35: Section 35

But he didn't expect it.

This morning, Li Wenqiu suddenly found him and said that their technical department had also developed Big Data code on the same level as Douyin's Big Data.

Facing President Ma's inquiry, Li Wenqiu nodded directly.

"We already tested it overnight yesterday."

"Whether it's ad integration or video recommendations, it's extremely complete and in no way inferior to Douyin's Big Data."

"Here's the detailed test report."

Li Wenqiu handed the stack of documents in his hand to President Ma.

President Ma also read them in detail.

Not long after.

President Ma put down the thick documents in his hand and slowly exhaled deeply.

"It can indeed rival Douyin's Big Data."

"I didn't expect you to actually pull it off."

"Tell me."

President Ma looked at Li Wenqiu in front of him.

"What do you want to do next?"

Li Wenqiu took a deep breath.

"Five hundred million budget, give me a five hundred million budget, and within a month, I will make Weikan's users surpass Douyin again."

"The only gap between Douyin and our Weikan is a complete Big Data."

Listening to Li Wenqiu's words, President Ma was silent for a moment.

Then he slowly spoke.

"I'll give you one last chance."

"If you fail again this time, your position as manager will be replaced."

"Okay."

Li Wenqiu nodded.

"This time, Weikan will definitely not have any more problems."

After receiving the budget from President Ma.

Li Wenqiu did not immediately start promoting Weikan, nor did he immediately integrate Douyin's Big Data into Weikan.

He gathered all the elites in his department and began to modify the Douyin Big Data without changing its functionality.

After all, he knew very well.

If the similarity of such critical code exceeded fifty percent, it would be infringement; if it reached eighty percent, it would be plagiarism.

So he had to modify this string of code first.

Of course.

To avoid affecting its functionality, he didn't cut too much from it, only made it more complex so its original appearance couldn't be seen.

As for the essence and logic of this code, no one within Tencent could understand it.

The code Wang Mo wrote was incomprehensible to anyone.

And three days later.

Weikan began to integrate the Big Data code stolen from Douyin, and that same night, they started promoting Weikan frantically.

Even.

They once again launched an activity where old Weikan users could receive Q Coins for free.

And this time, it wasn't just Q Coins.

Weikan even launched a reward activity where users could get cash for downloading the app.

Under such a massive resource allocation from Tencent.

Weikan's download volume exceeded ten million on that day, and three days later, its daily active users returned to fifteen million.

And these Weikan users also clearly noticed.

This time, Weikan seemed a bit different.

They could indeed see the content they liked, and the ads were also normal.

Just as Li Wenqiu thought that Weikan's user count would soon surpass Douyin's.

An unexpected change suddenly occurred.

Starting from 6 PM that day.

All users who were browsing Weikan noticed something was wrong.

The videos Weikan pushed started to be completely opposite to their preferences.

Videos they usually hated and never watched began to constantly appear on Weikan's homepage.

Various advertisements were also completely different from their preferences.

Even.

Videos that had not been approved by Weikan's internal review began to be pushed to users' phones.

Various bloody and violent videos started being recommended to students and women.

Various female-related videos started being pushed to straight men.

For a time.

All of Weikan's video recommendations were completely messed up.

In just two hours, Weikan's uninstallation volume exceeded three million.

And all of this was within Wang Mo's calculations.

The code that was stolen was originally specifically modified by him.

On the surface, this code would indeed perform normal Big Data promotion, but at a certain point in time, a few key positive and negative symbols in the code would invert.

This way.

This so-called Big Data recommendation became a reverse Big Data.

And with the level of programmers within Tencent, they simply couldn't discover the hidden danger Wang Mo had planted.

At the same time.

Within Tencent's Weikan department.

Because Weikan's Big Data recommendations suddenly had problems, the entire department instantly became a chaotic mess.

"Have you still not found the problem? Hurry up and investigate!"

Li Wenqiu's irritable voice kept ringing out.

The engineers who were troubleshooting the problem were also drenched in sweat.

"We can't find the problem at all, it's as if this Big Data suddenly went wrong."

"It's only been a few hours, and Weikan's uninstallation volume is already several millions."

Listening to this person's words, Li Wenqiu's expression became even uglier.

"First, disconnect the current Big Data, continue using our previous one, and switch back after the problem is found."

Upon hearing this.

Someone below shook his head.

"The logic of this code is very strange; once we integrated it into Weikan, it cannot be disconnected while the Weikan server is running."

"We must temporarily shut down the Weikan server."

After this person finished speaking, Li Wenqiu felt dizzy and almost fell to the ground.

He looked at Weikan's continuously falling real-time data and finally made up his mind.

"Then shut down the Weikan server first; we can't let more users uninstall Weikan."

"To promote Weikan, the group has already invested over a hundred million in the past two days; we can't continue to lose money."

"Okay."

A few minutes later.

The Weikan server was shut down.

Major app stores also temporarily delisted Weikan.