Sydney found that the venue for the IMAGENET-2013 competition was not very big. It was already impressive to have seating for one or two hundred people.

Meng Fanqi and Han Ci, as the speakers who needed to go on stage, were arranged to sit in the front row. Tang Huang's name was on the list of participating teams, so he also sat in the front. The rest of the people had to stand in the back because there were too many people.

The organizers did not expect that the number of visitors this time would far exceed expectations. Even if they added several rows of seats, it was still not enough, so those who arrived late could only stand.

Meng Fanqi turned around and saw the other three people standing at the back, waving and smiling at him.

During the past few days when Meng Fanqi was busy negotiating with Google and studying contracts, the four of them had been wandering around the venue of the International Computer Vision Conference.

After all, just the conference tickets cost several hundred dollars, so they couldn't waste them. After going around once, they all had a deep understanding.

It turned out that there were already so many universities, companies, or institutions researching in the field of AI, and the directions and types were so diverse.

And today, these scholars and industry experts were all eager to come and listen, precisely because it was their classmate's technical presentation.

Although it had nothing to do with him in the end, the four of them still felt a sense of joy.

Meng Fanqi glanced over and saw many familiar faces, including Li Feifei, a well-known professor who had already become famous and organized the competition.

There was also Jia Yangqing, who was still studying and participating in the competition, and was currently an unknown future genius.

Everyone was looking forward to today's technical demonstration, wondering what kind of magic could make the classification of millions of images surpass human level.

But now, Meng Fanqi's main focus was no longer on today's presentation.

Just a few months ago, he had put in a lot of effort just to win the championship in this competition and gain the attention of the world. But now that he had signed contracts with two tech giants, he no longer cared about this competition.

Perhaps this was also the reason why Hinton and Alex did not participate in the competition this year. Although they relied heavily on platforms and opportunities like this before becoming famous, after having a real career, such competitions seemed somewhat insignificant.

Only Han Ci by his side was still nervous. After all, there were scholars and professors waiting to hear her thoughts in the room.

Meng Fanqi's outstanding performance made the results and algorithms of the other teams in this competition not worth mentioning, and no one cared anymore.

This made the other participants who had worked hard for several months somewhat frustrated.

But compared to the anticipation and curiosity about the new algorithms, this little bit of emotion was nothing.

Perhaps they also understood that after Meng Fanqi introduced his algorithm, no one would be interested in the presentations of the other teams.

The organizers deliberately put his presentation at the end.

Otherwise, if he went up first and after he finished, half of the people in the room left, or if he was grabbed by others to discuss during the subsequent presentations, it would be embarrassing.

The content of the presentations on stage was nothing more than reproducing Alex's algorithm from last year with a few minor modifications.

They forcefully piled up various modified models, without many new ideas.

Meng Fanqi glanced at Alex himself and thought to himself, now even Alex has to consult me on network structure design.

Such content was truly useless to listen to, so Meng Fanqi stopped paying attention to the presentations of these teams and instead looked at Google's financial report on the computer.

In order to draw the most money from Google, he had to have a very good understanding of Google's advertising revenue structure and specific situation. Where does its money come from, what are the proportions, and what can he do.

Although he had some understanding of Google's classic recommendation and advertising algorithms, Meng Fanqi had never personally read Google's financial report and had a very general understanding of Google's revenue structure.

He only knew that search and advertising revenue accounted for 80% of Google's total revenue.

Based on the past few years' financial reports, Google was undoubtedly the world's number one in advertising.

It accounted for about 30% of all advertising revenue worldwide.

As a comparison, Meng Fanqi roughly knew that around 2020, the advertising market share of the entire Ali series was about 8-9%.

In other words, one Google could basically surpass four Ali series in terms of advertising market share.

And among all of Google's search and advertising revenue, search accounted for an absolute majority, about 70%.

In fact, Google also did bidding ranking, just like Baidu.

But Google's approach was more diverse and more concealed. Advertisers could choose different bidding strategies.

Google allowed and had the technical ability to deliver advertisements and search results with considerable precision.

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Specific to your geographical location, commonly used language, personal interests, and so on.

Therefore, its advertisements were much more concealed than Baidu's, not so forcefully pushed to you, although in essence, there was not much difference.

"So, my top priority is to optimize the search recommendation algorithm, and then the advertising delivery strategy."

As for YouTube videos, they only accounted for one-tenth of the total advertising revenue. Meng Fanqi frowned when he saw this.

All advertisers loved videos the most. As the world's largest video website, the revenue from advertising on YouTube was much lower than in the search aspect.

"It seems that I underestimated the power of textual information." Meng Fanqi carefully thought about it. At this stage, Google lacked the ability to identify information in videos.

Therefore, it was far less accurate in grasping the preferences of video users compared to web users.

"I need to focus on this direction." Search was Google's ace revenue direction, and his earnings were based on the additional improved revenue.

Although search revenue accounted for seven times the proportion of videos in Google, this part had nothing to do with his share. He could only take a share of the additional optimized revenue.

Meng Fanqi believed that there might not be less space in video advertising than in search, and it was also his expertise in the visual field. On the contrary, pure advertising could be placed at the end.He was engrossed in his research, and before he knew it, it was his turn to present on stage.

Those who were unaware of the situation thought that the miraculous Meng was still actively studying even when he was at the venue, constantly looking down at his computer and delving into technology. No wonder he could produce such impressive results.

Only Jeff, who was sitting next to him, could see clearly. This guy was actually researching which technology could make him the most money.

Choosing technology based on financial reports, this was the first time he had ever seen such a thing.

"Alright, I think everyone can't wait any longer. We all know who the real reason for the crowd today is!" After the last team stepped down, the host came up with a smile and said, "Let's welcome the rising star in the field of vision, Meng! He will explain his huge breakthrough in the field of image recognition!"