Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 635: Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Just Do It!

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Chen Mo stared at the screen. The core of the gambler lineup was stuck and couldn't reach level 3. In the last wave of all-in, the gold coins were all gone, and there was still one coin short. He clicked surrender and cursed: "Damn it, compared with the online public opinion war, this crappy game is more annoying to me."

He raised his head and glanced at Chen Tong who was standing beside him, smiling: "What, you can't sit still?"

"That's not the case." Chen Tong shrugged. "I wanted to comfort you, but it seems I was worrying too much."

He paused, frowning slightly: “However, the method used by our competitors this time is a bit strange.

First, you take your words out of context, change the concepts, and fabricate fake news to ignite public opinion. When the heat is on, you quickly delete the post to eliminate all evidence. Then, you force the technical controversy into a moral issue, letting the public focus on your personal image and criticize you, while no one cares about the product itself..."

"This move of diverting trouble to someone else is not an old Baidu PR trick. I'm afraid there is someone behind this who is giving instructions."

At this point, Chen Tong asked tentatively: "Do you want to... control public opinion?"

This is the real reason why he came here.

The so-called "control" is naturally not an ordinary public relations response, but directly mobilizing the media resources on the other side to completely suppress the negative voices and make those noisy netizens shut up instantly.

However, Chen Mo, who was at the center of the public opinion storm, only casually glanced at the unbearable verbal battle on the screen and said lightly: "What the netizens said is not wrong. Why should we control it?"

"But if these people continue to talk nonsense, I'm afraid..."

"Change your thinking." Chen Mo threw his phone aside, a sly look in his eyes. "Since the other party is throwing dirty water, it would seem petty for us to block it. They have much more dirty water than us - why not throw it at each other and see who can't stand it first."

"Okay, that's what I've been waiting for."

"As for the main focus..." Chen Mo tapped the table with his fingertips, "Continue to dig deeper into Baidu's dark history of medical advertisements. You can do whatever you want with the rest. After all -" He smiled, "You are the professionals."

Chen Tong made an OK gesture, turned around and strode away. His back revealed a ruthless look, as if he couldn't wait to start a bloody storm.

Chen Mo shook his head and continued to browse the comments online - fans turned to haters, fans turned to haters, and there were all kinds of people. It was a carnival of public opinion.

If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Since you have enjoyed the dividends brought by traffic and saved a lot of marketing costs, it is only natural that you now have to bear the backlash of traffic.

fair enough.

He even thought it was a good thing.

However, he did not think that the other party's methods would stop there.

He was waiting - waiting for the other party to show his real killer move, and also waiting for the "detonator" that would appear at an unknown time and be enough to turn the situation around.

And the bait is the public opinion that Chen Tong just threw out.

Facts have proved that Chen Mo's judgment was correct.

A few days later, Baidu took action.

April 4, Guyu.

The rain nourishes everything and makes everything grow. This is the time when spring is at its most spirited.

But this last solar term of spring also coincides with the cruel law of the alternation of the old and the new and intensified competition.

Following the Spring Festival Gala red envelopes, Baidu once again spent 10 billion in cash subsidies, and this time, they learned their lesson - users can withdraw cash directly to Alipay or Du Xiaoman.

The simple and crude money-spending strategy completely ignited the market:
"First Search of the Day" - Every user who searches on the first day will receive a 1 yuan cash bonus, with a total amount of 5 million yuan, on a first-come, first-served basis.

"Just search on Baidu and you'll make money" - the first three searches every day will give you a chance to win cash red packets, with a total amount of 3 million, until all are drawn.

"Rewards for reporting" - If users find errors in Bi'an Search, they will be rewarded 10 yuan for each report, with no upper limit.

What’s even more ruthless is that Baidu directly raised the banner of “Search Alliance”—

In order to provide users with better services and content, Baidu has reached a strategic partnership with 360 and Sogou. The three parties will share content resources and establish a "Search Ecological Alliance."

At the same time, Baidu has finalized cooperation with the three major operators:

In the future, some data packages will be marked with "free data search" (only for Baidu/360/Sogou).

When Chen Mo saw the other party's series of actions in this announcement, he couldn't help but be shocked.

Previous information shows that the other party is not just Baidu, but just those people who confronted each other in Wuzhen.

He could have imagined that the other party would fight back, but he didn't expect them to play it so big this time.

Until he noticed one of the details, he suddenly smiled, turned around and whispered a few words to Dai Wenyuan.

In the early morning of that day, a large number of typos suddenly appeared on the Bi'an search page, which lasted for nearly ten minutes before returning to normal.

The official account immediately released an announcement, saying that it was a "temporary bug caused by a system update, which has been urgently fixed." This move seemed harmless, but it caused Baidu to suffer directly - the next day, Baidu's "report reward" channel was overwhelmed by a large number of erroneous reports, and users all brought screenshots and demanded to redeem the 10 yuan reward.

In just one day, Baidu was defrauded of nearly 2 million yuan.

As a result, it was forced to urgently modify the rules and add a supplementary statement: "Bug-type errors are not included in the reward range."

This addition is not a big deal, it directly ignited users' anger - after all, what is worrying is not the lack of supply but the inequality of supply.

