309. New algorithm
"I believe that in the future, most people will use smartphones. Understanding current affairs through mobile phones will become a big demand. I want to make a news and information mobile app and want to hear your opinions."
After Luo Xiu finished speaking, he glanced at everyone and waited for their feedback.
However, no one spoke after half a minute.
This situation shows that they are not optimistic about the boss's ideas, but they dare not raise it in person.
If the boss’s suggestion is a little feasible, everyone wants to shout loudly that the boss is right, the boss is wise and powerful.
Don't think that programmers don't know how to flatter.
Luo Xiu had no choice but to call him, "Yang Tianqi, please tell me."
"Boss, this APP market has been saturated. NetEase, Sina, Baidu and other websites have been doing these things. They used to have the basis of a PC platform and could transfer users to the APP, but we don't have any foundation."
After Yang Tianqi finished speaking, he looked at the boss nervously, afraid that he would cause the other party to be unhappy.
Other employees silently recited in their hearts: Don’t call me, I can’t see me, I am a transparent person.
It’s like a poor student who is afraid of being named by the teacher to answer questions.
"Zhang Junjie, what do you think?"
"Well, I also think Senior Brother Yang's statement makes sense. We are still weak in information platforms and have no foundation. It is difficult to compete with the giants..."
"I want to explain it." Luo Xiu interrupted him, "The products I want to make are different from previous portals and Weibo. Currently, the methods of distributing information on the Internet are usually the following two types:
The first is that the customer actively searches for keywords. For example, I am a fan of a certain star. If I want to know her dynamics, I enter the star's name in the search bar.
The biggest problem with this method is that the search results are not necessarily what I want to watch. I want to watch the positive news about the star, but it turned out to be a bunch of cheating scandals for me. That was too annoying.
The second type is the recommendation of the platform editor. If I click on the entertainment section of the platform, I will see a large number of celebrity news pushed by the platform.
The biggest problem with this method is that you can only see what the platform gives you, feed you shit, you can only eat shit.
The NetEase, Sina and Baidu you just gave all push information to users based on the above two methods.”
Luo Xiu said a lot in one breath.
"Is there a third way?" Zhao Jianye asked.
"What I want to do is the third type. Our system can automatically match the content he is interested in according to the user's reading habits. For example, it will match Zhao Jianye [Shock! The force of the sweeping monk in Jin Yong's martial arts world can only be ranked first.
Third, the first one is him!!!]; and Li Shan opened this APP and the homepage was full of pictures of beautiful women.”
After hearing this, Zhao Jianye stood up angrily, "This is a slander. Can't I like the pictures of beautiful women?"
"That's about it. I need you to help me develop an intelligent recommendation algorithm that can intelligently identify information that users are interested in and push this information to users. People who follow sports news will push the World Cup and European Cup to them.
, NBA and other star information, those who follow celebrity gossip will recommend those paparazzi accounts to them."
"Mr. Luo's idea is interesting. It's like I often go shopping in Hupu, and it's mainly boys. The posts I post are also biased towards boys, scolding girls for asking for high brides, cheating, making unreasonable noises, and being very unfriendly to girls."
"That's right, I used to visit Douban, but later it gradually became a women's forum. The content that can be retained is to cater to girls, scold mother-in-law, and scumbags, and have a lot of malicious intentions towards boys."
"Then Huang Yi has the most black areas."
"Zhihu pretending to be a concentrating criminal."
"Why did Zhihu show off? Isn't it just that the income is a little higher?"
"You blackened my Douban, why can't I blackened your Zhihu?"
...
A good meeting was about to start fighting because of my favorite platform.
"Okay, stop arguing." Luo Xiu stopped them. "I will lead this project in person, and I will be your product manager."
"This...isn't it?"
The programmers were a little nervous when they heard that the boss was going to lead the team.
They love and fight with product managers every day, and often fight for unreasonable needs, curse, and even fight.
If the product manager is the boss, no matter how unreasonable the demand is, they can only accept it.
The boss said you want to get me a special effect that can fly to the sky. You can only say that you are not capable enough, and you cannot say that your boss’s needs are unreasonable.
Even the slogans on the computer desktop have to be removed.
"Do you have any opinions?" Luo Xiu asked.
"Boss, you're a little embarrassed to do this, right?"
"That's it, just find a product manager."
"Boss, you have a lot of trouble every day, I'm really embarrassed to bother you."
"Rice balls and Pinru need you more."
...
Luo Xiu waved his hand, "This project is of great importance, and it can even be said to determine our life and death. We cannot fail to lose it. I am not at ease if I don't stare at it myself."
"Okay boss, I will draw out all colleagues with strong recommendation algorithms and form a new working group."
Luo Xiu nodded and signaled Yang Tianqi to do it quickly.
It is not exaggeration to say that this project is related to the life and death of the company.
In the future, Alibaba and Penguin will both acquire Internet companies in large quantities.
Everyone found that most of the companies acquired by Alibaba ended up badly.
At that time, everyone used the most popular music, Xiami Music was shut down, Tudou and Youku merged, and later it was also going downhill. Ele.me and Gaode Map were also slowly at a disadvantage in the competition.
Penguin invests often get better and better, and they go public one after another.
There are many reasons for this. Perhaps Alibaba's culture is too poor and it is impossible to transplant it to other companies.
Perhaps the executives who have been aired in Alibaba always want to bring Alibaba's way of doing things, but it simply won't work.
However, the most fundamental reason is that Taobao itself is a traffic black hole. Most of the companies acquired by Alibaba must serve Taobao until they are sucked away by Taobao.
On the contrary, Penguin itself is a machine that produces traffic, and what it lacks is how to monetize these traffic.
The companies acquired by Penguin can often receive continuous traffic support from Penguin, and then monetize traffic through these companies.
One sucks blood, and the other feeds back.
The result is of course that the former is getting thinner and thinner, while the latter is getting fatter and fatter.
The future bytes have traffic second only to Penguin, and what he lacks is the machine to monetize these traffic.
So on the one hand, Bytes cooperates with Alibaba, and on the other hand, it is also building its own mall.
The rice balls that Luo Xiu now owns are all monetized machines. If you make up bytes, it is equivalent to gathering the strengths of Ali and Penguin.
Chapter completed!