People search dormant period: layout mobile Internet or introduce strategic investor

After announcing the change of name in June 2011, people search into a low-key dormant period. June 20, the people search chief Scientist Liu accepted Sohu It's interview, narrated in the past year the People search layout and development.

According to Liu's revelations, people search for a mobile internet team of 40-50 people over the past year, and will launch instant browser and instant news of the mobile app, while people search is also trying to work with more than 360 other Internet companies in a low-key search for embedding, and today, The search engine Company has also officially started testing water for commercialization.

At the same time, Liu says, mobile phones and social networks could be a driving force in changing the market share of search engines. He also believes that internet companies have to do mobile phones is only a simplistic "race", not from the user experience point of view, will eventually be discarded by users.

It is reported that at the end of June 2010, the People's search test version of the official online, by the People's Daily and People's online joint venture to build the popular search Network AG is responsible for operations. Last June 20, the people who operated for a year searched for new domain name jike.com and new logo, and changed the brand of original people search to Instant Search. Yesterday, people search to enable the new design logo.

The following is an interview with the finishing record:

Technology trapping period

Sohu it: From last June to now, what is your main work?

Liu: Mainly we are in the complement of our technology, people search is a new search engine company, and other research and development for several years of search engine companies, we also need to complement all aspects of technology, such as news search, mobile phone page display technology. From last year to now, this should also be the people search technology accumulation and improvement period.

Recruitment rate: 3 per thousand

Sohu It: People search the current number of employees?

Liu: We currently have about 300 employees, 70% of whom are research and development, and a high percentage of graduate and PhD employees.

Sohu it: I heard that people search recruitment rate is very low?

Liu: Yes. Our admissions rate is only 3 per thousand. Before, Tsinghua, Peking University and other well-known university graduate students heard that we recruit, think just the general state-owned enterprise recruitment, came over the written examination, interview, finally, they found that our problem is difficult.

Sohu It: Why are technicians and graduates willing to come to the people to search? Because you can provide an account? Or because you're a state-owned enterprise?

Liu: That's certainly not the main reason. I think people search attract talent mainly depends on the following factors: our entrepreneurial atmosphere is very strong, some engineers in the giant internet companies are just screwing screws, in the people search is to build machines, they are more sense of achievement; People search technology platform is very advanced, even if some from the big internet companies to switch over, I feel like I can learn something new. As for the treatment you are talking about, our treatment is only moderate in the search industry.

Low-key and 360 cooperation

Sohu it: The most important search engine is traffic, people search did not carry out large-scale marketing, then how do you attract traffic?

Liu: We actually work with a lot of home sites. For example, many websites in the system use the people search, in addition, for example, Qihoo 360 some of the default search is also quietly cooperation with us.

Sohu It: Why do many websites within the system adopt your search engine? Is it because the relevant departments have requested?

Liu: The country does not have this requirement, I think it is because these websites recognize our technology and platform. At the same time, the current pattern of the Internet is also more conducive to us, the current search engine pattern when Baidu a single large, we still expect to have different services. In addition, people search in the commercialization of more cautious.