Before Larry Page came to Li Mu, he had planned to invite Li Mu to invest in Google. Whether it was Li Mu's personal investment or Muye Technology's investment, it was a great thing that was popular for Google's core management and the capital behind it.

Cooperation that is superficial comes and goes quickly, just as in the history of the East and the West, both like to use marriage to enhance political stability. Cooperation between enterprises requires a strong bond to be connected. This bond is not reliable enough based on business and human relationships. Business will change, and human relationships will change. The only thing that will not change is capital.

Google had also had close cooperation with Yahoo before, and the two sides benefited each other, which was a model of good partners. If Yahoo had not used traffic to mad Google in the early stage, Google would not have achieved such a rapid development speed. Last year, Yahoo wanted to acquire Google, but Google was not restless, increasing its price to $6 billion. In the end, Yahoo gave up this once-in-a-lifetime good opportunity.

Now, Yahoo has set its target on search engines. Although Yahoo has not announced it to the public, according to Google's understanding, Yahoo has now begun to develop search engines. Once it feels ready, it will inevitably part ways with Google.

For Larry Page, even if Li Mu promised to provide Google with search traffic today, this kind of cooperation is rootless and cannot bring Google a real sense of security. The best solution is to let Li Mu invest in the shares and then sign a cooperation agreement.

Li Mu also saw Larry Page's urgent need for traffic. Yahoo is about to break up and wants to go public next year. If you can get stable search traffic from yourself at this time, it will be of great help to Google's capital operation. It is very likely that with its own traffic guarantee, Google will directly raise hundreds of millions of IPo next year, and even increase its stock price by a few percentage points.

So, when Li Mu mentioned that he was a shareholder of Baidu, he was thinking about Larry Page. If you want traffic, you can let me invest in Google first.

Larry Page did the trick and even took the initiative to ask Li Mu to invest.

So Li Mu asked Larry Page, saying, "Larry, do Google's board of directors have any preliminary intentions? If I come here with traffic, how much share will Google be willing to dilute to me?"

Li Mu will definitely look down on it if he points or two points. Even if Google's market value is hundreds of billions of dollars in the future, Li Mu will look down on it. If he wants to come, it will start from at least 5 to 10 points.

Larry Page is not vague. Whether it is him or the Google board of directors, what he wants is to go public quickly and no one dares to expect that he can expand to a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars in the future. So now in order to hold Li Mu's thigh, they also understand that they are reluctant to let their children go to trap the wolf.

Immediately, Larry Page said to Li Mu seriously: "Mr. Li, if you can promise to open a search portal for Google on yy and yy.com and keep it unchanged for five years, we are willing to dilute five points. We will give you these five points at a valuation of $6 billion."

After saying that, Larry Page added: "Google's current valuation is around $10 billion."

Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Larry, open a search portal for Google and keep it unchanged for five years. If it were you, would you agree?"

Larry Page looked at Li Mu with a little dodging, and after a moment he pretended to be very confident, "I will agree, because this is an additional benefit for me."

Li Mu shook his head, stared at Larry Page's eyes for a moment, and said very seriously: "Larry, if you open a search portal for Google in my most important product and keep it for five years, then what you get from me is not only five years of traffic guarantee, but also five years of security guarantee! If I promise you, Muye Technology will not be able to get involved in search engines in the next five years. After all, your entrance is on my most important product. If I do searching at this time, wouldn't I destroy my own job?"

Larry Page didn't know how to answer for a moment. Li Mu was right. If he agreed to this condition, the most valuable thing was not that he provided traffic to Google for five consecutive years, but that he was unable to engage in search engines for five years. If it was placed in wartime, it would be equivalent to a five-year non-invasion treaty, and its value was immeasurable.

After thinking for a while, Larry Page said seriously: "Mr. Li, if you have any objections to this time, then we can discuss it again. It is not impossible to shorten it appropriately. If four and a half years, you..."

Before he could finish his words, Li Mu reached out to interrupt him and said very seriously: "Larry, my objection is not a matter of the length of time, but a question of how much you are willing to pay for this time window. Let me make it clearer. In my understanding, you must pay protection fees to me!"

