in2ebook Chapter 176 Traffic Pool
Chapter 176 Traffic Pool
One hundred shots complete.
Jiang Bai looked at the pile of items and fell into deep thought.
cash.
Lollipop.
English test paper.
Overalls.
Loafers.
Pearl necklace.
Hairstyling skills.
"Is this supposed to be 'Central Auspicious'?"
"This is a medium-good result for a small account, but for me personally, it's just average!"
"System, are you misunderstanding me? I want to be a tough guy! A tough guy, don't you understand?! Luck should be working in the direction I want it to!"
Jiang Bai, filled with grief and indignation, stuffed all of these things into the system's warehouse.
"I don't feel anything."
"I didn't feel any good luck at all."
"This 'Eye of Fortune' is fake, isn't it? Give me my money back!"
After a long and eventful day, I experienced a rollercoaster of emotions.
Jiang Bai was exhausted. He yawned, feeling that he hadn't pulled out anything that could defy fate, and the so-called "Zhongji" didn't seem to have worked.
He lay down on the bed and covered himself with the blanket.
"Forget it, let's just destroy it. I'm tired."
"Whatever."
"I have to meet with that director Lai Shui tomorrow, and I'm going to audition for the female lead role..."
He muttered to himself, his eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and soon he began to breathe evenly and fell into a deep sleep.
.......
Late night, 23:00.
Penguin Music headquarters building.
This is the heart of a major internet company, and also a battleground for countless bald programmers and operations staff.
In dozens of cubicles, under the pale white incandescent light, are faces that have been tormented by the "007" work system, their faces ashen and as if their yang energy has been drained.
Employee Xiao Zhao, sporting two enormous dark circles under his eyes, held his third espresso of the night, his gaze unfocused, as if his soul had left his body.
"996 is a blessing... 996 is a blessing..."
Xiao Zhao muttered to himself, trying to numb his collapsing nerves with the boss's toxic advice.
"This isn't 996, this is 007!"
I have a big task tonight: to set up intelligent recommendation weights for a batch of new songs that the platform will soon be promoting.
This is commonly known as a traffic pool.
The new songs of top stars are given maximum weight, so users must be able to see them as soon as they open the app.
Second- or third-tier celebrities, or those who have paid for resources, will also have their weight set to A-level, giving them priority in the user's daily recommendations and private browsing list.
"This... Heavenly King Liu's new song 'Love is Poison,' is being promoted at the S-level, with maximum weight..."
"This... Queen Lin's 'Heartbroken I Won't Go Home' has been featured in an S-level update, and is now on the homepage carousel..."
The large signs were set up mechanically.
Next up are those second- and third-tier singers who have paid for their services.
The supervisor specifically instructed: "There's a third-tier singer named Zhang Dali who bought a spot on our platform to randomly play the next song. We need to insert his new song into the algorithm pool for the rock and inspirational categories and increase its weight."
"knew......."
Xiao Zhao yawned, his eyelids drooping, and his vision became blurry.
The screen in front of him was showing double images, and the mouse cursor even appeared to be three separate objects in his eyes.
He mustered his last bit of willpower and opened the backend list.
The mouse clicked on Zhang Dali's song, preparing to pull it into the high-weight recommendation pool.
Just then.
Xiao Zhao's hand inexplicably trembled.
The mouse cursor shifted slightly for a moment.
It missed Zhang Dali's song.
As if by some strange twist of fate, I chose the one right below it, which was also a new song—
"My Future Is Not a Dream" - Jiang Bai
However, just as Xiao Zhao was about to loosen his grip...
His brain suddenly cleared up for a brief moment, and he regained consciousness for 0.1 seconds.
"No...this song title is wrong..."
"What's the name of Zhang Dali's song again? 'The Girl Across the Way'?"
"This song is 'My Future Is Not a Dream'... Oops, I almost lost my performance bonus..."
Xiao Zhao broke out in a cold sweat and quickly moved the mouse down, trying to find the correct Zhang Dali.
but.
That one second of clarity drained all his mana.
An even stronger wave of drowsiness surged in like a tsunami, instantly engulfing him.
His hand went limp, and the mouse continued to slide downwards uncontrollably.
I watched "My Future Is Not a Dream".
He glided past Zhang Dali.
finally.
It stopped at the bottom of the list, on a song with pretty good stats that was rising rapidly—
Jiang Baizhi – “Loving You”.
"despair."
Half-asleep, Xiao Zhao subconsciously pressed the left mouse button, followed by a dragging motion.
[System notification: The song "Love You" has been successfully linked to the "Daily Must-Listen," "You May Also Like," and "S-Level Random Site-wide Recommendation" traffic pools!]
[Target Audience: All users on the entire site, regardless of age or gender, will be actively encouraged to purchase!]
"Done... I'm so sleepy..."
Xiao Zhao mumbled something, then lay completely on the table, emitting soft snores.
.......
It's 1:30 a.m.
It was late at night.
This is a time for lonely souls, and also a hotbed of rampant emo emotions.
A private room in an internet cafe.
A group of teenagers, who had just finished a team battle and were in a trance mode, were wearing headphones and staring blankly at the songs that the platform was automatically playing.
The previous song was a heart-wrenching heavy metal rock track, which just ended.
According to the algorithm, the next song should be a similar high-energy song.
but.
Because of the forced insertion of S-level random recommendations.
"Da da da da da~"
A light, sweet synthesizer intro, filled with pink bubbles, unexpectedly entered the ears of this group of burly men!
The group of teenagers, who usually only listened to rap and electronic music, were taken aback.
"Holy crap? What the hell?"
"Did I select the wrong playlist? How did it suddenly turn into Love Circulation?"
"How did this sissy stuff get into my playlist?"
The fat guy leading the group was about to change the song, cursing under his breath, "What a piece of trash song, it's slowing down my sword-drawing speed..."
however.
My finger just touched the song skip button.
A vibrant, incredibly sweet girl's voice rang out from the headphones:
"Ho Baby, say more sweet nothings~"
"If you miss me, take another look~"
boom!
It was like a sugar-coated bullet that exploded in the internet cafe booth filled with the smells of smoke, sweat, and instant noodles.
The fat man's fingers, which were about to cut the song, froze in mid-air.
The bespectacled man next to me, who was eating instant noodles, had noodles hanging from his mouth and forgot to suck them up; his eyes instantly became glazed over.
sweet!
It's so damn sweet!
It's like a bite of chilled watermelon in summer, or a cup of hot milk tea in winter.
"Perform a little more so I can truly see it."
"Oh Bye, say less about wanting to spend more than just one day with you."
The fat man's finger, which was originally hovering over the "skip song" button, slowly and uncontrollably moved away.
Then, almost by accident, I moved to the [Heart Collection].
They even turned on the "single loop" function.