Compare this to Spanish (807 percent), Chinese (1,479 percent) or Arabic (a massive increase of more than 2,500 percent). For a long time now English has served as the lingua franca, or common language, of the Internet.
The number of Arabic users, for example, has grown by a massive 2,501 percent since 2000, compared with just 301 percent for English language users. Inbound marketing involves getting potential customers to come to you.
The growth in online use of languages such as Chinese and Arabic far outstrips that of English. English remains the single most widely used language online. But it still only accounts for around a quarter of total usage, and this proportion is...
Hebrew, Arabic, and Russian). Beyond the much-discussed "fresh" update, Google discussed recent changes in SERP titles and descriptions, date-specified searches, image search signals, and more. While Matt Cutts called this "An experiment in radical...
Arabic by 2,501 percent. The English language Internet is a crowded place these days – online consensus puts the total percentage of online content that’s in English between 50 and 80 percent. Competition for keywords and domain names is at an all...
Additionally, Bing will power Yahoo Maktoob in “several” Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Last month, Search Engine Watch reported the merger of Microsoft Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer.
Arabic has grown by 2501.2 percent As this column goes live, I’ll be in (hopefully) sunny San Francisco delivering a presentation as part of the Getting Ready for Global Business session at the 2011 SES San Francisco conference.
For international search engine marketers, one key benefit to Google+ is the fact that it supports 42 different languages, from Arabic to Vietnamese. If you’ve been active on social media in the past few weeks – or have been reading Search Engine...
Sayed Darwish (Arabic: سيد درويش; March 17, 1892 - September 15, 1923) was an Egyptian singer and composer who was considered the father of Egyptian popular music. While Google employees have had a hand in the overthrow of the despotic Egyptian...
The Facebook page was initially being administered anonymously by ElShaheed - martyr in Arabic - but when executive Wael Ghomin was arrested without anyone knowing, it was learned that a group of people, including Ghomin, were running the page.
It only comes in a poor third after Arabic. Only 19 percent of Arabic speakers are connected, but the rate of growth over the last decade is 2,500 percent, beating Russian at 1,825 percent into second place and Chinese after that with a 1,300...
If you wondered what languages are on this list they are Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian...
Streaming live coverage of Al Jazeera's broadcasts about the unfolding events, on both their Arabic and English YouTube channels. YouTube has been flooded with videos from the Egyptian protests and is now collecting them at CitizenTube - Google's...
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's son who is considered as his successor has fled to Britain along with his family", US-based Arabic website Akhbar al-Arab reported. In the wake of the Tunisian overthrow of their dictatorial regime, tens of...
From 2000-2010, the number of Arabic speakers online increased by 2,500 percent, and Chinese rose 12-fold. If you could turn back the Internet clock 15 years, armed with the information you have in 2010, how would you use this knowledge to get...
An IDN stands for Internationalized Domain Name and is a new structure that allows you have language-specific script, like the Arabic, Chinese, Russian alphabets. Which should you choose? There are several options outside of having a .com, .net...
The duplicate content rule doesn't apply across different languages, which means you can write one guest post or article in English, and then have it translated (or rather, "transcreated," the term for translating on-brand creative marketing...
What this means is that users in those countries will have a choice of entering the Arabic or Latin characters when entering the last part of a domain name. ICANN explained that "Arabic is among the most highly used languages on the Internet today.
Arabic Trying to type a non-Roman language such as Hindi or Russian on a Roman keyboard is not easy. That's because such languages use characters not found on a traditional keyboard. However, those languages can be spelled phonetically and then...
This is not yet available for Hebrew, Arabic, or Persian. Google has cleaned up Translate with a new look, and threw in a few new features for good measure: Translate as you type - The only problem with this is that any translator will tell you...
