Chapter 1043 (1/2)
Larry Page's greatest pursuit in his life is to make every effort to digitize everything in the real society.
Inspired by the library model, he founded search engine and Google in University. After the founding of Google, he invested more than 400 million dollars to digitize more than 20 million kinds of physical books in the world in ten years, which gave birth to Google Books;
in addition, he tried to use a camcorder to drive along the road in the last century Tu took photos. According to his way at that time, he stopped every 100 meters to take a few photos, and then transmitted them to the computer. As a result, he initiated the idea of digitizing street views all over the world and making them available for users to browse on the Internet. Then, several years later, Google Street View released that through countless Google Street View cars, people can stay indoors and online Enjoy the scenery of dozens of countries, thousands of cities and millions of streets.
Then, he used more advanced satellite and aerial photography technology to take a 360 degree ”picture” of the earth, and then Google Earth was born.
Right now, Larry Page is making his first big digital experiment - Google Books.
Larry Page doesn't think there will be a second person in the world who has the same crazy idea of digitizing books around the world and then putting them on the Internet.
However, what he didn't expect was that Li Mu, just through a few metaphors of his own, said this model as a suggestion for himself.
It made Larry Page nervous and embarrassed.
The tension is that he worries that Li Mu will also be interested in such a model. Google is now doing such a thing, which is not superior to Muye technology, and it is just starting now. If Muye technology is also doing it, it is easy to catch up with it;
embarrassment is because he does not know how to answer Li Mu at once. First, he does not want to tell Li Mu that Google is actually doing this One thing, but if you don't tell Li Mu, when he launches Google Books in the future, Li Mu will feel that he is inspired by him, which is too embarrassing.
Real people like Larry Page care about the source of ideas. He doesn't want his own Google Book plan to be misinterpreted as plagiarizing others' ideas one day.
After thinking about it for a while, Larry Page made up his mind and said to Li Mu, ”Mr. Li, I have a secret message for you. The project of Google Books is already in operation. The purpose is to move the whole real world books to the Internet, as you just said.”
Li Mu pretended to be surprised and said, ”that's a huge workload!”
Larry Page nodded and said with a smile, ”it doesn't matter how big it is. It's one of the few dreams in my life. Even if I do my best, I will finish it.”
Larry Page purposely insisted that Li Mu should not be interested in the project. If he is really interested, he should also withdraw when he knows that he is doing his best for the project.
Li Mu smiled quietly and said to Larry Page, ”this is a great dream. I think you can achieve it.”
Larry Page said with a sigh of relief and a smile: ”Muye technology is also great. I think YY has the opportunity to become the core product of human communication in the future Internet world. This kind of bearing can do without borders. If YY goes smoothly, it can even carry the online communication of the whole mankind.”