Category: Money tips Release Date: 2007-04-26
"Li Ka-shing", "20 million dollars" (Contract 160 million yuan), any one word on a start-up companies both in terms of doping.
September 7, the reporter was informed that the creation of only 3 years of wireless search service provider Cgogo, have been received 2 months ago from Hong Kong, Li Ka Shing Foundation, more than 2000 million dollars in strategic investments. According to informed sources, since the beginning of summer, Mr. Zhu and his management team from time to time would go to No. 1 East Chang An Avenue - Li Ka Shing Foundation office in Beijing - a trip.
Cgogo is a professional search engine development company, has been the creation of the United States by the VoIP phone suppliers NeTrue of the returnees are Mr. Zhu was founded in 2003. At present it is the SP platform of China Unicom and China Mobile Monternet's search service provider, is also the first in the wireless Internet, to provide search services for companies. In 2004, Cgogo has received from venture investors, JAFCO Asia's first 5 million U.S. dollars venture funds.
Informed sources in the wireless industry, the Li Ka-shing's Tom in the mainland have wireless, and in Hong Kong's Hutchison 3G operator qualification. With the approach of mainland China 3G licenses, but also want to master the right to speak on mobile search and decided to invest in his capacity as a strategic shareholder Cgogo. However, this 20 million dollars invested in shares in the ratio of Cgogo not known.
"Whether you are in the countryside, or in the speeding train, as long as there is cell phone signal, you will be able to search what you want." Zhu Bo Cgogo every time I see people who want to know, he would like the opening.
In 2000, Mr. Zhu has just returned from the United States to withdraw NeTrue, trying to fast-growing Chinese Internet industry, looking for entrepreneurial opportunities. At that time, cell phone-based Web search engine is almost empty, while China's mobile phone users is the world's largest, so Zhu Bo decided to start from the mobile search engine.
As a new conceptual company, Mr. Zhu then gradually Cgogo product line was extended to launch, including web search, wireless site Just arrived search, wireless network real name, e-commerce parity search and other products. It is, at present, the use of Cgogo's more than 800 million active users.
According to iResearch of the survey, in 2008, China's wireless search market will more than 7.8 billion revenue. Meanwhile, the mobile search market has been this piece of Google, Baidu and other search engine giant to eye on. Not long ago, Google, Baidu respectively Nokia and Sony Ericsson join hands in order to provide users with more convenient way to find information.
At present, Cgogo bid rankings have been developed, including a number of charges, including business and has received some income.
"Users can not search results page by page to find what she wants, a strong purpose." Zhu Bo believes that search on mobile phones, due to the phone screen size limit, as well as the privacy of mobile media properties , the user search results for the directness of expression was evident.
To this end, Cgogo formed more than 100 people in R & D team to analyze user behavior and recommend countermeasures. At present, Cgogo in Beijing, Zhejiang set up R & D center.
The phones at the recent on-line "Yellow Pages Map Search" Zhu was called "Cgogo shift to an integrated search engine" sign.
According to reports, Cgogo Yellow Pages map search, is to meet the practicality of mobile phone users in the local search. For example, in Beijing, foreign tourists to Beijing Mobile Yellow Pages Search the map "Quanjude" and return the information in visual maps, it will mark more than 60 out of Beijing Quan Ju De Roast Duck Store location, or even specific to this store The longitude and latitude. In addition, by clicking on the "details" you can see that each store detailed maps and contact telephone number, or even that stores all of the goods offered by the information, and direct dial telephone, you can contact the store directly.
According to reports, Cgogo In order to do a user search precision, has been signed up hundreds of channels of domestic agents, in order to Cgogo gather information, and the sale of maps Yellow Pages bid ranking service. "At present, there are already more than 400 million basic information, and accurate information on more than 100 million. Through the bid ranking, we can get revenue from the businesses, and give the user free of charge."
Zhu Bo said that as mobile search engine service providers in search of profit model the issue of confusion has been resolved, the next to do is to improve the products and services, "Soon, we will launch a searchable Internet video program of traditional products, this will be our next focus of a product. "learned, Cgogo now almost all major domestic and foreign mobile phone brands have a strategic partnership, providing them with mobile phone terminal search engine technology.
