Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 629: Russia’s Search Engine

After hearing Schaefer's words, Chen Yiyang instantly understood his intention.

If Schaefer could tell the South Koreans that he persuaded Italy to give up.

Then he might negotiate quite a few benefits from the South Koreans.

He had no official status, so he need not worry about taking money from the South Koreans directly.

Given this, Chen Yiyang straightforwardly gave Schaefer Cui Zhihao's contact information.

A few days later, Chen Yiyang finally met Lei Jun.

Chen Yiyang wanted to tell Lei Jun about his plan to buy Kaidi.

Back then, Lei Jun had invested a lot of money in Kaidi, but now these investments were stuck.

Hearing that Chen Yiyang was willing to buy Kaidi, Lei Jun naturally supported it with both hands.

"But currently, the map market is mainly dominated by Gaode, Qian Du, and Tengxu.

After you buy Kaidi, what is your plan for Kaidi's positioning?" Lei Jun was a bit curious.

"I plan to combine Kaidi with Flash Sale." Chen Yiyang and Lei Jun had no commercial competition.

So he spoke directly.

"Kaidi's offline maps are a huge asset. Buying Kaidi means I don't need to draw maps from scratch; I just need to use current technology and user feedback to update the maps online promptly.

This way, I can allocate the spare personnel to conduct on-site inspections of those food delivery merchants on various flash sale platforms."

"Food delivery merchants?" Lei Jun didn't expect Chen Yiyang to use maps for this. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

"Yes, food delivery merchants." Chen Yiyang nodded and continued, "I carefully studied the policies of various delivery and flash sale platforms.

Actually, even if the platform bears part of the discount cost, the pressure on brick-and-mortar merchants is still significant.

It's not that the platform's commission is too high, but the rent for physical stores is exorbitant. So, many food delivery merchants opt for places with poor sanitary conditions, which might not even count as storefronts, to do deliveries.

In name, they are gourmet restaurants, but in reality, the store might reside in a residential area, preparing takeouts for many people without any supervision."

"But every platform generally requires delivery merchants to upload photos of their stores." Lei Jun remarked.

"Correct." Chen Yiyang clapped his hands and continued, "So, many delivery merchants choose to photoshop their images or directly use photos of other stores to pretend they are their own.

After purchasing Kaidi, I plan to create a gourmet map. The map will prioritize uploading photos of all dining establishments.

By then, which stores are shoddy and which are indeed gourmet restaurants will be crystal clear."

"That's a clever move." Lei Jun understood Chen Yiyang's intention.

Yiyang Flash Sale and Yiyang Delivery are newcomers. They haven't been operating as long as the other two.

Therefore, merchants on the Yiyang System platform are generally chain stores or large dining establishments.

These dining establishments are easy to contact and negotiate discounts with.

However, many small merchants located in remote areas, specializing in deliveries, usually won't be on the Yiyang System platform.

Because such merchants require the platform's runners to proactively contact them.

This was originally a disadvantage for the Yiyang System platform.

Because in terms of variety and number of stores, the Yiyang System platform is less than the other two.

But if Chen Yiyang really starts the gourmet map, this would instead become an advantage.

Because if a store on the Ugly Group or Taobao platform displays high-end, stylish boutique store images.

But on the Kaidi map, it shows as a shabby store tucked in a corner.

That would undoubtedly trend as hot news.

Whoever provides evidence first will have the upper hand.

Chen Yiyang could have the map company's staff take real photos on-site, which would certainly be more credible than delivery platforms.

This way, the Yiyang System platform will attract more users.

"I'll contact the Kaidi management for you." Lei Jun was very optimistic about Chen Yiyang's idea.

He proactively offered to help Chen Yiyang with this task.

If Kaidi's stock price could be driven up again due to the gourmet map, his investments could finally be cashed out.

"There's one more thing." After discussing the map, Chen Yiyang talked with Lei Jun about his plan to create a search engine.

In today's network environment, building a search engine from scratch is very challenging.

Lei Jun thought for a moment and said directly, "Other search engines have been optimized to near perfection with countless user feedback.

When you introduce a new search engine, it would take years to fine-tune.

Not to mention, your search engine doesn't plan to include many ads and will filter out ineffective online information.

This aspect of refinement will require significant effort."

"And even if you want to buy a search engine, no good ones are willing to sell."

Chen Yiyang was certainly aware of these issues. But there are no alternatives.

The good search engines on the market aren't for sale.

"I do know of a search engine that might be suitable for you."

Lei Jun said, "Are you aware of the Russian search engine Yandex?"

"Let me check." Chen Yiyang took out his phone and searched.

He found that this foreign search engine surprisingly hadn't been blocked domestically.

Moreover, this search engine could find a lot of content that domestic search engines didn't support.

"I don't know whether it's because relations between China and Russia are good lately, or other reasons. This Russian search engine is actually a legal foreign search engine in China.

And this search engine can search for a lot of foreign content, with few ads and high search accuracy.

Because of this, the search engine has climbed into the top five usage spots domestically."

Chen Yiyang casually checked the company behind this search engine.

Although Yandex isn't very famous domestically, it's considered a relatively well-known search engine internationally, often referred to as the Google of Russia.

So, a Russian conglomerate spent billions of USD buying this search engine a few years ago.

Spending billions of USD on a search engine isn't economically savvy.

But simply purchasing the technology and a special domestic version authorization poses no issue.

Many foreign software applications have a common problem.

The software has a solid foundation, but since their commercial environment isn't as competitive as domestically,

the software update speed is slow.

Chen Yiyang felt that if he could acquire the technology behind this search engine and then have a domestic tech team iterate it according to the domestic environment a few times, it might turn out to be more useful than the domestic alternatives.

Moreover, Chen Yiyang still held DeepSeek, which could be embedded into this search engine to enhance its intelligence.

"Thank you so much." Chen Yiyang, enlightened by Lei Jun, immediately realized he should quickly call his friends in Russia to inquire about how to connect with Yandex.