Double confirmation that arabia.com is the Arab world’s leading site

Arabian Business.com Web Index* and Alexa Research both place arabia.com in top spot

arabia.com also releases information on the Arab world surfers

(Dubai, UAE – May 3^rd 2001)

  Two leading research companies placed arabia.com as the undisputed No.1 destination for Arab Internet users. In two independent surveys conducted separately, the US-based Alexa Research and the Dubai-based Arabian Business.com magazine show arabia.com as the top Arab portal.

 The Alexa results also demonstrate the supremacy of arabia.com in page views estimated to reach over 22 million during the same month. This latest Internet survey conducted by such a highly reputed company gives an added recognition to the value of services arabia.com has been providing. 

“Our leadership in Arab websites ranking is maintained simply because we continuously keep developing and upgrading our existing services and introduce new ideas,” said Ramzi Zeine, CEO of arabia.com. “ Internationally-recognized methods of surveys to measure websites ranking mainly depend on the audience reach defined as unique users.”

Amongst the new services and channels introduced by arabia.com during the first quarter of 2001 is ‘Mersal’, the first fully bilingual instant messenger to provide unique features in the region such as the interoperability with Yahoo and ICQ messengers. And new upgraded version of the Wanees media player, which enables users to play most available audio and video formats, and also a careers channel powered by Bayt.com.

2/. Double confirmation that arabia.com is the Arab world’s leading site

Richard Evans, Chief Operating Officer at arabia.com said “These rankings match what we know from our own research. arabia.com today released a profile of the average MENA user. It shows that the average surfer is a late night owl surfing from home, visits a narrow repertoire of sites, typically less than 6 sites. Loyalty,” he adds” is very high in the portal industry, maintaining an excellent level of service and constantly introducing new services are therefore key to maintaining leadership in the region. And that’s what arabia.com is doing and committed to do in the future. 

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Issued on behalf of arabia.com by Gulf Hill & Knowlton. For further information, please contact Osama A. Osman at Tel: (9714) 3344930, Fax: (9714) 3344923 or email: oaosman@hillandknowlton.co.ae