"We agreed to reward people for reporting, but such a big platform is cheating. If you can't afford it, don't do it!"

"Can we still have fun together?"

"Who has no money and is free to play in the middle of the night and find fault with everyone?"

Faced with a flood of protests, the official Weibo account subsequently responded in agreement, implicitly implying that the final right of interpretation lies with me.

On April 4, the counterattack from the other side came late but arrived.

The "navy" that is already good at propaganda warfare has been ready to move, and this time the entire army is attacking -

"Look at the salary packages offered by Bi'an to its employees. How many bosses can freely share the money in their pockets with their employees?"

"How many migrant workers have you helped? Why are some people pretending to have lost their memory now?"

"The other side makes hundreds of billions every year. According to previous reports, Chen Mo's earnings add up to 10 billion. A business owner only takes 1% of the total revenue. I think it's right to let Chen Mo make the money!"

"You can tell us by the deeds and not the heart, understand? Xiao Mo gave out red envelopes to everyone, and his software was free whenever possible, and even if it was charged, it was more conscientious than other software that charged more. He kept calling me 'husband', so why didn't anyone say he was a white lotus?"

"It's so funny, do you really think netizens have no memory? Ele.me provides five social insurances and one housing fund for delivery boys to avoid being exploited, reduces merchant commissions to avoid cutting corners, subsidizes users to treat customers to free meals, and drives a certain garbage group out of the market. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Don't lose your conscience?"

"The man is unmarried and the woman is unmarried. The woman has not reported him for rape. Many people on the Internet have become online judges. To be honest, if I had Chen Mo's wealth, I would spend more money than him."

Public opinion needs to be guided, and when another voice emerges, many supporting voices will appear.

Many ordinary workers who had benefited from Yuandian began to speak out under their real names: "At that time, my former company maliciously owed me wages, and it was Yuandian's legal team that helped us win the lawsuit."

What is even more intriguing is that a certain public account suddenly released an in-depth report, ".Comparison shows that among the major Internet companies in the same period, Bi'an's labor arbitration rate is zero, and the annual employee turnover rate is only less than 20%, compared with more than 2% of competitors. These two data are enough to illustrate the problem.

If this is considered hypocrisy, then won't the real villains wake up laughing?"

A hot comment with over 10,000 reposts said something extremely sharp: "To all those who criticize Chen Mo as a capitalist, do you dare to put up the Labor Law in your company?"

In the photo, the red-covered legal book is shining like a treasure of the company in the glass display case at the front desk of the Other Shore Hall.

When the war of public opinion entered a white-hot stage, the counterattack from the other side really showed its edge.
"Haha, some people enjoy cursing the other side, but why don't they dare to mention how many patients a certain side has sent to the morgue?"

"It's so funny. At least the other side doesn't make shady money. A search for "cold" can even recommend a cancer hospital. They are really good at diverting attention."

"Some platforms make tens of billions of dollars a year from medical ads, and now their troll army jumps out to pretend to be messengers of justice? Can they cover up their dirty shells by making a clean version? What about the users who were deceived? Should they die?"

“I suggest Baidu change its name to ‘Baidu’. After all, search = chronic poisoning. I’m lucky I didn’t die suddenly after using it for so many years [smile]”

Ironically, these comments only exist on other shore platforms such as Zhihu and Bilibili. Once they "cross the line", they will disappear without a trace in an instant. The only exception is Tencent News, where related discussions can survive for two or three hours - this subtle difference in duration exposes the struggle between various forces.

The Internet has been split into two parallel worlds:
The comments insulting the other side can be seen all over the Internet;

The voice criticizing a certain company survives on half of the Internet!
So much so that there is a question on Zhihu: "What are they afraid of?" The criticism is directed at the major platforms and portals of the Feibi'an system and the forces behind them.

However, one article escaped the disaster, and its title is very intriguing: "An Open Letter Regarding Applying for the Legal Removal of Chen Mo from His Official Position."

The article enumerates the "seven sins" committed by Chen Mo and the Bi'an Group he represents over the past few years, including but not limited to guiding incorrect values, suspected monopoly and malicious disruption of the market, deliberately guiding public opinion through information, etc. Every word is heartbreaking.

The appeal at the end of the article is even more revealing: "As a public figure, Chen Mo, chairman of the Bi'an Group, has caused irreparable adverse effects on the entire society through his personal illegal behavior and lack of corporate responsibility.

The official title should not become a talisman or shield for evil people. I call on the relevant departments to adopt a "zero tolerance" attitude to deal with this matter.

This is not only a responsibility to the public, but also a defense of the system. Only by letting those who violate the law and disqualify themselves from the team can we restore the Internet to a clear and bright world. - Sincerely, salute! "

However, the comments section below the article was originally intended to criticize the other side, but after a long argument among several netizens, the tone gradually went off track.

"Doesn't a certain family fit these charges better?"

“When it comes to monopoly, who can be better than a certain medical bidding that cannot even be mentioned?”

"Guiding public opinion? Who is guiding it now?"

People found that among the points criticizing Chen Mo and Bian'an, the other one seemed to be more serious.

It was not until 10 hours later that the other party realized that this was a carefully designed "phishing post".

The article was urgently removed from the shelves, but it has become a laughing stock on the Internet
(End of this chapter)