Timway
Encyclopedia
Timway is a web portal
and directory
primarily serving Hong Kong
. It is designed for searching web sites in Hong Kong
. The web sites in each category are sorted according to their popularity and freshness instead of alphabetical order. Timway supports web search query
in English and Chinese, and indexes web pages in both languages.
It was founded by Tim Yu. Its primary business is the sale of advertising on the Timway.com search portal. It cooperates with Yahoo for the search engine marketing
business. Also, a range of Internet services are also provided including discussion forum, news and education courses.
for finding HK webpages.
To increase more revenue, Education portal was established in the year of 2000. A wide range of education courses are supplied. The cooperation with tens of education providers makes it an education supermarket, thus finding education courses becomes convenient.
Timway ran a website called Timway Quiz before. It made use of the technology of Coldfusion
for enhanced interactivity with the users.
Few academic studies examined user information seeking behavior when using non-English search engine and Timway is one of the few contributed to this.
Starting in 2005, Timway appointed Professor Michael Chau as the senior technology advisor.
According to web traffic analysis company of Alexa
, Timway is of the top ten websites in Hong Kong
, ordered by popularity.
Web portal
A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way....
and directory
Web directory
A web directory or link directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links....
primarily serving Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
. It is designed for searching web sites in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
. The web sites in each category are sorted according to their popularity and freshness instead of alphabetical order. Timway supports web search query
Web search query
A web search query is a query that a user enters into web search engine to satisfy his or her information needs. Web search queries are distinctive in that they are unstructured and often ambiguous; they vary greatly from standard query languages which are governed by strict syntax rules.- Types...
in English and Chinese, and indexes web pages in both languages.
It was founded by Tim Yu. Its primary business is the sale of advertising on the Timway.com search portal. It cooperates with Yahoo for the search engine marketing
Search engine marketing
Search engine marketing, , is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages through the use of paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion...
business. Also, a range of Internet services are also provided including discussion forum, news and education courses.
History
The former domain name of Timway was hksrch.com. It was created in July 1997. The creation of it was because Tim Yu like reading very much and he found that making a web site for easier information retrieval would help a lot for getting useful information. A Hong Kong registered company was registered in February 1998. It started its searchable directory in Hong Kong earlier than Yahoo Hong Kong which marked a milestone in the developments of HK search portal business. The domain name of timway.com was used instead in 1999. Sina.com.hk also used Timway in addition to GoogleGoogle
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
for finding HK webpages.
To increase more revenue, Education portal was established in the year of 2000. A wide range of education courses are supplied. The cooperation with tens of education providers makes it an education supermarket, thus finding education courses becomes convenient.
Timway ran a website called Timway Quiz before. It made use of the technology of Coldfusion
ColdFusion
In computing, ColdFusion is the name of a commercial rapid application development platform invented by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in 1995. ColdFusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database, by version 2 it had...
for enhanced interactivity with the users.
Few academic studies examined user information seeking behavior when using non-English search engine and Timway is one of the few contributed to this.
Starting in 2005, Timway appointed Professor Michael Chau as the senior technology advisor.
According to web traffic analysis company of Alexa
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic...
, Timway is of the top ten websites in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, ordered by popularity.
External links and sources
- Timway
- Timway Education
- Earliest known hksrch website from 1998
- Earliest known timway website from 1999
- timway.com at Alexa.comAlexa InternetAlexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic...
- timway.com at QuantcastQuantcastQuantcast is a California based company that provides publishers and marketers with the ability to understand, deliver and reach their best audiences at a massive scale...