Timway

The search engine was first created by its founder Tim Yu in July 1997. As an engineer and a book lover, Yu discovered that a Hong Kong-oriented search engine would be more effective in processing massive data (in both English and Chinese) and allow the user to get the exact information required. Seeing the potential in this area, Yu started a searchable directory in Hong Kong. This initiative started earlier than Yahoo!HK,{{cite web|url=http://hk.yahoo.com/beginner/yhk.html|title=Yahoo! 初學者入門|accessdate=2009-03-24|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123215320/http://hk.yahoo.com/beginner/yhk.html|url-status=dead|archivedate=2009-01-23}} which marked a milestone in the developments of the Hong Kong search portal business.

Milestones:

• Founded in July 1997 by Tim Yu, using a former domain name of hksrch.com.
• Registered as a Hong Kong registered company in February 1998.
• Changed the domain name to timway.com in 1999.[http://timway.com/aboute.htm About Timway]
• Education portal was established in 2000. A wide range of education courses were supplied. The cooperation with tens of education providers made it an education supermarket. Finding education courses became more convenient.[http://edu.timway.com/ Timway Education]
• In 2005, Timway appointed Professor Michael Chau as the senior technology advisor.{{cite web|url=http://www.fbe.hku.hk/~mchau/cv.html|title=Michael Chau Professional Experience|accessdate=2009-03-25|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319041151/http://www.fbe.hku.hk/~mchau/cv.html|url-status=dead|archivedate=2009-03-19}}
• By 2009, Timway was one of the top ten websites in Hong Kong according to web traffic analysis company Alexa, ranked by popularity.
• Timway ran a website called Timway Quiz, which made use of Adobe Coldfusion for enhanced interactivity with the users.{{cite web | title= Adobe 成功案例 | url =http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=casestudydetail&casestudyid=16601&loc=zh_cn |accessdate = 2009-03-25 }}
• Timway contributed to academic studies whereby user information-seeking behavior when using non-English search engines was examined.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100401033901/http://www.fbe.hku.hk/~mchau/papers/CharacterUsage_IPM.pdf Chau, M., Lu, Y., Fang, X., and Yang, C. C., "Characteristics of Character Usage in Chinese Web Searching," Information Processing and Management, 45, 115-130, 2009.]
• Timway began to provide eCommerce solution starting from 2000.
• Timway started to offer digital marketing services to clients starting from 2012, helping matching potential consumers with related businesses through various online channels.
• Timway developed Online Food Ordering Platform in 2015, helping restaurants handle take away orders in shorter time, lower cost and offered great convenience to customers.

• In 2000, Timway began to provide eCommerce solutions.
• In 2012, Timway started to offer digital marketing services to clients which matched potential consumers with related businesses through various online channels.
• In 2015, Timway developed Online Food Ordering Platform, enabling restaurants to handle take-away orders in shorter time, lowered costs and offered convenience to customers.

• List of web directories
• Search engine marketing

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• [http://timway.com Official Website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/19980703224227/http://www.hksrch.com/ Earlier known as hksrch website from 1998]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/19991012062734/http://timway.com/ Earlier known as timway website from 1999]

Category:Hong Kong websites

Category:Web directories

Category:Web portals