Thinking of this, Robin Li was very excited. He found his boss and said to him: "We should make a search engine." The boss was very happy and said: "Very good." But the boss did not really realize that Robin Li importance of the invention, "or in his position, felt no need to do it." At that time, Robin Li's company had been acquired by Dow Jones, and everyone was busy building the Wall Street Journal website. Robin Li was the designer of the real-time financial information system for the online version of the Wall Street Journal. In the view of Dow Jones, "The most valuable assets of this company are editors and reporters. Although the company pays relatively high wages to software and technical engineers, the software and technical personnel are not important."
There is nothing on the boss's side. There was movement, and Robin Li was very anxious. "If you keep putting it off, others may think of it." Robin Li bought a book on how to apply for a patent, spent two months writing the idea into a patent, and submitted the patent application.
After submitting the application, Robin Li felt that he should tell his boss. The boss became anxious upon hearing this. "This is your service invention, and the company should apply for this patent." In February 1997, Dow Jones applied for a patent for "a hypertext relevance ranking method and system." "The essence of it is hyperlink analysis."
It is impossible for Dow Jones to provide enough resources for Robin Li to be a search engine. Robin Li uses a server to index hyperlinks on the Internet, and then uses ranklink. com to run a DEMO demonstration. "At that time, a magazine reporter interviewed me and published my first article on hyperlink analysis." Rankdex established a project in the company and assigned Robin Li a sales position to sell hyperlink analysis technology.