Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Zaad is a local Palestinian directory search engine that serves up search results from specialized databases, currently covering the Palestinian private sector and NGO sector databases. Zaad enables users to enter information about their company or association directly to the site’s database, and update it as frequently as they need to. Details submitted to the search [...]
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Towards the end of 2007, Arabic search engine “Araby” bought popular Arab website directory “Eyoon” in order to integrate it as a service of Araby; Araby Directory was officially launched in early 2008. The goal behind Araby Directory is to add the number of useful services for Araby users, as well as grow the user [...]
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Places.ae, the Dubai location based directory, previously reviewed here, have taken their service one step further, officially launching the mobile version of their service at http://m.places.ae The mobile version has been under development and test for a while now, and now that BlackBerry support has been integrated into it, it has been launched officially. This [...]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Resto Tunisie, is a Tunisian website that aims to become a comprehensive directory of restaurants in Tunisia, aiding people to make their decisions on which eatery to pick. The site’s users as well as restaurant owners get to suggest restaurants for addition, by filling out a contact form, specifying the address of the restaurant and [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Places.ae, the cool Dubai location based directory, previously reviewed here, have released a new interesting feature called “Places Answering Machine (PAM)”, which acts as an interface for Places.ae with other communication channels on the internet, thereby enabling users to ask Places.ae for places directly through these channels without having to visit the website. They’ve currently [...]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Places.ae is one of those simple, small, but very useful services that we really wish we had more of all around the Arab world. In short, and using their own words which I think say it best, places.ae is a location based directory for Dubai. Integrating Google Maps, the website helps you find, positioned on [...]
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