Although it seems very street culture as a protection fee, it is very appropriate. Google naturally knows that it is impossible for Li Mu to sign a competition agreement, which clearly states that Muye Technology does not make a search engine, so they want to use this kind of constraints, which makes Li Mu unable to do it, or it is difficult to start. However, Li Mu is not a vegetarian. Google sells shares at a low price, which is not very attractive to Li Mu. This is not that the richer he is, the greater his appetite, but that he doesn't like it at all.

Larry Page hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Li, if this is the case, we can appropriately lower the valuation as compensation. What do you think?"

Li Mu shook his head slightly and said, "Larry, Muye Technology is currently the largest traffic among the world's Internet companies, and no one is as active as our users, nor is it as loyal as our users. Theoretically, it is much easier for Muye Technology to make any Internet products and models than other companies. So you see, the two simple games we make can bring huge profits beyond all online games on the world. We make online music and defeated Apple itunes in a few days."

Li Mu said this and deliberately paused and said to Larry Page: "If one day Makino Technology decides to be a search engine, how long do you think we will need to surpass Google? Just like we did in the music field," he said.

Larry Page felt that Li Mu's problem made him a little embarrassed, but he still said with a tough point: "Mr. Li, search engines are actually a product model with very strong technical requirements. Not only must they have a strong technical foundation, but they also need to have multiple sets of very accurate logical algorithms, and then based on the algorithm to cater to users and advertisers. This set of things can almost be regarded as the highest technical threshold in the current Internet industry."

Li Mu asked him with a smile: "Do you think we don't have the technical strength to be a search engine?"

Larry Page hurriedly explained: "I just think that if Makino Technology invests a lot of technical costs on search engines, it will have a great impact on its own business development. In an old Chinese saying, it is to pick up sesame seeds and lose watermelons, which is unpaid."

Li Mu said: "You are wrong. If I do a search engine, I don't need to invest a lot of technical costs to redevelop. I just need to take the Baidu technology. Although I am not a major shareholder of Baidu, I can tell you that if I want the complete set of Baidu's technology, I will definitely be able to get it, and I can get it in minutes."

Larry Page looked surprised, but he felt ten thousand disbelief in his heart.

Baidu is also a technology company. For technology companies, technology is the most important asset and reliance, and it is absolutely impossible to authorize it to others. What Li Mu said is simply a fantasy. Unless he acquires Baidu in full, such a thing will not happen.

Li Mu saw that Larry Page didn't believe him. He smiled playfully, looked at Larry Page and said, "Larry, believe it or not, what I want to tell you is that as long as I promise Robin now that he will open up the full set of technologies to me, I promise that Makino Technology will not touch the Chinese search engine market and continue to divert traffic for him in China. Robin will book the earliest air tickets from the United States to fly over to sign with me. Do you believe it?"

wtf...

Larry Page looked horrified.

And he had already completely believed what Li Mu said. If Li Mu really reached such a division agreement with Baidu, then Baidu would definitely agree, because for Baidu, they would not have the ability to invest in overseas markets at all.

At this time, Li Mu sighed: "Robin has a very big advantage, that he can see the reality clearly. He knows that Baidu has no ability to explore foreign markets now, and will not be able to compete with Google in overseas markets in the future. Not only that, even in the domestic market, Baidu will have to worry about Google's invasion, and even worry that giants like Muye Technology will one day grab his job. If I promise not to compete with him in the Chinese market, he will definitely strive to develop the domestic market with satisfaction, and will never covet overseas markets. In that case, I can cooperate closely with him. He uses Baidu's technology to build the Chinese market. I use Baidu's technology to build the market outside of China. Everyone does not interfere with each other, does not conflict with each other, and can even improve each other and progress each other."

Speaking of this, Li Mu's expression suddenly became abusive. Looking at Larry Page, he was about to give him a high-level intimidation, and then said with a smile: "Larry, you may think that Baidu's search engine technology is still a bit worse than Google, but you also need to know that for most users, the product with the highest comprehensive score of convenience and practicality is the most popular."

"Don't think that McDonald's doesn't sell pizza because it can't make good pizza, and don't think that even if McDonald's sells pizza, it can't sell the best pizza store. In fact, the real situation is that as long as McDonald's pizza is not bad, he will soon be able to steal a large market from the pizza store."

"If he happens to learn the full set of techniques for making delicious pizza from another professional pizza restaurant, then the market space he can occupy will be even greater!"
Chapter completed!