days of the Internet, forums and chat rooms were more popular.

The forum may be used by everyone.

As for chat rooms, there are some like the live streaming rooms now.

It's just that the live broadcast is audio and video, but the early chat rooms are text.

Everyone entered this chat room because of a topic, and had a chat with each other.

Only later with the emergence of instant messaging, chat rooms will slowly decline.

Chen Yu said that adding a chat room to instant messaging, for Li Nan, there are indeed some technical regressions.

"In terms of technology, there are indeed some regressions, but instant messaging is not the whole of social interaction. Although chat rooms will gradually be replaced by instant messaging, in many cases instant messaging cannot replace chat rooms. You do it first, and then the time comes. You will know the effect. Of course, after completing the guild system first."

"Yes, Mr. Chen."

Although I am still puzzled, as Chen Yu said, what the effect will be, we will see after it is made.

...

Sohu Games Division.

Sohu, one of the four major portals, recently saw that NetEase made a lot of money in the game, and Zhang Chaoyang, who has always been an old Jianghu, couldn't sit still. He established the Sohu Game Division, preparing to enter the field of online games. .

However, it is not the same as NetEase.

Although Sohu also makes games, in addition to making games himself, he also plans to develop a game portal.

After all, it was the portal website that started, and Zhang Chaoyang knew the role of the portal website too well.

In this way, the production and publicity are all in their own hands, so why worry about their own game not being popular, this is called being prepared.

To this end, Sohu immediately acquired 17173.com.

Of course, Sohu initially wanted to acquire 5173, but after a bit of calculation, some of them were not worth it. After all, the Internet bubble in 2000 left Sohu with no surplus, and its pockets collapsed. Otherwise, it would not have thought of making money in the game. Thinking like this, it is better to buy a 17173 with some experience but not much money.

With the diversion of its own Sohu portal, 17173 can definitely win 5173 quickly.

At this time, Gu Yongqiang was in charge of Sohu's game division.

Gu Yongqiang went to Australia to study at the age of 14, and later was admitted to Berkeley, California, majoring in economics. After graduating, he worked in Bain Capital for a period of time, and then returned to China to invest in Wells Fargo and became famous in the investment field. In 1998, Gu Yongqiang began to pay attention to the Internet and met Zhang Chaoyang of Sohu. Originally, Gu Yongqiang wanted to invest in Sohu, but Zhang Chaoyang found that Gu Yongqiang was in harmony with him, so he said directly, don't come to invest in me, just come to Sohu to be the president.

With the joining of Gu Yongqiang, it is also because Gu Yongqiang has a capital background. Sohu has grown rapidly in a short period of time, and was listed in the United States as soon as possible.

This time Sohu established an online game division, and Zhang Chaoyang dispatched Gu Yongqiang. It can be seen that Sohu attaches great importance to online games.

"Mr. Gu, I didn't expect 5173's counterattack to be so fast."

"We just signed the contract, and 5173 advertised on major websites like crazy."

"If we fight like this, we may have a hard time getting up."

It was Cai Zongjian, the founder of 17173, who spoke to Gu Yongqiang.

Cai Zongjian wears a pair of glasses and looks very gentle.

He turned out to be just a game enthusiast, and originally founded 17173 purely as a hobby.

He likes to collect a series of information about online games, but gradually the traffic of 17173 is getting bigger and bigger, he found that this hobby can be regarded as his career, so he began to fully invest in the construction of 17173. It's just a pity that 17173 did not develop for too long, and 5173 was killed halfway.

Cai Zongjian, who had no funds, was quickly defeated in the competition of 5173.

Originally acquired by Sohu this time, Cai Zongjian thought he could quickly kill 5173 with the help of the traffic from the Sohu portal. But before they could do anything, 5173 quickly killed them.

"Xiao Cai, I investigated 5173. They don't have a lot of money to spend on advertising. At most, they spend a week, and they may not be able to survive."

"But we are a little passive in this way, and their advertising words are too shameless. It is still the first portal of 5173 games. It is still unknown who is first and who is second."

"Don't worry about these, when their funds can't hold up, our new game channel will be officially launched."

"OK."

Cai Zongjian nodded and said, "By the way, Mr. Gu, I heard that 5173 has also sent advertisements to our Sohu?"

"There is such a thing."

"Isn't this disgusting, do you still want us Sohu to advertise him?"

"It really disgusts us."

Gu Yongqiang smiled: "However, what is this disgusting, I asked the people from the advertising department to agree."

"Ah, Mr. Gu, I really advertised them."

"The money sent to the door is not profitable. Besides, how long can they last? Don't worry, 5173 is just a small website. We Sohu Portal can't kill a small website?"

Patting Cai Zongjian's shoulder, Gu Yongqiang drank tea leisurely.