Occupying the headlines

  "Hurry up and get out of bed, it's already 10 o'clock in the morning! Are you a pig or something? You sleep so much!"

  King Zhengyu, who was sleeping very sweetly, woke up in a push and pull, squinting his eyes open to see the face of Huo Guangbo.

  "What's going on? You were dead drunk last night, and now you're all energetic? Do you know I didn't sleep well the whole night because of your snoring?" Wang Zhengyu mumbled, then prepared to turn over and continue sleeping.

  Wang Zhengyu wasn't lying, he indeed fell asleep in a daze when it started to get light outside the window. The reason for his insomnia was absolutely not because of Huo Guangbo's snoring.

  "Wow! I've been snoring and you can't sleep? How did we survive in the same dorm for two years? Stop messing around, get up quickly, Qian Du has already made a move, your software is trending on the headlines! Unfortunately, you're stealing your own thunder, both headlines are occupied by you, hurry up and take a look!"

  Huò Guǎngbó ignored Wang Zhènyǔ's words and directly reached out to lift up the entire set of clothes on Wang Zhènyǔ's body.

  Although the air conditioner was on in the room, it was still a sudden chill for Wang Zhengyu to be woken up by someone lifting his quilt at dawn, and he quickly woke up.

  "What's the headline? What headline?" Wang Zhengyu asked casually while putting on his clothes, having lost all sleepiness.

  "Mysterious boy challenges blindfolded pulse diagnosis, 100% accurate and shocking the whole country! A pioneering APP, super intelligent software is born! Haha, apart from our Huaxia's most powerful one, you alone occupy two headlines, Wang Feng will be depressed again!" Ho Guangbo exclaimed excitedly, as if he himself was on the headlines.

  "Right? I remember someone said two days ago that I couldn't be on the headlines, have you admitted defeat now?" Wang Zhengyu casually despised Huo Guangbo with a sentence, then quickly dressed up and rushed to the computer.

  The computer screen displays the homepage of Qihoo News, with today's top three headlines. The first one is about the chairman of Hua Xia giving a speech, and the remaining two are exactly the same as the two pieces of news that Ho Guangbo just mentioned.

  For news about diagnosing pregnancy by feeling the pulse, Wang Zhengyu had lost interest and casually opened the news of the era-making APP. He quickly browsed through it.

  It's clear that this headline news is actually a promotional article for his smart voice-controlled smartphone app. However, the article provides a detailed introduction to the advantages of the smart voice-controlled smartphone software, and subtly highlights the technological content it contains, making this promotional article able to proudly occupy the position of headline news.

  The latest news also provided a video link to Youku, which after clicking, showed the operation of the phone after installing this voice-controlled smart software. The smooth operation and various cool functions were all demonstrated in the video.

  Wang Zhengyu endured the tedious video for 15 minutes and found that there were many functions he hadn't discovered, which were all demonstrated in the video. However, the way they were presented made Wang Zhengyu want to mock them sarcastically.

  For example, in a video, there is a segment where the 12306 ticket booking software is opened to book tickets. When it comes to entering the verification code, surprisingly, the operator does not need to actively identify it. The cartoon beauty's mobile phone housekeeper image directly takes out a cartoon pen from her turbulent chest and fills it in...

  Is this a demonstration of software functionality or an inducement to crime? Was the software really designed like this?

  And at the end of the video, technical personnel used professional testing software to compare and test two mobile phones with and without the voice-controlled smart pipe installed. The data proved that this APP can improve the performance of the phone. Of course, the last sentence "exclusive download on Qihoo 360 Android Market" was directly ignored by Wang Zhengyu...

  Wang Zhengyu was too lazy to comment on the advertisement that kept popping up on the screen, "Smart voice-controlled mobile butler, make your phone smarter!"

  What excited Wang Zhengyu, however, was the number of views displayed below the video. This video had been uploaded for only six hours and had already been viewed over 600,000 times, with more than 20,000 comments...

  "Is this video real or fake? No way, I have to hurry up and download it to try!"

  "Don't fool people anymore? This is actually a trailer for Apple 7, right?"

  "It's true, I just downloaded it, and it's really cool!"

  "Huh? How come there's no Apple online? Are you kidding me? Does it only support Android?"

  "Awesome! After installing this housekeeper system, I suddenly feel that my Redmi has become high-end! I'll tell you that this comment was posted using the mobile assistant!"

  ……

  "It seems that finding Qian Du to promote this step was indeed the right move. By the way, you were so enthusiastic about promoting this software yesterday, why didn't you think of making a video and uploading it to Youku?" Wang Zhengyu nodded in satisfaction, then looked at He Guangbo with disdain.

  "I've thought of everything, others are still messing around! But it's not just Youku, you search on Baidu and all sorts of Android forums have posts about this software, with pictures and videos, Tencent, Netease, Sohu, the three major portals all have news about your software. I reckon it won't be long before this software becomes popular!"

