Saturday, March 20, 2010

Arabic Web Searching for the Rest of Us

Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him (Arabic Proverb)
source:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arabic_proverbs
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Languages fascinate me, as I’ve mentioned in previous posts. Sad, really, since I have no natural ability in this area of interest. Still, when I run across a Web like Onkosh.com (www.onkosh.com) , I can’t help but share it, even if it does not bear directly on desulfurization technology. This can be a useful site to explore for news that might pertain to developments in the oil business … and that’s no lie.

Description from the Onkosh Web …

Onkosh is the search portal for the Arabic web. Anything in Arabic on the web, we've got it. Anything Arabic-related in English or French on the web, we've got it.

Onkosh.com understands the Arabic language and utilizes advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to ensure that you receive the best results for your search query. We don't just say that, we mean it.

Onkosh Web Search – Search the web for Arabic and Arabic-related sites.
Onkosh Image Search - Search images on the web for Arabic and Arabic-related sites.
Onkosh Blog Search – Everybody's talking blogs in the Arab world these days, and we're listening. View the most popular blog posts and search through thousands of blogs.
Onkosh News Search – A world quality service from Onkosh.com that specializes in aggregating all the recent news from different Arabic sources. Whenever an article is published, within a few minutes it will appear and be searchable on Onkosh. This service offers the unique functionality of grouping the similar articles together along with on-the-fly classification of the articles.
Onkosh Forum Search – Search millions of posts in several Arabic or Arabic-related forums. With this specialized search from Onkosh, the results take you to the exact forum post that is relevant to your search query, not just the URL of the forum page.
Onkosh File Search – Search for music files, mp3s, music videos, applications and other files that users are sharing on Arabic Forums and listed on Arabic music sites. With Onkosh File Search the latest files are always just a click away.
Onkosh Directory – View and search the Arabic Open Directory listing, a categorized and comprehensive listing of Arabic sites on the web.
Onkosh Thanaweya Amma results – Exclusively on Onkosh, View and search Thanaweya Amma results by Name.
Onkosh Sudoku – Play and Practice Sudoku at three different levels
Onkosh Bel-3araby – Search for Arabic using English characters and popular character replacements like "3" for "ع" and "7" for "ح". Give it a try.
We have a very exciting roadmap ahead, so continue to stay tuned for all the great features that Onkosh.com will be adding over the coming period.

Onkosh is an Orascom Telecom product.

source: http://www.onkosh.com/en/about/

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