a malaysian company founded in 1996 . it operates the eponymous website cari.com.my the country s first search engine and web portal along with online florist flowers.com.my and web hosting service onnet . 1 2 cari forum a multilingual internet forum is a particularly popular portion of its website and has been reported to be malaysia s largest internet forum . 3 the word cari ipa t ari means search in the malay language . contents 1 business development 2 legal disputes 3 traffic and rankings 4 references 5 external links business development edit cari was founded by liew chew keat . 4 it was unique for its early provision of trilingual services english malay and chinese . 2 after its founding cari grew to become one of the country s top ten web portals while maintaining tight control over costs . it received rm2 .5 million us 657 808 in venture capital funding from akn.com in 2000 in exchange for a 15 % stake which was later transferred to swansoft technologies . the bursting of the dot com bubble actually aided cari s cash flow allowing it to cut advertising spending from rm450 000 in 2000 to just rm50 000 in 2001 . however it was still not profitable in 2001 . 5 in 2003 cari internet announced the rollout of its in house developed electronic commerce platform which partnered with local payment system commerce payment sdn . bhd. 2 in 2008 it announced a partnership with local restaurant search startup foodstreet founded by local technologist and foodie aidan lee . 6 legal disputes edit in 2000 cari internet had a legal dispute with catcha.com and considered suing the latter for copyright infringement . 1 in 2008 cari internet was taken to court over postings made in its forum which allegedly defamed a manager of the malaysian chinese newspaper kwong wah yit poh . 7 cari had refused to answer three letters from the manager alleging defamation and demanding that cari disclose the identities of the posters who made the comments . the high court at george town ordered cari to disclose the requested information and pay court costs for the complainant . 8 traffic and rankings edit according to effective measure october 2010 rankings cari.com.my was the 19th most popular website among malaysia s 17 million internet users . 9 alexa internet s rankings placed it slightly higher at 16 . 10 their forums attracted roughly five million unique visitors each month as of 2009 update 70 % on the chinese language version . 4 references edit a b lee wendy 2000 05 24 cari.com to legally take on catcha.com zdnet retrieved 2011 07 08 a b c chooi yew tzen 2003 03 13 cari to offer e commerce solution new straits times retrieved 2011 07 08 internet users complain of poor public safety wen wei po 2006 11 27 retrieved 2011 07 08 a b cari that night cari moderators set a record again techdaily 2009 11 23 retrieved 2011 07 09 sreejit pillai 2001 11 13 m sia oldest search engine upbeat in trying times zdnet retrieved 2011 07 08 yeoh oon 2008 06 12 food glorious local food the star retrieved 2011 07 08 neoh scandal cari must disclose internet user s information sin chew daily 2008 11 06 retrieved 2011 07 08 k. kasturi dewi 2008 11 07 court orders website to reveal identities the star retrieved 2011 07 08 malaysian website rankings for october 2010 malaysiakini 2010 11 16 retrieved 2011 07 08 top sites in malaysia alexa internet retrieved 2011 07 08 external links edit official website onnet hosting malaysia retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cari internet & oldid 740258469 categories internet companies of malaysiatelecommunications companies established in 19961996 establishments in malaysiahidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from 2009all articles containing potentially dated statementsofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 20 september 2016 at 00 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view