Chapter five hundred and fifty-eight, a simple errand to win the White House banquet
So, as Alice expected, the news that the two typhoon-class submarines were "stolen" was found by the Ministry of Defense, and she was found less than a week. Among them, there were still batches of treatment. The first thing that was alarmed was the CIAs stationed in the foreign countries. NSA also went crazy to investigate various suspicious clues, and even the F-type was not idle, and began to conduct a very professional investigation in China.
Four hundred nuclear bombs fell into the hands of others, which is indeed not something that anyone could ignore. Fortunately, the mainstream media did not get the relevant information, and even if they were obtained, they could not play it at will. This is the case for the public. Since Alice was invited to the Pentagon, she naturally could not leave. Before she could actually give a solution, she really had to stay in Washington.
It is always easy for professionals to fool laymen. There is only one job that Alice really needs to do, that is, to build a search engine shell. As for how to use it to find a needle in a haystack to find a website that sells nuclear bombs in a massive amount of information, it has nothing to do with her.
But the relevant supporting work still needs to be carried out. Alice did not lie. She did register a patent for search engine related technologies early on. Poor people from the Patent Office are just experts in the administrative field. In fact, they don’t have much deeper understanding of what search engine technology actually means. They only care whether this technology has existed before.
So, on the first night after leaving the Pentagon, Alice immediately called Los Angeles and asked Sophie to find an office in Alice Building, register a company, named Google, and the company category is classified into the computer field, but don't recruit any employees for the time being, just keep an empty shell.
With a company and a patent, everything will be easy.
However, patent registration is very simple, but it is also a very troublesome thing to practice. The development of online search engines is a process, not achieved overnight by a genius. Although this entire period of time has not been a decade, it is just a microcosm of the overall situation in the computer industry, and does not mean that it is really a technology that has been formed.
The earliest search engine example was Yahoo. In 1994, the company's founders, Jerry Yang and Ferroshan, studied at Stanford. In order to complete their papers, they became obsessed with the Internet and spent all day searching for information. In this process, they collected many sites they were interested in and added to bookmarks, such as scientific research projects, tennis games, etc., for searching.
However, as more and more sites were collected, they began to feel that it became very inconvenient to find information, so they sorted out the bookmarks by category, and when each directory could not accommodate it, they were further divided into subdirectories. This core method has always been Yahoo's tradition.
Soon, these two genius young people compiled the relevant information into software and put it on the Internet for other surfers to enjoy it. Soon after, their website attracted many users and received great attention and widespread welcome. People gave feedback on the information and attached constructive opinions to make the content more perfect. In the 1990s, such a sudden incident made them embark on the road of starting a business without hesitation, thus realizing the birth of a giant company named Yahoo.
However, although Yahoo has achieved success, it has only begun in the field of search engine technology. In fact, strictly speaking, it is not even a search engine. It is forgetting to eat and sleep, and classified a large number of well-known websites with human resources. The essence of Yahoo is actually just a database website, which is far from what people usually understand.
Alice made a coincidence because she knew that for a long time, people in the Silicon Valley really had no idea about patents.
The one who was truly considered the originator of search engines in the later stage was actually an unknown archie - of course, except for industry insiders. It was in 1990 that teachers and students from the School of Computer Science at McGill University in Canada developed this program.
In this idea, people use ftp to share communication resources. Archie can regularly collect and analyze file name information on the ftp server and provide searches for files in each ftp host. Users must enter the exact file name to search, and Archie tells the user which ftp server can download the file.
In general, although the information resources collected by Archie are not web pages, the basic working method is the same as search engines: automatically collect information resources, establish indexes, and provide retrieval services.
However, as Alice was happy, the teachers and students had no intention of registering patents immediately. Fortunately, she had time to register the relevant patents earlier. Now it was only February and March, and she tied the technology and the company together. There were not too many potential troubles left in the future.
Then the question is, what kind of search engine should she provide to the Ministry of Defense?
Take it on Baidu?
Google it?
