No body on this planet (I hope) doesn’t know PACMAN!
Tomorrow, May 22nd, Pacman will be 30 years old. And this time Google is paying homage to Pacman with a doodle with a twist! Playable doodle! (and NOT in flash +1)
Over 200 levels to play with! (It’s being reported that the game will stay for 48 hours, so hurry up!)
Some of us out there are experiencing the new search layout/ui of Google.
What is really interesting about it is that it changes according to your query (duh!) making the whole “experience” smoother and better depending on what you are searching for.
In a more simple way:
1st query: Lebanon. You get “everything” along with the ability to filter, images, videos, news, blogs and maps. which makes… Continue reading
Click on image for full view. Routing and graphics are for illustration purposes only.
Enjoy.
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
In my previous post I was wondering (nagging?) about the fact that no links to the maps are apparent on the main page etc etc…I hit a few local Google pages (middle east) to check if it’s a Google Lebanon thing, I noticed something else…
They all have the exact same menu. Nothing is different except a few languages (which is a nice touch… Continue reading
After a long wait we finally have routing/directions on Google maps for Lebanon.
I was like a kid enjoying an underskirt view for the first time! but what struck me was that there are no links/mentions (still) to the maps on Google’s Lebanon page! nothing! zip! nada!
I thought it would be in the “more”… Continue reading
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