Since the matter had already happened, Yang Zhiyuan could do nothing no matter how angry he was. After an hour of contemplation, Yang Zhiyuan issued orders at the fastest speed.
The first order was to ask Yahoo to remove all links related to Google. In short, Yahoo's related websites could not have any links related to Google.
Yahoo's move was very vicious. It was directly cutting off Google's traffic, as the largest traffic on the internet seemed to still come from Yahoo.
The second point was that Yahoo's advertising alliance would immediately stop all advertising placements for Google. This was Yahoo's most ruthless move. Because Google's only current income relied on advertisements displayed on Google pages to generate profits, without advertisements, Google's revenue source would be completely cut off.
Not only that, but Yahoo also ordered the advertising alliance to withhold all advertising revenue shared with Google. Of course, it wasn't that they wouldn't pay, but they would find excuses and reasons to delay. Given the efficiency of the US judicial system, delaying these payments for a year would not be a problem.
The last order was to divert a large amount of the company's resources to the research and development of the Yahoo search engine. That's right, Yahoo was now developing its own search engine.
Yang Zhiyuan was not unprepared. When he discovered the enormous traffic of search engines and the astonishing growth potential of Google, he had already begun to consider how to limit Google's development and what to do if he couldn't acquire Google.
The best solution was to develop a search engine himself, so that Yahoo would have its own search engine, thus eliminating concerns about Google.
This work had already begun several months ago, but Yahoo's internal attitude had always been somewhat perfunctory, believing that with Google around, their own search engine was not that urgently needed and could be delayed.
However, this was naturally no longer possible. Yang Zhiyuan ordered a large amount of company resources and capabilities to be channeled into this project, requiring their own search engine to be launched within a month at the shortest.
However, this also presented a very realistic problem: Yahoo's homepage would no longer have a search engine.
After all, Google had already decisively cut off its search engine links on Yahoo's homepage. But even if it hadn't, Yang Zhiyuan would never have the audacity to use Google's search engine again.
And Yahoo's own search engine was still under development. Even if it could be completed within a month, there was still a one-month gap, wasn't there?
In fact, the best solution would be to collaborate with a third-party search engine to temporarily support them for a month.
There were still many non-Google search engines on the market at that time, such as Microsoft, which had its own search engine, eBay also had its own search engine, and even movie companies like Time Warner had a search engine under their umbrella.
But Yang Zhiyuan calculated and felt that none of them were suitable.
Even if Yang Zhiyuan was willing to cooperate with the search engines of large companies, they probably wouldn't be willing to cooperate for just one month.
As for the search engines of small companies, Yang Zhiyuan was afraid of being at a disadvantage and nurturing another Google. After all, Google had become the number one search engine in the market in one go after cooperating with Yahoo. This situation had to be considered!
"Forget it, it's only a month in total. Yahoo has been without a search engine for a full 6 years since its creation. Losing search engine functionality for a month should not be a big deal!" Yang Zhiyuan muttered, then made the decision he would regret most in his life.
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Meanwhile, after hanging up the phone with Yang Zhiyuan, Huang He smiled and said to Larry Page, "Mr. Page, it seems you will have to go through some difficult times ahead."
"Yes!" Larry Page nodded. "But with the help of Mr. Swift and Mr. Huang He, I believe we will be fearless!" Larry Page was telling the truth. After receiving a large sum of money from Little Swift, even if Google had zero income, it would not be a problem to last for several years.
If Google could not grow stronger within a few years, then its demise would be justified.
However, in reality, Larry Page was far less confident than he appeared. After all, Yahoo was too enormous at the moment, with its tentacles spread throughout the entire network, making it an extremely powerful giant. Challenging such a giant was still a very dangerous endeavor for Google.
As expected, the next day, Yahoo's various fighting tactics were unleashed, and the market soon reported the breakdown between Yahoo and Google, and the news that Yahoo could no longer use Google search.
However, it is worth mentioning that compared to Yahoo's ruthlessness, Google Search was relatively restrained. Although it deleted all direct links to Yahoo, if one searched for "portal websites" in the search engine, Yahoo could still be found. However, Yahoo's position dropped from the first place to the tenth place, requiring users to scroll to the bottom of the page to see the Yahoo link.
And the first place at this time was occupied by Microsoft's
Although these 20% shares were invested by Western Mustang Company with its own funds and had nothing to do with the second round of the 20 billion investment fund, it did not prevent the market from having a reduced imagination regarding Western Mustang Company.
However, fortunately, the second round of the 20 billion investment fund had already been completely sold.
First, most of the funds from the first round of investment had largely flowed back into the company's hands. The second round of actual sales was only around 14 billion.
And because of the huge returns from the first round of funds, the entire market had boundless imagination for Little Swift. Moreover, this time it wasn't just black people, but even white people were crying and begging to entrust their money to Little Swift. Many people withdrew their funds from other companies and reinvested them in Western Mustang Company.
Therefore, before the news broke, Western Mustang Company's 20 billion funds were completely sold out. Little Swift, this insignificant black thug, actually held an astonishing 20 billion US dollars in his hands one day.
However, only then did the news of Western Mustang Company's investment in Google come out, causing continuous worry in the market, with the fear that this second round of funds would likely have a very high possibility of incurring losses.
It was at this time that Western Mustang Company, holding 20 billion US dollars, made its first move, which was to invest all 20 billion US dollars in the financial market. However, instead of buying stocks from the stock market, it used the 20 billion US dollars as collateral to obtain 20 billion US dollars worth of Yahoo stocks from institutions for a period of six months.
Then, these stocks were all put into the market, turning back into 20 billion US dollars in cash.
In other words, Western Mustang Company was shorting Yahoo's stock.
Western Mustang Company actually believed that Yahoo's stock price would plummet!!