Eric looked at the daughter in his arms and stared at the Jiugong grid in Steve Mitnick's hand for about half a minute, thinking that this question was a bit difficult, and was about to remind the little guy that the sum of three connected numbers should be 15, The Hawaiian little hand pointed at the center of the Jiugong grid: "The middle is 5."
Steve Mitnick, Ian Grenier and Tina Brown, who were far away in Boston, all showed even more surprised eyes. This problem is much more difficult than the simple sum of numbers just now.
Steve Mitnick reached out and filled in the number 5 in the center of the nine-square grid. Afterwards, Hawaii quickly filled the nine-square grid. The sum of any three straight-line connected numbers in the nine-square grid is exactly 15.
After repeatedly looking at the Jiugongge in his hand and the little one on the opposite side for a while, Steve Mitnick recovered from his surprise and said with a smile: "Eric, do you still remember "Men in Black", although I never thought you were a Pandora star, but your daughter might really be."
There is no father who is not happy for his child's intelligence. Eric said proudly: "Even if it is a Pandora star, she is also my daughter. This is definitely not wrong."
The two were joking, but Hawaii retorted solemnly: "I'm not from Pandora, and my mother said that was just a joke in the movie. You should tell me how Yahoo search works."
"Of course," Steve Mitnick nodded. Seeing that Eric had no objection, he began to briefly explain the principles of search engine algorithms to the little guy. Ian Grenier and Tina Brown were also interested Interject a few words vigorously from time to time.
After the two questions just now, Steve Mitnick no longer treats the little guy in front of him as a child who is not yet five years old, and explained in detail the composition of information capture, data processing and user retrieval functions required by search engines , Under his persuasive guidance, Hawaii's thoughts were even drawn into the field of artificial intelligence without knowing it.
After chatting like this for half an hour, Steve Mitnick concluded: "So, Xia Xia, if you can create an intelligent algorithm that imitates human thinking ability in the future, then a machine with such an algorithm can Like human beings, even, they will be better than human beings."
Since his daughter did it with his back turned to him, Eric didn't notice the brighter eyes of the little girl, so he had no way of knowing what kind of door Steve Mitnick's words opened in his daughter's heart.
After Steve Mitnick finished speaking, Eric smiled and said, "Steve, aren't you afraid that my daughter will create Skynet and destroy the world?"
Steve Mitnick nodded expectantly, with a hint of madness in his eyes: "If Xia Xia can really do it in the future, I would be willing to be killed by T-800."
"Would you like me or not? I don't want my daughter to have these messy pursuits. She just needs to be her own daughter with peace of mind. Other daughters buy one Hermes at a time, and my Xia Xia buys one at a time." car."
Steve Mitnick rolled his eyes, looked at Hawaii and said, "Hey, Xia Xia, do you feel that your father is very vulgar?"
"Well," the little girl nodded earnestly. In a blink of an eye, she forgot that she despised her father just now, and turned her head and said, "Dad, can I use a computer in the future?"
Eric said: "Honey, we have agreed, you have to wait until you are at least six years old."
Steve Mitnick heard the conversation between the father and daughter, and said dissatisfiedly: "Eric, with Xia Xia's current IQ, let alone six years old, she is smarter than sixteen-year-old children, you are just doing this Bind her."
Eric looked at the camera and said, "I don't want Xia Xia to complain that I didn't give her a childhood when she grows up."
"How do you know that the childhood you gave her is what she wants," Steve Mitnick retorted, and then said to Hawaii: "Xia Xia, ignore your father, you can secretly use the computer when he is away oh."
The little man looked very disappointed, but he still shook his head and said, "No, if dad doesn't agree, mom won't agree either. If I use it secretly, mom will be sad. I don't want to make mom sad."
The three big men are fine. When Tina Brown, who has become a mother, heard the little girl's words, her mother's love suddenly overflowed, and her eyes were a little wet. She immediately opened her mouth to attack Eric and said, "Eric, listen Ah, can such sensible words be said by an ordinary four or five-year-old child, I suddenly feel that you are really disgusting."
"Eric, as long as there is restraint, it's okay for children to use the computer," Ian Grenier, who had always spoken less, couldn't help opening his mouth.
Eric was actually quite moved in his heart, and quickly 'surrendered', saying to his daughter: "Okay, but Xia Xia, you must have your mother by your side when using the computer."
Seeing the little girl nodding happily, Steve Mitnick interjected again: "Eric, I think we should hire a math teacher for Xia Xia, just start teaching math in junior high school."
"I think we should talk about business." Eric ignored Steve Mitnick's words, and then said to the daughter in his arms: "Hey, Xia Xia, Dad has promised you, and now you can go out to play. "
"Dad, can I listen here, I will be obedient," the little girl blinked her big eyes.
Eric always felt that his daughter's expression was very similar to Emma's when she acted like a baby, but he didn't think much about it. He only thought that children were probably like this, nodded, but then said softly and softly: "Actually, Xia Xia, you There is no need to know so many things. The knowledge in this world is endless. No matter how smart a person is, it is impossible to obtain one ten-thousandth of all the knowledge in this world. Sometimes, you only need to master the channels to obtain knowledge , and get the information you want when you need it.”
Speaking of this, some thoughts flashed in Eric's mind, he looked up at the camera, and said to the three people on the opposite side: "Ian, Steve, Tina, do you know that 10 to the 100th power, I remember exactly There's this specific word, and I remember someone using it to describe endless data. I've been thinking for a while about spinning off our search engine into a completely separate sub-brand, and I think, our search A search engine should also have the ambition to collect all the data in this world. Then, this search engine should be named after this word. Google, what do you think?"
