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The traffic explosion on the first day came down to the success of suspense marketing. The data trend over the two days of the weekend was the touchstone that would test the product's true quality.
Even after the initial novelty of rushing to register free email accounts had passed, netizens' enthusiasm for visiting still had not waned.
On Saturday and Sunday, go.com's single-day click volume still held steady above one hundred million.
Frank crushed the empty paper cup in his hand and threw it into the trash can.
"Call over the head of the Public Relations Department," Frank instructed.
Ten minutes later, the PR director walked into the operations center with a notebook.
"Find a professional photographer and bring the best equipment." Frank pointed at the monitoring screen behind him, which displayed real-time click volume and concurrent user data. "Photograph this data. No retouching. I want the originals."
The PR director understood at once and wrote down the requirements.
"Contact the technology editor at the Los Angeles Times," Frank continued assigning tasks. "Send them the photo. Tell them this is internal operations data provided exclusively to them by Silicon Valley Online. On tomorrow's front page, I want to see this photo."
Early Sunday morning.
The Los Angeles Times, smelling of fresh ink, was delivered to the doors of hundreds of thousands of subscribers across America.
The technology section's headline had no fancy accompanying image, only a slightly dim photograph.
In the photo, a long string of red numbers flickered on the huge electronic screen, with rows of server cabinets in Silicon Valley Online's operations center in the background.
The report's headline was direct and brutal: The New Internet Overlord Behind One Hundred Million Clicks.
This backstage data photo,