Liu face the storm: So, there is no competition

The Spring Festival holiday just after, the micro-letter on the Liu because of immediate search leadership dissatisfaction, leading to lead the chief scientist may be out of the rumors. March 4, immediately search for the chief scientist, the founder and president of the network Liu accepted the Economic Observer newspaper exclusive interview, said that no change in the position of the notice, and so and the immediate cooperation of the contract is still. The immediate search within the system and the search between the returnees and so the story twists and turns.

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February 27, immediately search general manager Deng Yaping appeared in the company's press conference, unlike in the past, this time she did not arrange media interviews. Two years ago, Gongyu, the founder and deputy general manager of the search (then the "People Search"), Liu was invited concurrently to search for the chief scientist at the same time. Then immediately search abandoned the Chinese Academy of Sciences Technology Framework, the use of Liu Team and so search technology.

Liu has served in Microsoft, the United States and Google China. After Google moved away from China in 2010, Liu led the technology team to create cloud soil company. Soon after, Deng Yaping was appointed as the general manager of the people's search, and began to search professionals for the company. Her approach is to make internet and search-related companies visit, and then get a variety of feedback, including their own evaluation of each other. After the cloud to the company casing, visit, negotiate, choose at that time already has forty or fifty people of the scale of cloud company to do technical support. "They provide us with a stage where our technology can be useful, developed and mature." Our company started up on a few people, now to such a scale, I think people search for our contribution is very big. "Liu said. "The immediate team was no better than the present," he said, "and I'm talking about technology, which is far from the same company as it is now." ”

Liu not only gives instant Google the kind of international advanced programming, development processes, methods and ways of thinking, has not immediately trained their own team. Nurturing an immediate team is also an important task for cloud and instant collaboration, and it also involves attracting talent. Technology people may be more easily with the technology of the people together, is a snowball process.

Cloud soil also to the people search for technical requirements, the server's procurement needs, models, numbers, etc., in this case to build the people to search the original hardware architecture. This year after the Spring festival in the micro-letter spread of news that Liu once forced people to search for hundreds of machines, is wasting the country's money, and led Deng Yaping was criticized by the leadership. To this, Liu response: "Only invest hundreds of servers, to engage in search engine this thing is impossible, how also have thousands of scale, big search engines are tens of thousands of machines of the scale, Google has millions of Taiwan." Because the Internet even has only one search task, but also need to see the whole internet to answer. If you do an instant search such a large network search engine only buy hundreds of servers, that is to save money for the country. Who can use hundreds of sets, I worship him as a teacher!

People search and Google, a system within a foreign capital, working in a very different way, people are often searched by various external forces constraints. However, this did not affect the honeymoon period between the two sides, and until now, the cloud has launched its own brand of such search, Liu also do not believe that there is competition between the immediate search. "Not to talk about money first, it is from the point of view of doing things, we also get great benefits." Of course people search also get a lot of benefits from our technology ah these. Liu said, "I think the technology of cloud soil is absolutely the most advanced in China." Because our technology is learned from the beginning, and then use a lot of new internet environment. For example, most search engines now have a black hole for social information. We first solved the search engine and micro-blog information how to blend together, this and the original search engine architecture is completely different, so we do this research ah, the two sides are a total win. ”

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So cloud soil to the immediate technical output is there any reservations, immediately whether the technology open cloud soil is not enough? I don't think it's a competitive relationship. Instant Search has been more than two years, and so the search online although only two months, from any point of view we are just up. If I use an image to say, Deng Yaping in the national team, and table tennis players, do you think they are competitors? They have been playing teams all the time. But there is only one final world championship, so they are competitors, but they are also a team. So I think the so-called competitors are narrowly understood. Anyone who does business, if a little more discerning, doesn't see it that way. We are the cooperation and the mutual win relationship. I think our vision is much higher than any conspiracy theory, we do not need to consider this thing, our state is far higher than the competition. ”

Liu also use "admire" appraisal Deng Yaping: "I think she is very capable, very clever." When the world champion is really not easy, I admire her, if I do not recognize her ability and expectations of her future, I will not be able to cooperate with her. ”

On February 28, immediately after the press conference, there is news that the Deputy editor-in-chief of the People's Daily Zhang Shanju Airborne as the executive deputy general manager of day-to-day management, while deputy general manager Wang temporarily take over Liu responsible for the network research and development work. This statement is not able to get Instant Search confirmation, immediately search PR director said that the current immediate search directly under the leadership of the propaganda department, the media attitude requires a layer of approval process, and the process can not provide a timetable. As a rare and systematic color of the immediate search, from the birth to today's change adjustment, are affected by many strong factors.

The immediate search management team's reorientation has changed, including continuing to retain the role of Liu Chief scientist, while the technical cooperation for instant Search and search will remain unchanged, according to people close to the top.

But that does not mean that the differences between the moment and the moment disappear. "Instantly search the board's hope that it will be able to disclose all of the search technology, and so on to get the immediate search shares and other means of value recognition." In addition, Instant Search has been building its own technical strength and strengthen the industry cooperation. "People who are close to immediate search say. However, Liu said that the business model of immediate cooperation is confidential to both sides and cannot be disclosed.

This year's search has significantly strengthened the market strategy.

Before the Spring Festival, immediately search on the force to launch the "Rob Ticket" service. Deng Yaping publicly revealed that immediate search will focus on promoting the livelihood of the search and the livelihood of large data exploration.

The search for Sina's investment has also been launched on December 18, 2012. Starting last November. After the Sina Weibo, the interface can be directly linked to the search and so on. These Sina Weibo search results are provided by cloud company, which has micro-blog search, but also the results of web search. "At present this kind of technology is not only other search cannot do, Sina also can not do, if you use Sina Weibo account login, you will see my friend to pay attention to which, completely is personalized." Web search personalization is definitely my development direction. "Liu said. As for the long-term adherence to external technology output, he said, "The National Library project we will continue to develop, it because there are some late projects, but as to whether it will continue to do such things, is not sure." Because doing a search is a big investment, not just money issues, but also people. But our technology is there to prove that we can do something like that and it helps us up. This is what startups can do, this will not be the mainstream of the business I am not so sure. ”