Chapter 140 July 10 Embrace Challenges and Pursue Excellence

Embrace challenges and pursue excellence.I think this is what every company is eager to see, and this is especially important for Baidu.Because we have been competing on the world stage with the most powerful and technologically advanced companies in the world, if we do not set high demands on ourselves, we will have no way to obtain our due position in the market. At present, in the field of search engines, the proportion of users whose search requests cannot be satisfied at all is about 18%, and this part is classified as 0 points; the proportion of users who are completely satisfied is about 25%, and this part is called 3 points; are classified as 1 to 2 points.As a search engine engineer, the career I have pursued throughout my life is to improve the 25% of the 3 points to 80% or even higher.If the target height can be reached, its contribution to human history will be unparalleled.Of course, even if it is only increased from 25% to 26%, countless engineers need countless research and technological development to achieve it; even if it is only such a 1%, it will have a huge and direct impact on billions of Internet users.In other words, search is a career that can change human history and is worth pursuing in a lifetime.

Cui Shanshan, senior technical director, relied on this concept at that time, and spent more than two years to successfully recruit a software engineer who is also regarded as an excellent software engineer in the world to Baidu.This engineer is very talented and has been committed to the unprecedented "cutting-edge technology development work", but over the years, the engineer gradually discovered that these things that no one has done actually do not have much influence and are very important. It may be a useless effort that cannot promote human development.In the end, he gave up his important position in a world-renowned company, resolutely joined Baidu, and devoted himself to the cause of changing human history.

Enterprises must have the spirit of pursuing excellence.