“Within the selected date range of “May 22, 1998 to May 22, 2005” on Baidu, there is just one positive result for “Jack Ma” (dated May 22, 2024).”
He Jiayan searched Baidu for Jack Ma between 1998 and 2005 and got one hit. It was a 2021 article. Google and Bing did no better than single digits. His essay on the vanishing Chinese internet went up on WeChat and was a 404 the next day. Hard to blame dead blogs when the censors delete the complaint about them.