I wonder why Google released a virtual keyboard for Arabic and didn’t go with the transliteration service that they already have (Google Ta3reeb) Hoping we get to know why. A business issue or an UX one? note that Google has a pseudo transliteration service that works with SOME words when using an arabic interface ( i.e. type “Loubnan” and wait, then try a different… Continue reading
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Arabic Search Engine Comparison
Well, as I predicted a few months back when Yahoo bought Maktoob, Yahoo started creeping in the Arabic search engine market (doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out), unfortunately though, my question on LinkedIn was deleted from the group Arabic Search Engine Marketing for some weird reason.
Anyways, I ran a few tests on several search engines, Araby, Ayna, Bing, Google, Yahoo/Maktoob. I came to… Continue reading
Arabic search engines…a review…Part Trois
In my final post (till I can be bothered again) about search engines, Yamli is our star of this post.
I don’t really consider Yamli as being a search engine (calm down) it is a transliteration service, making it easy for users who do not type in Arabic or have an Arabic enabled keyboard to search using GOOGLE.
It is what Google (and ALL Arabic search engines) missed!… Continue reading