Timway

Article summary

TiMway ( ) is a web portal and directory primarily serving Hong Kong. The 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 and sorted results by popularity and freshness instead of alphabetical order. Sina.com.hk used Timway in addition to Google for finding Hong Kong webpages. Yahoo also cooperated with Timway for the search engine marketing business. According to web traffic analysis company Alexa, Timway was one of the top ten most popular websites in Hong Kong by 2009. Timway now also sells web hosting and other services.

Key claims

1. date of establishment: 2000 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of foundation: 1997 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the date of establishment is "2000". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the date of foundation is "1997". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376109252