[2] It was the first directory in Traditional Chinese and sorted results by popularity and freshness[vague] instead of alphabetical order.
[5] According to web traffic analysis company Alexa, Timway was one of the top ten most popular websites in Hong Kong by 2009.
[citation needed] The search engine was first created by its founder Tim Yu[2] in July 1997.
[3] Seeing the potential in this area, Yu started a searchable directory in Hong Kong.
This initiative started earlier than Yahoo!HK,[7] which marked a milestone in the developments of the Hong Kong search portal business.