As Eric said, he casually wrote the word 'Google' in the blank space of a document in front of him, and then showed it to the three people on the opposite side in front of the camera.
Naturally, Tina Brown and Ian Grenier had no objections. Just as they were about to nod, Steve Mitnick said, "Eric, the pronunciation of this word is correct, but you spelled it wrong, 10 out of 100 Second, the professional word should be 'Googol', not 'Google'."
Steve Mitnick also casually wrote down the correct spelling in the notebook just now.
Eric showed no abnormal expression, smiled and showed the word in his hand to Ian Grenier and Tina Brown, and then gestured to the word in Steve Mitnick's hand, saying: "Although Misspelled, but I think this 'Google' in my hand should look better than 'Googol', right?"
Both Tina Brown and Ian Grenier nodded with a chuckle, and Steve Mitnick also compared it, agreeing with Eric's opinion in his heart, but still said: "But it's too imprecise, If anyone in the future finds out that you misspelled the name of our search engine, they will be laughed at."
Eric said disapprovingly: "Only losers will be ridiculed. When our 'Google' becomes the largest search engine in the world, then everyone will only think that my misspelling at this time is a very meaningful thing." And since I can figure out that the correct domain name without 'Googol' has already been registered, you better get someone to get our 'Google' domain name today.
In the next year, I hope you will do your best to build this search engine sub-brand. I said a long time ago that Yahoo in my heart should definitely not be an Internet media company, it should be an Internet technology company. What we want to provide Internet users are tools to browse the Internet world, not content, because no matter what No matter how large the scale of Yahoo is, it is impossible for us to meet the differentiated needs of hundreds of millions of Internet users for content.
Portal websites are destined to be only the product of the initial stage of the Internet. As people's understanding of the Internet deepens, they will gradually want to get rid of the media content we actively provide and actively seek out things they are interested in. Therefore, search engines are is the future of the Internet. "
Both Ian Grenier and Steve Mitnick nodded in agreement, but they couldn't help but look at Tina Brown.
Tina Brown has been in charge of Yahoo's media content department. If Eric intends to weaken the image of Yahoo Internet Media, Tina Brown will definitely be gradually marginalized in the future.
Although she agrees with Eric's point of view in her heart, Tina Brown's expression is inevitably somewhat disappointed.
Eric naturally understood the thoughts of the three people on the opposite side, smiled, and said: "Tina, don't worry, you won't be marginalized, I remember I said before, another business focus of Yahoo, I don't know you Have you forgotten?"
Tina Brown considered for a moment and said, "You mean, social network."
Eric nodded: "Yes, social networking. The reason why I said that no matter how large Yahoo is, it cannot meet the content needs of all Internet users is because our number of employees is limited after all, and we cannot provide all Internet users. Provide what you want. Moreover, with the development of the Internet, other media companies will naturally build their own media content platforms. However, there is a group that can compete with all those who want to develop Internet content platforms in terms of content production. Media companies, this is the huge user base of the Internet.
Like a search engine, we only need to build a perfect social network to win over this huge user base. At that time, in fact, our social network will be the largest media platform in the world.
Therefore, while taking care of the Yahoo Portal content department, I hope you will put more attention on the operation of Yahoo's personal homepage in the future. Although in my mind, this is not the ultimate form of social networking, but managing Yahoo's personal homepage well can also accumulate experience for the continued development of social networking in the future. "
Tina Brown no longer felt the disappointment just now. After hearing what Eric said, she thought for a while and said, "In this case, Eric, why don't we create Yahoo's personal homepage independently like the search engine? What about setting up a dedicated subsidiary?"
"Of course I thought about it, but the timing is still immature," Eric shook his head and said, "The development of the Internet is much faster than I imagined, so now is the best time to increase investment in the search engine business." Good timing, but in order to popularize social networking, I still want to wait until people can access the Internet anytime, anywhere."
Ian Grenier suddenly said: "Eric, this should be the purpose of you asking us to develop the mobile client operating system, and Firefly Electronics' YahooPad project?"
Now that Ian Grenier saw through it, Eric did not hide anything, nodded and said: "Yes, in fact, YahooPad is only the first step. It is still very inconvenient for this machine to log on to the Internet anytime, anywhere. It can only connect to the Internet when it has a WIFI hotspot network. Therefore, if we want to promote this kind of machine in the future, the first thing we need to do is to spread the WIFI hotspot network to the whole country. As for the future, I hope that The mobile phone networks of major telecommunications companies can meet this function of connecting to the Internet at any time. In fact, some of the current telecommunications networks can already realize the function of connecting to the Internet, but the high cost is simply not affordable for ordinary people.”
The relationship between Yahoo and Firefly Electronics is very close. Ian Grenier has also read some WIFI technology information. When he heard that Eric planned to lay a WIFI hotspot network across the country, he couldn't help but said: "Eric, laying out WIFI hotspots across the country. WIFI hotspot network, doing so is almost equivalent to building a brand new telecommunications network. Even the three major telecommunications companies may not do this easily. You must know that even if it is a regional telecommunications network in one city and one place, the construction cost It’s all calculated in billions, not to mention the nationwide telecommunications network.”
Eric thought of McDonald's, KFC, and Starbucks chain stores all over the big cities and small towns in the United States, smiled, and said: "I didn't talk about building a large-scale mobile communication network with no dead ends like a telecommunications company. You should concentrate on doing your own thing well." , I will know when the time comes." (To be continued.)