Just kidding, if software is so high-end, the hardware is simply useless, right?
So, Alice really just wrote the archie, of course, the enhanced optimization version. Once the product was provided, her work ended here. When looking for illegal websites, she would leave it to NSA and the others to handle. She had other things to do.
For example, having a meal with the Bush couple in the White House or something.
"Thank you very much, Alice."
In the private White House restaurant, Bush raised his glass to her and said, "If it weren't for your help, God knows how many detours those people would take!"
Secret Service members and waiters who serve the food will only appear before their eyes when needed. The elegantly decorated restaurant and the rich and delicious dishes are the only light music played by the record player that can be used as a third party, which has a slight presence.
"It's just a citizen's obligation, Mr. President." Alice clinked glasses with him and said, "How about it, do I have the style of a Marine Corps?"
Everyone laughed. As one of the accompanying tonight, Alice's very familiar Bush was of course present. The future 43rd president of the United States and the most brainless president in American history. This year, he is still in his early forties and has limited gray hair growth.
"Alice, I've heard some news about the Manhattan real estate industry recently. You seem to be building a vanda square in the Midtown?"
Alice put down the glass, swallowed the orange juice that had just been in her mouth, and looked at Bush Jr.: "Oh, we're going to talk about this now? You probably have visited my first square in London?"
Bush shook his head and smiled, "That's not yet. My father has been busy with the Soviet Union recently. Now Gorbachev has made such a big mistake again, so we have to lose a lot of hair for him."
So, you, a fool, suddenly talked about what this meant. Alice had a fake smile on her face, resisting the urge to splash orange juice on his face.
Sure enough, Bush, the old man immediately made a comeback for his naughty child: "Haha, Alice's career is developing better and better, and she has been moving from the computer industry to the industrial real estate industry, and has also moved the area from the west coast to the east coast. However, Midtown Manhattan is absolutely valuable. If you really want to build Vanda Square there, it will cost a lot, right?"
Seeing the name of a project that was "vanda Plaza", instead of "vanda's industry" as the noun unit, Alice knew it.
There is no need to say, how can politicians invite capitalists to a family dinner just for a routine thank you?
Bush continued: "At the same time, your interactions with arms dealers have become closer. Northrop Grumman specializes in the production of warships and radars, has taken on the construction of Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, and has made great achievements in the military industry. It is natural that they can find you to cooperate. The role that computers will play in the future is becoming more and more obvious."
Bush spoke slowly, Alice thought quickly, so as expected, the following topic began to be specialized in the military industry. Bush was chatting, and Alice was also thinking that the Soviet Union was shaky, two typhoon-class nuclear submarines were stolen, and the Iraq-Iraq War was over, but the relationship between Iraq and Kuwait became tense again. Thinking about Bush's most important measures in the four years since his administration, the purpose of this dinner was obviously extremely impressive.
"Modern warfare is increasingly relying on information advantages, and this all depends on the high development of computer technology. Alice, I heard that you established a computer research institute in the UK. In the past three or two years, you have produced some interesting patents, such as the USB standard at the beginning of the year. So I'm curious, are you planning to seize the supercomputer market of ibm?"
……What?
Alice was waiting for Bush to talk to her about military development in depth, why did her painting style suddenly change?
Ah no, why did the wind suddenly change?
"Supercomputer..."
Alice blinked her eyes: "If I could get a more advanced industrial machine tool, I designed it myself, Intel could indeed produce a trans-era CPU immediately. So if you want to kill ibm... it's totally possible...you are..."
"Oh, don't get me wrong. I didn't think about letting you compete with ibm, that has nothing to do with me, right?" Bush said with a laugh. "But you have to know, kid, the stronger the United States is, the more powerful we need to support this powerful force. Modern warfare will rely heavily on computer performance. If you can provide the Ministry of Defense with a batch of supercomputers with exceptionally superior performance, I believe this will be of great benefit to our future development, right?"
It turns out that I have gone around such a big circle for this kind of thing.
Chapter completed!