The Goddess Shines on America

Therefore, everything was as Alice expected. As soon as the news of the "stolen" of the two Typhoon-class submarines was learned by the Ministry of National Defense, she was found within a week. Among them, there are still batches of treatment. The real ones who were first alarmed were the CIAs stationed abroad. The NSA also frantically investigated all kinds of suspicious clues. Even the FBI was not idle, and it started to be very professional. to carry out investigations in the country.

Four hundred nuclear bombs fell into the hands of others. This is indeed not something that anyone can ignore. Fortunately, the mainstream media did not get the relevant information, and even if they did, they could not broadcast it at will. The public is like this. Since Alice was invited to the Pentagon, she naturally couldn't just leave. She really had to live in Washington before she actually gave a solution.

It is always easy for professionals to fool laymen. There is only one job that Alice really needs to do, and that is to build a search engine shell. As for how to use it to search for a needle in a haystack to find a website selling nuclear bombs in the massive amount of information, it has nothing to do with her at all.

However, related supporting work still needs to be carried out. Alice did not lie, she had indeed registered the patent for the related technology of the search engine early. Those people in the poor patent office are only experts in the administrative field. They don't have a deep understanding of what search engine technology means. They only care about whether this technology has existed before.

So, on the first night out of the Pentagon, Alice immediately called Los Angeles and asked Sophie to find an office in the Alice Building and register a company called Google. The company category was classified into the computer field, but temporarily Don't recruit any employees, just keep an empty shell.

With an enterprise and a patent, everything will be easy to handle.

However, patent registration is very simple, but it is also a very troublesome thing to practice. The development of a web search engine is a process, and it is not achieved overnight by a genius. Although the entire period of time has not lasted ten years, it is only a microcosm of the overall situation of the computer industry, and it does not mean that it is really a technology that has been formed all at once.

The earliest example of a search engine is Yahoo. In 1994, the founders of the company, Jerry Yang and Ferro, were studying at Stanford. They became obsessed with the Internet in order to complete their thesis, and spent all day looking for information on the Internet. In the process, they collected and bookmarked many sites they were interested in, such as scientific research projects, tennis matches, etc., for easy search.

However, as more and more sites were collected, they began to feel that it was very inconvenient to find information, so they organized these bookmarks by category, and when each category could not fit, they subdivided into subcategories . This core approach has always been Yahoo's tradition.

Soon, these two young geniuses compiled relevant information into software and put it on the Internet for other surfers to enjoy. Soon after, their website attracted many users and received great attention and wide welcome. People gave feedback one after another, and attached constructive suggestions to make the content more perfect. In the 1990s, such an inevitable sudden event made the two of them embark on the road of starting a business without hesitation, thus realizing the birth of a giant company named Yahoo.

For all its success, however, Yahoo was only just getting started in the field of search engine technology. In fact, in a strict sense, it is not even a search engine. It uses manpower to classify a large number of well-known websites. The essence of Yahoo is actually just a database website, which is far from what people usually understand.

Alice took a coincidence, because she knew that for a long time, people in Silicon Valley really had no concept of patents.

In the later stage, it was really considered the originator of search engines, but it was actually the little-known Archie—except, of course, people in the industry. It was in 1990 that teachers and students from the School of Computing at McGill University in Canada developed this program.

In this idea, people use FTP to share exchange resources. Archie can regularly collect and analyze the file name information on the FTP server, and provide 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 methods of search engines are the same: automatically collect information resources, build indexes, and provide retrieval services.

However, just as Alice was happy to say, this group of teachers and students has no intention of registering a patent right now. Fortunately, she had time to register the relevant patents earlier, and now it's only February and March, and the technology and the company have been tied together, so there are not too many potential troubles left in the future.

So the question is, what kind of search engine should she provide the Department of Defense?

Baidu?

Google it?

Just kidding, the software is so high-end, the hardware is basically tasteless, isn't it?

Therefore, Alice really just wrote Archie, of course, an enhanced and optimized version. Once the product is provided, her work will stop here. Finding illegal websites will be handled by the NSA. She has other things to do.

For example, having a meal with the Bush couple at the White House or something.

