Posts Tagged ‘Maktoob’

Arabnet Day 1…Draft

And it starts…the event that everybody was waiting for Arabnet! To sum it all up the focus was today on startups in every single panel, the goodiness is all for tomorrow.

How it all went;
The usual Lebanese National anthem, officials introducing and launching the event, some guy telling us about his personal life and how he talked with Bill Gates (*yawn*) and the last speaker was… Continue reading

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