Timway

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Timway
URL	http://timway.com/
Commercial?	Mixed
Type of site	Web portal
Registration	Optional
Owner	Timway
Launched	1997 July

Timway grew up so as to help finding HK websites more easily. Websites are organized into a hierarchical scheme. Similar topic of the web sites are grouped into categories, which can then include sub-categories. A range of Internet services are also provided including web portal, forum, news and education courses. ^[1]

It is one of the major HK web guide or web portal. ^[2] ^[3] ^[4]

Besides, Sina HK use Timway in addition to google for finding HK webpages. ^[5]

1 History and growth
2 Products and serivces
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History and growth

[edit] Birth

The former domain name of Timway was hksrch.com. It was created in July 1997 and then formed a Hong Kong registered company in February 1998. The domain name of timway.com was used instead in 1999. ^[6]

[edit] Dot-com bubble (2000-2001)

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. ^[7] ^[8]