Cari Internet Sdn. Bhd. is 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. 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. The word cari (IPA: /tʃari/) means "search" in the Malay language. Cari was founded by Liew Chew-Keat (Chinese: 柳树吉). It was unique for its early provision of trilingual services: English, Malay, and Chinese. 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. More information...
According to PR-model, cari.com.my is ranked 57,038th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 5,133rd in Chinese Wikipedia.
The website is placed before mm-agency.com and after city.kitaakita.akita.jp in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
