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Chinese Internet is accelerating the collapse
Original Hejiaoyan Hejiaoyan 2024-05-22 07:42 Guangdong

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Let me ask you a small question:

If we search on Baidu "Ma Yun" two words, set the time in 1998 to 2005, can search out the information, about how many? Is it 100 million, or 10 million, or 1 million?

I have asked in several groups and the general guess is that it should be at the level of millions or tens of millions. After all, the Internet information is so vast. Jack Ma, as the stormy entrepreneur of that era, must have left a lot of traces on the Internet.

But the full results that can actually be searched are as follows:

With Baidu search, selected date range for "May 22, 1998 to May 22, 2005", containing information on Ma Yun, a total of 1 (May 22, 2024 data).

The only information is also false. Clicking on it reveals that the article was actually published in 2021, which is not part of the time period limited above, it's just that somehow it was inexplicably searched for.

In other words, if we want to know about Jack Ma's experiences, reports, people's discussions about him, his speeches, the company's history, and so on during that period of time, the amount of valid raw information we can get, is zero.

You may think, is this a problem with Baidu? If you change Bing or Google, will you be able to search it?

I tested, these two sites search out valid information, and Baidu is not much different than Baidu, slightly more than Baidu, but only single-digit. More are also time disordered invalid information, only do not know what technical reasons, was wrongly crawled out.

You might also wonder if it's because Jack Ma is one of the more controversial people out there, and for some indescribable reason his information is unsearchable?

But in fact, not only the case of Jack Ma, we go to search Ma Huateng, Lei Jun, Ren Zhengfei, and so on, and even Luo Yonghao and Sister Fu Rong, such as at that time the red hot netizens, or Jay Chou, Li Yuchun, such as the stars of the past fire all over the network, the results are the same. Such as the case of searching Lei Jun, the results are like this:

After testing different websites, different people's names, and different time periods, I found a shocking phenomenon:

Almost all in that era had a red-hot Chinese sites, such as NetEase, Sohu, campus BBS, Xizihutong, Kaidi cat eye, Tianya Forum, school network (RenRen), Sina blogs, Baidu posting, as well as a large number of personal Web sites, etc., in a certain number of years before the information has completely disappeared, and even most of the site is all the years of the information has disappeared. The only exception is Sina.com, where you can still find some information from more than ten years ago, but only a very few, and more than 99.9999% of the other content, all disappeared.

We don't realize a serious problem: the Chinese Internet is rapidly collapsing, and the Chinese Internet content before the emergence of mobile Internet has almost disappeared.

We originally thought that the Internet has a memory, but we didn't realize that this memory, it turned out to be a memory like a goldfish.