Timway


Timway is a web portal and directory primarily serving Hong Kong. Its Timway Hong Kong Search Engine is designed for searching web sites in Hong Kong. It supports web search query in English and Chinese, and indexes web pages in both languages.
The Timway Hong Kong Search Engine was introduced in 1997 by Tim Yu. It was the first directory in Traditional Chinese. It sorted results by popularity and freshness instead of alphabetical order.
Sina.com.hk used Timway in addition to Google for finding HK webpages. Yahoo also cooperate with Timway for the search engine marketing business. According to web traffic analysis company of Alexa, Timway is of the top ten websites in Hong Kong by 2009, ordered by popularity.
Timway grew, and now also sells webhosting and other services.

History

The search engine was first created by its founder Tim Yu in July 1997. As an engineer and a remarkably book lover, Yu discovered that a Hong Kong-oriented search engine would be way more effective in processing massive data and allow user to get the exact useful information. Seeing the great potential in this area, Yu started a searchable directory in Hong Kong even earlier than Yahoo!HK, which marked a milestone in the developments of HK search portal business.
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