We learned the advertising model. It seems to have worked. The company reports traffic has grown 12-fold in the last year alone, and the number of servers has jumped from one in 1998 to 60 as of last month. Internet Technologies China has filed paperwork to do an initial public offering within the next year that would be listed on Nasdaq. If there's one thing that could stand in the way of success, it's China's skittish communist government that still doesn't know what to make of the Internet.
China restricts encryption products and has restricted access to overseas news sites.
But Zhang downplays the issue and said his company is simply cautious about what content it places online. All the employees have a sense of what it means to be politically correct. What is considered to be politically correct now would have been considered anti-government five years ago. Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved.