Will innovation become a tool for small and medium-sized companies to challenge Giants?

Absrtact: In the heavy-mode, light technology of the Internet environment, innovation will become small and medium-sized companies to challenge the big weapon? A few days ago, in the Geek Park Innovation Conference held in Beijing Olympic Sports Center, AO Ya Club. The carnival of this product, the event of innovation, product, innovation

In the "heavy mode, light technology" of the Internet environment, innovation will become small and medium-sized companies to challenge the big weapon?

A few days ago, in the Geek Park Innovation Conference held in Beijing Olympic Sports Center, AO Ya Club. This "product Carnival, innovative event", products, innovation, services, etc. also become Baidu Robin Li, 360 Zhou, Sogou Wang Xiaoquan and other companies big talk about the key words. In addition, Google Chairman Schmidt, Innovation workshop Kai-Fu Lee also visited the scene.

"Innovative Products Award" is the highlight of the conference, by the product Community Geek Park, "business Value" magazine, mini China, Innovation Workshop and many other institutions launched, known as the Chinese Internet "product Oscar." Conference, mobile Internet applications into the award-winning, micro-trust public platform, Sing Bar, PA and other products received a higher appreciation, and Sogou get the most of the 3 nominations, and by virtue of mobile phone users welcome the "number Pass" monopoly gold the most important "annual Innovation Product Award." Last year's Award for micro-credit, this shows its weight.

"This is the industry's ability to sogou technology product recognition, but also calls for the return of the spirit of Internet innovation." Sogou CEO Wang Xiaoquan said, Sogou is a technology innovation to maintain high growth of the company, the award is "crowdsourcing" philosophy to feed netizens.

"Crowdsourcing" Product philosophy

Crowdsourcing is gradually becoming the forefront of the Internet company consensus, and more and more adopted to.

The so-called crowdsourcing (crowdsourcing) refers to the practice of a company or organization to outsource to a neutral (and usually large) mass network in a free and voluntary manner, in the form of tasks previously performed by employees. Relying on the vast number of Internet data and the participation of netizens, not only in product research and development design fully integrated the advantages of the Internet, but also to upgrade the product experience to a new height.

Wang Xiaoquan said: "The essence of the Internet is service." Our product idea is crowdsourcing, that is, through technology to extract the wisdom of the entire Internet, and then through technical innovation feedback to the entire netizen. The core function of the number pass "user annotation, user share" deeply loved, it is the embodiment of this philosophy. "It is reported that the" Sogou number "ground-breaking use of" crowdsourcing "thinking and search technology, to help users smart tag strange calls, the answer to the telephone before the ownership, purpose and" pull black "history to judge.

Breaking through the jungle exerting force mobile interconnection

In fact, only one successful product is not enough to allow Sogou to survive in the Internet jungle. From the internet giants of repression and barriers to the industry's innovative environment to bring a lot of bad demonstrations.

In the gap to find the vitality of the Sogou, through the continuous force in technology and innovation, Sogou input method, browser, search and other trends to develop and form a "three-stage rocket" development model, the real sogou into the development of the "fast track."

and into the mobile internet era, this unique development model is being transplanted, the number pass, Sogou voice assistant, Sogou road navigation and other strategic products continue to launch, Sogou in the mobile network and attract the Tens users. "Mobile internet more focus on innovation and user experience, only the service and experience good enough products to have user stickiness." "Wang Xiaoquan that in the large data era," crowdsourcing "mode, more and more attention, innovative soil and play is changing, for the company and the Giants game increased" weight. "

As a advocating "engineer culture" company, Sogou has always adhered to the "technology-driven" development path, two years after the independence of Sohu ushered in the best development period. At present, the number of Sogou users up to 400 million fourth, at the same time is considered to be the most innovative and most dynamic one of the Internet enterprises.

Data show that since the August 2010 spin-off, Sogou revenue for two consecutive years to maintain more than three-digit quarterly growth. Sogou in the third quarter of 2012 revenue of 37 million U.S. dollars, the same period 2011 growth of 102%, compared to the previous quarter of 23%, is expected to exceed the fourth quarter revenue 40 million U.S. dollars.