  Huo Guangbo ignored Wang Zhengyu's disdain and excitedly said.

  He certainly has enough reason to be excited, now that the software is being hyped up even more, by the time he and Wang Zhengyu's company opens, it will have an even more sensational effect, of course, most importantly, having more customers means making more money.

  However, Huo Guangbo still underestimated the spread effect of high-tech. In fact, in just a few hours, this software has become popular, and even triggered a chain storm in China's IT industry.

  ……

  Zhang Hua Jian has been awake for twenty hours already.

  Starting from being called back to the company by Chen Peng during his vacation, his nerves have been tense. He had many conversations with high-level executives of other companies and even met with the CEO of Qihoo 360, after which he received a notice from headquarters requiring their department to cooperate with the propaganda department, working overtime to heavily promote this crazy APP.

  In fact, the promotional videos on Youku and the pictures on the Android forum are all from them.

  However, Zhang Hua Jian did not feel tired at this time, because compared to the fatigue of working overtime all night, achieving results at this time was more exciting.

  Since the propaganda was fully unfolded, it has been only six and a half hours so far. Among them, there are three hours in the wee hours, and the software download volume has reached more than 5 million times. Accompanied by this, Qihoo's Android market was downloaded more than 3 million times at the same time, which means that in just six and a half hours, Qihoo's Android market gained more than 3 million new users.

  And this number will obviously continue to grow exponentially over time. To put it into perspective, the software had only been downloaded a little over 700,000 times before 8am, but in just two and a half hours from 8am to 10:30am, the download volume increased by 4.9 million times.

  This is absolutely an incredible achievement.

  Although the increase of more than 300,000 new users is insignificant compared to the hundreds of millions of Hua Xia mobile phone market, Zhang Huajian believes that with the passage of time and super good user reputation, this number will still grow geometrically.

  It turned out that Zhang Huaqiang's judgment was correct. After he had lunch and took a nap in the office, the mobile housekeeper had been downloaded over 130 million times, while Qihoo's Android market gained more than 10 million new users by around 4 pm.

  If it weren't for everyone being exhausted at this time, Zhang Huajian would have wanted to hold a celebratory banquet directly.

  However, Zhang Hua Jian, who was unfamiliar with this programming technology, did not know that as the software spread rapidly, it had shocked countless Chinese tech giants.

  ……

  In the underground laboratory of a large building with a sign that reads "Huaxia Network Information Center" in Beijing, more than 70 computers are neatly arranged in rows in the hall, and countless people are working busily among them.

  This is a national-level computer science laboratory. Although the staff here are generally only in their 20s and 30s, with those over 40 being extremely rare, anyone you pick out at random is absolutely an expert in some aspect of China's IT industry.

  Many widely used software related to national security and military informatization were developed by these technical personnel. Since last year, they have also been responsible for developing a new generation of autonomous intellectual property operating systems.

  But today was clearly a special day, as most people were not buried in work in front of their computers, but instead gathered in the hall in front of the large screen, two software engineers stared blankly at each other while reverse-assembling a civilian mobile phone software.

  The software being studied is naturally Tian Shu sharing and Wang Zhengyu's intelligent voice-controlled mobile butler.

  This software attracted their attention so quickly, still thanks to Baidu.

  Qihoo's publicity methods are indeed high-profile, especially the news that was reprinted by major portal websites attracted the attention of experts who usually pay close attention to Huaxia Software's dynamics. The lavish praise in the article also made these self-proclaimed masters of core technology secretly uncomfortable.

  At that time, some people downloaded the software and started experiencing it on the spot, and were shocked immediately after the experience.

  Outsiders watch the excitement, insiders watch the doorway.

  Not to mention anything else, just talking about the Chinese character processing capabilities of this software, it shocked a group of people at that time. To know that the powerful Chinese character processing capability is one of the difficult problems they need to solve when developing an operating system. So in just a few minutes, all the researchers in the laboratory were attracted by this software.

  After being shocked by the software's performance, these researchers immediately began to use the large computers in the laboratory to reverse-engineer and disassemble the software, starting to crack the installation package.

  This is just the beginning of the breakdown, and these people are completely stunned.

  "What the...?! What kind of encryption algorithm is this? Even Galaxy 3 can't crack it?"

  "Go straight to the mobile phone, start analyzing from the installed program file!"

  "What the heck, is this programmed in Chinese? It can actually run perfectly on Android?"

  "Is this going to modify the executable code of the Android operating system?"

  "No kidding, I'm shocked. During installation, it directly modified the operating system's executable code. How on earth did they manage to do this?"

  The more they analyzed, the more shocked they became. The whispers of analysis gradually faded away, and everyone stared blankly at the big screen.