"Thank you very much, Alice."

In the private dining room of the White House, Bush Sr. raised his glass to her: "Without your help, God knows how many detours those people would have taken!"

The members of the Secret Service and the waiters who serve the food will only appear in front of them when they are needed. The elegantly decorated restaurant, rich and delicious food, except for the Bush family and Alice, only the light music played by the record player can serve as the third place. Or, there is such a little sense of existence.

"It's just a civic duty, Mr. President." Alice clinked glasses with him and said, playing tricks and playing tricks: "How about it, do I have the demeanor of the Marine Corps when I say this?"

Everyone laughed. As one of tonight's companions, the very familiar Bush Jr. is of course also present. The future forty-third president of the United States and the most brain-dead president in American history is still in his early forties this year. Hair growth is limited.

"Alice, I recently heard some news about the real estate industry in Manhattan. It seems that you are going to build a Vanda Plaza in Midtown?"

Alice put down the glass, swallowed the orange juice she had just taken, and looked at Bush Jr., "Oh, we're going to talk about this now? You must have visited my first square in London?"

Bush shook his head and said with a smile: "That's not it yet. My father has been busy with the affairs of the Soviet Union recently. Now that Gorbachev has made such a big scandal, we have to lose a lot of hair for him here."

So, what do you mean by talking about this all of a sudden, you idiot? Alice had a smirk on her face, resisting the urge to splash orange juice in his face.

Sure enough, Bush Sr. immediately smoothed things over for his brat: "Haha, Alice's career is really getting better and better, she has been rapidly moving from the computer industry to industrial real estate, and she has also moved the region from the west coast to the east coast. However, Midtown Manhattan is absolutely expensive, if you really want to build Vanda Plaza there, it will cost a lot, right?"

Seeing that the name of such a project was "Vanda Plaza", instead of "Vanda's industry" as the noun unit, Alice knew it well.

Needless to say, how can politicians invite capitalists to family dinners just for routine thanks?

I only heard Bush Sr. continue to say: "At the same time, your contacts with arms dealers have also become closer. Northrop Grumman specializes in the production of warships and radars, and has taken over the construction of Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. The military industry has made a lot of achievements. It is only natural that they can find you to cooperate with. The role that computers will play in the future is really becoming more and more obvious."

Bush Sr. spoke slowly, but Alice thought quickly, so as expected, the next topic began to focus on the military industry. Bush Sr. was chattering, and Alice was thinking about it. The Soviet Union was crumbling. Two Typhoon-class nuclear submarines were stolen. The Iran-Iraq war was over, but the relationship between Iraq and Kuwait became tense again. Considering the most important measures of Bush Sr.'s four years in power, the purpose of this dinner is extremely obvious.

"Modern warfare relies more and more on information superiority, and this all depends on the high development of computer technology. Alice, I heard that you have established a computer research institute in the UK. In the past three or two years, there have been more or less production There are some interesting patents, such as the USB standard at the beginning of the year. So I'm curious, do you intend to seize IBM's supercomputer market?"

……What?

Alice is waiting for Bush Sr. to chat with her about the development of the military industry. Why did the style of painting suddenly change?

Ah no, why did the wind suddenly change?

"supercomputer……"

Alice blinked her eyes twice: "If I can get a more advanced industrial machine tool, I can design it myself, and Intel can indeed immediately produce a cutting-edge CPU. So if you want to kill IBM...it's completely possible...you yes……"

"Oh, don't get me wrong, I didn't expect you to compete with IBM, and that has nothing to do with me, right?" Bush Sr. laughed and said, "Just you need to know, son, the stronger the United States is, the stronger we A strong military force is needed to support this strength. Modern warfare depends heavily on computer performance. If you can provide the Ministry of Defense with a batch of supercomputers with exceptional performance, I believe this will be beneficial to our future development. There are great benefits, right?"

It turned out that such a big circle was made for this kind of thing.

Alice quickly realized that the Gulf War would start in ten months. It is said that the Gulf War changed the war mode since World War II, but that was only as a result of presenting it to the world. The White House and the top military officials must have been establishing a new combat system long ago!