HKO ranked the most searched government website for 4 consecutive years

14 January 2011

The Hong Kong Observatory won the Yahoo! BUZZ Award 2010 in the category of "government department". This award is presented to the most searched websites by Internet users using Yahoo! Hong Kong's Search engine and this is the fourth consecutive year that the Observatory wins this award.

The Observatory's website has been continuously enhanced to meet the evolving users' needs. It provides not only one-stop webpage specialized for user groups including school, senior citizen, hiker and fisherman etc, but also personalized "MyObservatory" location-based weather service and lightning location service. The website also supports mobile Internet and establishes linkage with major social networking websites including YouTube and Twitter. In the past decade, the website has become very popular with visit figures rose by about 30 times reaching 4.9 millions a day in 2010.

Trophy of Yahoo! BUZZ Award 2010

Visit statistics of Hong Kong Observatory's website