After rebirth, I became a great master

Chapter 299 A Successful Return Home
Google Search is currently in the internal development stage.

It is immature in many aspects.

The theory, technology, and application plan are not yet clear enough. Even Larry Page and Sergey Brin lack a clear guiding principle and have insufficient confidence in the "BackRub" project.

In fact, the reason these two were able to resolutely drop out of Stanford in their previous lives, commercialize the "BackRub" project, and found Google was due to a clash of ideas at an academic forum.

At the time, Infoseek featured a presentation by technology engineer Robin Lee.

It's about his search technology—hyperlink analysis!
Hyperlink analysis, also known as link analysis, uses the hyperlinks linked to a webpage to determine its ranking in search results. However, hyperlink analysis emphasizes the authority of the link source, assigning higher weight to links from high-quality pages.

This approach is very similar to the "BackRub" project.

This project uses a voting system, where there is no distinction between high and low voting weights. It is based on a democratic voting model, where each person has one vote with equal weight!
Later, the "BackRub" project was transferred to Google.

Robin Lee returned to the United States and founded Baidu.

Therefore, Baidu and Google's search theories are highly similar.

They all revolve around reverse hyperlinks.

Baidu ranks links based on their authority, while Google ranks them based on the number of links.

They look the same.

In reality, they were going in the opposite direction.

The former emphasizes authority; one authoritative link can be worth thousands of ordinary links. The latter emphasizes democracy; all links have the same weight, and super-large websites and small personal websites have the same voting power.

Science was born from philosophy.

When technology reaches its peak, it will inevitably reach the level of philosophy.

Baidu and Google undoubtedly represent the pinnacle of global search technology in the early days of the internet. The differences in their technological philosophies inevitably extend to their corporate spirit and operational strategies.

Baidu is Robin Lee's company, which wields supreme authority and operates on an authoritarian model; Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, but Google has never been their company.

This led to the two companies having similar strengths in the early stages, but later taking completely opposite development paths.

At this time, Zhou Haoran was in a laboratory at Stanford University. He saw Google's original project and met Google's two founders. Naturally, he spoke to them in a way that suited them, trying to explain his search philosophy around the core thinking of Google's future.

It was a perfect match!
Every word they said resonated with them and opened up new possibilities for them in many subtle ways.

After speaking for 20 minutes, Zhou Haoran had already become the spiritual mentor of the two people.

Larry Page immediately suggested that the two schools could collaborate and invite Zhou Haoran to join the project team to build a dream search engine together!

Zhou Haoran naturally wouldn't agree.

I just told them they could keep in touch if needed, and that he was very interested in the "BackRub" project.

However, he is not a student at Stanford University.

It's not convenient for me to get involved too much.

If any difficulties are encountered, or if the project becomes commercialized outside of Stanford in the future, he is willing to provide some assistance, offering theoretical, technical, and resource support to this small project.

That establishes the relationship.

"Hey sir, are you going to publish your paper?"

Larry Page is the lead architect of the "BackRub" project.

Zhou Haoran smiled and said, "It will be published within a few months."

Larry Page said with difficulty, "But many of the concepts and theories in your paper are very similar to our project... Of course, your theory is more comprehensive and has more layers. If other teams read your paper, they may become our competitors."

Zhou Haoran frowned. "The spirit of the internet is openness, and knowledge sharing is beneficial to the progress of the industry."

Sergei Brin added from the side, "Only when you have money can you help the poor. Otherwise, if you are poor yourself, you can only wait to be helped. First, improve yourself, and then you can help more people."

"That's true."

Zhou Haoran chuckled inwardly; what a convenient excuse for selfishness.

Sergey Brin said in a deep voice, "Good man, I think we can cooperate and apply for a patent related to search technology, based on your idea and our existing project technology. Once we have the patent, you can publish the paper."

"can."

Zhou Haoran readily accepted good advice.

I thought to myself that these two people are quite selfish, completely unlike the grand vision that led the open-source wave in the internet industry twenty or thirty years later.

They also relied on traditional patent protection to stand out from the search competition.

After winning.

We no longer want patent barriers in internet technology.

Zhou Haoran boarded a flight back to China.

This trip to the United States was very successful for him.

On an academic level, he met many prominent figures, made connections with editors-in-chief of top journals, and signed numerous contracts. This will likely lead to his papers being approved for publication more quickly in the future.

On the business front...

That's even more remarkable.

I used leverage to buy Yahoo stock.

He even joined Google's original project as a "partner," and recruited Larry Page and Sergey Brin as his fans.

"Haoran, this academic exchange was a great success. When you get back, write a report for the university, explaining the exchange and trying to promote opportunities for cooperation between Fudan and Stanford."

The vice principal leading the team spoke with an air of authority on the plane.

Zhou Haoran smiled and agreed.

I really don't know what this exchange group has accomplished in the past week. I heard they even went to Las Vegas for research for two days.

Tan Mingliang looked down on this school leader and said in a low voice, "Stanford values ​​you, not our school. I was able to come here because of you."

Zhou Haoran nodded. "I know."

"I'll say it again: academic exchange is academic transaction." Tan Mingliang had seen through all of this long ago. "Fudan University is not qualified to do academic transactions with Stanford, but you are."

Zhou Haoran said calmly, "I don't need to exchange any personal benefits. If I can secure a long-term cooperation opportunity with Stanford University for the school, that would be great."

Tan Mingliang sighed helplessly, "You're quite carefree!"

Zhou Haoran smiled and said, "The school gave me this opportunity."

Tan Mingliang hummed in agreement and remarked, "You have good character; I can tell."

"It should."

Zhou Haoran felt a little guilty after hearing what he said.

However, his apprentices have been saying that he has "good character" all this time. This is because Zhou Haoran has been sharing a bedroom with his eldest apprentice, Hu Xiaochen, during his time in the United States.

Ji Yingyang also made a bet with Qiao Nuo.

Yangyang said he definitely couldn't resist! He would definitely make a move on Xiaochen and ruin her body!
Nono believed in her master's character, thinking he was a gentleman and would respect her senior sister.

As it turns out, Nono won.

Although Hu Xiaochen slept in the same bedroom as Zhou Haoran for several days, she remained a virgin and received full respect.

This made Qiao Nuo feel at ease and excited, and she thought her master was really good.

Only Hu Xiaochen himself understands.

Except for the final level, he took all the advantages.

She wasn't exactly adamant about opposing the final step.

There were many moments when she had the thought of allowing her master to pass the level in one go.

It just felt too rushed.

Now that her master is so respectful, allowing her to preserve her chastity, she feels regret but also genuinely praises her master's good character.

"Dean Cheng told me you wanted to create a campus card system?"

Tan Mingliang and Zhou Haoran were both in economy class.

"Okay, I'll apply for funding when I get back and get this done!" Zhou Haoran had a plan. "I'll try to get it implemented within six months, and by the start of the new semester in September, the campus card system will be fully operational!"

Tan Mingliang frowned slightly, "This is a bit rushed!"

Zhou Haoran was very confident: "Let's make a basic version first, and then we can upgrade it gradually later."

"Then you'd better not delay the writing of the textbook." Tan Mingliang turned his head, gave him a deep look, and said with a strange expression, "You're the author of two university textbooks!"

Zhou Haoran said casually, "I know, I can manage. As for writing textbooks, there are graduate students involved, and I don't need to write them word by word."

"Sigh!" Tan Mingliang sighed, "You're really something!"

(End of this chapter)