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Online Stats About the Arab World
Head of Engineering at Google, Ahmad Hamzawi, presented statistics on internet usage in the MENA region at the ArabNET.
- Google searches reached 100 million (4 billion is the global number).
- Youtube video playback reached 100 million (2.5 billion is the global number).
- Youtube videos uploaded per minute is 1 hr (35 hrs per minute globally).
- What are users doing online?
- The most visited website in the MENA is Facebook. Number 2 is Maktoob, Wikipedia follows.
- In Egypt, most searched for word was (games, written in Arabic) then Facebook then (pictures, written in Arabic)
- In KSA, Youtube (spelled in Arabic) was the most searched for and guess what it was in Lebanon ? The word Lebanon !
- The average age of users in MENA region is 25, a young society of users.
- The percentage of search queries coming from mobile devices is 13% and mobile queries have made a 200% growth last year, led by Saudi Arabia.
- iOS grew by over 1500% in 2010 and 50% of all mobile traffic from Symbian devices, and Opera mini Is number 2 browser outside GCC.
- Youtube launched personalized pages in 7 MENA countries and KSA is at the top 3 mobile playbacks in the world (#1 if compared to its population)
- There are 18.4 million Facebook users in the MENA.
- On Arabic content, there are 350 million Arabic speakers in the world which opens up huge opportunities in Arabic content.
- 54% of queries in the MENA are in Arabic, 70 % in Egypt and 80% in KSA
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