Reborn on the Internet: Starting with Games

Chapter 244 Three Assignments
In the field of instant messaging, QQ currently occupies two-thirds of the market share, followed by MSN.

In the search field, Baidu occupies half of the country, followed by Google and Yahoo.

In e-commerce, eBay still occupies the top spot, but Taobao is catching up from behind. Its market share has increased from 9% at the beginning of the year to 24% now. The two are at loggerheads.

In terms of portal websites, there are still the traditional three major ones and two small ones. NetEase, Sohu, and Sina are still strong. Tencent and Century.com have just been established and their foundations have been initially laid.

In the online game market, I am the only one, followed by NetEase and Shanda.

Therefore, who can become a giant company in the future depends on who occupies more traffic entrances.

First look at what you want, and then look at what is available. Chen Hao thought for a long time, and he had firmly controlled the entrance to online games.

The current plan is to attract traffic to YY through social networking and compete with QQ.

Search and e-commerce have no time to take into account for the time being, and portals can only proceed step by step.

What else?

What do users need to do when they turn on their computers and want to obtain information from the Internet?

Suddenly Chen Hao's eyes lit up and he patted his thigh, yes, a browser!

At this time, more than 90% of the browsers on computers are Microsoft's IE browser, which has basically no security at all and is difficult to use.

The Firefox browser was just introduced to China at the beginning of the year and is currently used by only some technical personnel.

If I build a secure browser, wouldn't it be able to occupy the entrance terminal and form a geographical advantage?
Do it when you think of it, but not before.

He first called Zhang Xiaolong to arrange YY-related work tasks first. The communication lasted more than 2 hours.

Because YY itself integrates various basic functions of instant chat, it is even more powerful than QQ at the voice level.

However, the overall page is still too game-oriented, so now 99% of the users on YY are online game players.

Therefore, Chen Hao ordered Zhang Xiaolong to differentiate in terms of functions and UI, allowing users to make independent choices and seamlessly switch between game mode and chat mode.

The game mode maintains various in-game chat rooms and in-game social relationships.

The chat mode is similar to QQ, and belongs to the concept of real and online friends.

And to optimize the user experience, Chen Hao put forward principled requirements, and the interface is simple and easy to operate.

Make preparations in advance. When Century Youyuan.com is launched next month, some activities will be linked with YY to attract traffic to YY.

Start with games and social networking sites (SNS) to grow YY and seize the social portal.

Chen Hao is fully confident that Century Farm will bring a huge number of users to YY.

Finally, he asked Zhang Xiaolong what his college classmate named Zhou was doing now.Can you dig it out?

Zhang Xiaolong was a little confused about the situation and didn't know why he was mentioned, "Zhou Hongyi? Impossible! He just became the president of Yahoo China two months ago, and he is very high-spirited."

Oh, that's it, then Lao Zhou, I won't apologize to you in advance.

Chen Hao came to Century Network Shield for inspection, mainly to check and accept the final status of Century Security Guard.

When we arrived at the conference room, Wu Hanqing gave a brief demonstration.

Chen Hao started to try it out. He found that in addition to the most basic computer physical examination, virus scanning, and system repair, Century Security Guard also had garbage cleaning, optimization and acceleration functions that computer novices liked.

After all, there are many people playing computer games nowadays, but only a few people know how to install the system, let alone those who know some basic computer security knowledge.

There were dozens of viruses in my computer, and it seemed like nothing was wrong. But one day, on a whim, I paid to install Kaspersky to give my computer a physical check. As soon as it was checked and eliminated, the computer really froze and crashed.

Just like a patient with a terminal illness, if he didn't know it, he could still live well. As a result, he went to the hospital for examination and received all kinds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, so he could go away quickly.

A truth.When Chen Hao raised this concern, Wu Hanqing said that they had discovered and considered this situation in advance, and would prompt users that forced deletion would cause the system to crash, and also provided solutions for virus file isolation and system backup.

After Chen Hao used it once, he made three suggestions.

1. Make a floating ball on the system desktop, which provides the most basic CPU and memory usage, and can be cleaned with one click, which is convenient and fast.

2. Add a software manager at the end of the page and put all the commonly used software in the market. Shiyou Platform and YY should be placed in the top two. After all, you still need to have this privilege for your own products.

3. You can add a self-starting interception at startup. For example, some rogue software will automatically start at startup by default. You can check it in the one-click acceleration, allowing users to choose those that can automatically start at startup.

Wu Hanqing thought for a moment and found that these functions were not complicated. He gave a time plan on the spot and expected to go online in mid-May.

Chen Hao saw that it was early May, nodded and agreed to this time.

Wu Hanqing saw that the boss did not ask about the price, which was related to the overall performance of their company, so he hurriedly asked, "Hey, boss, security guard, don't you make a decision on the price? I see that Jiang Min has launched a 2004 reset version on the market, 100 30 yuan per day, and Kaspersky’s overseas products are more, ranging from 30 to 50 US dollars.”

"What is the fee? When did I say that security guards would charge?"

"Free to use?" Wu Hanqing said in surprise.

"Otherwise, these anti-virus manufacturers now, including Ruixing, Jiangmin, and Kaspersky, are all relatively mature. If you want to seize the market, the only way to go is free."

Well, he doesn't understand things in the market. After all, once something is made, it will be whatever the boss says.

"Can the subsequent OKR settings be set based on the installed capacity?"

"can!"

Seeing the boss nodding, Wu Hanqing breathed a sigh of relief, at least he still had a goal.

Then he heard his boss say, "By the way, I have three assignments for you. The first assignment is to develop an online game accelerator."

"Accelerator? What the hell?"

"Do you play online games?"

"If you have nothing to do, play Three Kingdoms Kill."

"which region?"

"Netcom One"

"Then if you have a college classmate in the telecommunications area, how do you play with him?"

"The delay will be huge when crossing regions, unless he comes to China Netcom or I go to China Telecom." After saying this, Wu Hanqing realized the intention of the boss's question.

"Well, that's what accelerators do, to break the limitations of the original network!"

Although the Ministry of Information Industry is already making plans to implement interconnection, the progress is slow and we don’t know when it will take. So instead of waiting passively, it is better to take the initiative to break the situation.

In fact, the principle of online game accelerator is relatively simple. The core of game accelerator is the node server. Generally, most of the servers of online games are set up on telecommunications, China Netcom and education networks.

So when players use the telecommunications network, accessing telecommunications servers is the fastest, while accessing other servers has a relatively high delay. The online game accelerator is to set up a node server between the player's computer and the game server.

During the access, the game server accessed by the local machine is judged by the node server. If Netcom accesses Telecom, the user's Netcom network is converted into a telecommunications line through the node server for forwarding, thereby achieving an acceleration effect.

This can not only solve the problem of cross-region online games, but also solve the problem of lagging and delay because the performance of the node server is definitely better than that of the local server.

Of course, Wu Hanqing can only be responsible for the development of the software. The establishment of the node server and network also need support from Century Juhard, so the two companies can jointly develop it.

Chen Hao called Lin Lang on the spot to arrange the matter, and then asked Wu Hanqing to communicate directly with Lin Lang.

(End of this chapter)