Google admits ‘real challenge’ in widening Arab access to internet content
Google has admitted it faces major challenges in widening access to the internet in the Arab World.
Limited infrastructure and language problems in the Middle East hinder access to the best of what the web has to offer, the search engine said in launch post of the Google Arabia blog.
With just one percent of all internet content in Arabic, Middle East audiences still have some way to go before they can enjoy the breadth of content other language communities have access to.
But in a post brimming with confidence, the Google team said it was ‘excited’ about meeting the opportunities available in the region.
It has two growing teams in Cairo and Dubai, the Google Arabia blog reported.
Google also suggested machine translation technologies provided by it and other services had already put Arabic speakers in touch with content formerly out of reach.
The internet was ‘fundamentally’ changing business and social life all over the Middle East, Google said.
Readers were on the whole excited to see Google reaching out in Arabic.
One respondent called Ahmed simply said: ‘Welcome Google’.
Fahad, another commenter, said: ‘How our language is the most beautiful to learn!’
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