Comments on: Debate: Arabic / English Search

By: Usama Nada

Usama Nada — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:54:17 +0000

is it Taya IT, Onkosh, Arabi, Ayna, Yamli or what ever search engine to be the winner?
Let the market and final users decide.

Actually I am biased to taya it engine, (obviously cause i am part of the search line team at taya it)
Taya IT is working on enhancements, Developments and investing more in the search line.

ISA We will be the winners

By: Qais

Qais — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:14:29 +0000

Just to clarify this (Arabo.com, Ajeeb.com, and 4arabs.com) are not search engines, they are a web directories only.

By: Aziz

Aziz — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:10:42 +0000

Problem is not really with the “Arabic” search engines per say, it’s more the “Arabic” content on the internet, I’ve seen all Arabic search engines trying to tackle the lack of content (which sums up pretty much to forums, blogs, and bootleg DVDs/CDs/MP3s)

I love the way Araby.com tried to “cover” this short by adding Video search and try to include , and love specially what Ayna.com did, adding maps in Arabic (not just interface but actual street level names in Arabic) offers something “new”

as for the Search Engines per say, Araby and Ayna both use Fast ESP platforms/engines, as for tayait.com they are using Exalead which is a real shame, we didn’t see yet a full on Arabic Search Engine with its own personal crawlers.

Araby.com being a $$$ driven company with a huge capital, they have the financial capital to hire/invest/research their truly own search engine/crawler, but again, Ayna.com was officially the first search engine in arabic (not a directory search like most arabic websites “SE”)

features wise, Ayna.com beats the hell out of them, but bug levels and speed, they all beat Ayna.com.

Interesting market, interesting “war”, but it will all go to waste unless we start having “quality” Arabic content and not just forums and blogs with little to no real informative value!

Game on!

By: prege

prege — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:44:02 +0000

nice

By: Amir Boles

Amir Boles — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:48:59 +0000

Frankly i see that tayait.com has a wonderful functionalities and relative results more than onkosh especially as it is better in understanding and dealing with arabic content
one of the features i like most on tayait.com are the refine search, it really narrows our search and this feature is not included in other arabic search engines,even google.
Another one is the great way to merge directory search with text search,for example its possible to search for websites that talks about economy in middle east websites
its interface is better than onkosh for me, being able to see result thumbnails saves a lot of time for me
Tayait.com had a very good advanced search that could narrow your search dramatically with little customization
Really i love it,…

By: Bassem khairy

Bassem khairy — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:04:06 +0000

Actually Onkosh Provides a very smart tool which is used to understand arabic in english alphapeticals and its widley used now in the arabian internet normal usage between people

and boooom You can also serch using this slang smoothly

another issue it facilitates searching in arabic words from other cultures that doesnt speak arabic or even have it on there OS’s the onlything u v to now is to spell it and write it in english.

i totaly love it so much it does saves alot of effort for me

By: Nazmi

Nazmi — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:53:40 +0000

I have been through both and I am actually impressed by the features offered by tayait which is a first in Arabic Search Engines. I wish both a lot of success and we will keep an eye on both.

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:46:29 +0000

Excellent post… Very niche… I love these debates.

By: ahmed

ahmed — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:06:32 +0000

i think Onkosh have several features which not included even in Google or Yahoo.
Onkosh the first one who talk about build Query by directory & bel3arby secction is a greatest one.