Using highly advanced web navigation tools, Alexa.com carried out a comprehensive independent survey amongst its users to find out the most popular 100,000 international websites. Alexa.com, which provides its users with a highly intelligent Internet navigation system, measured the visits to websites by millions of its registrants from all over the world. The results were then compiled and analysed to compare performance of the various web services.
In total worldwide rankings, Maktoob.com was placed at 485th position, well ahead of its closest Arab competitor, amrkhaled.net, which stood at 583rd position, and aljazeera.net at 621st position. Internationally, however, yahoo.com and msn.com commanded the first and second positions respectively.
Top 10 Arabic websites by global ranking
Maktoob.com - 485
Amrkhaled.net - 583
Aljazeera.net - 621
islamonline.net - 1,468
Ahram.org.eg - 1,535
6arab.com - 1,998
Masrawy.com - 2,316
Jeeran.com - 2,670
Google.ae - 3,467
6rb.com - 3,251
Explaining that the new rankings emphasized Maktoob.com's hard-earned leading stature in the Arab world's fast-developing Internet industry, Samih Toukan, CEO, Maktoob.com said: "Naturally, we are excited about Alexa's new findings, which speak a great deal about our own success to further develop the Internet culture in the region. Three years ago, Maktoob.com stood at the 2836th position and our current standing at 485th place is a monumental achievement. This leap forward encourages us to do more to build this region as a global Internet superpower."
According to the Alexa.com results, the top 10 Arabic websites were found to be Maktoob.com (485th position), amrkhaled.net (583), Aljazeera.net (621), islamonline.net (1468), ahram.org.eg (1535), 6arab.com (1998), masrawy.com (2316), jeeran.com (2670), google.ae (3467), 6rb.com (3251).
With an overwhelming 3.6 million registered users, Maktoob.com has grown in stature in less than five years as the leading online community for Arabs worldwide. Incorporating some of the highly advanced communications solutions currently available in the world, Maktoob.com has built a formidable reputation as the most popular Arabic / English bilingual web-based email solution in the Arab world.
Recently, it launched the 1000 MB mailbox storage facility that also allows users to send and receive email attachments of over 50 MB capacity, becoming one of the very few email service providers in the world to do so.
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Maktoob.com ranked as most popular Arabic online destination
- United Arab Emirates: Monday, August 23 - 2004 at 16:17
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Further underlining its position as the most popular online Arabic destination, Maktoob.com has topped the ranks of highly visited Arabic websites following a report published by Alexa.com, the much respected subsidiary of Amazon.com that specialises in Internet rankings.
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About Maktoob.comMaktoob.com (www.maktoob.com) has become a landmark development for the Arab world, emphasising the region's growing importance as a major international IT player. Since its launch five years ago, Maktoob.com has played a crucial role in uniting Arabs worldwide by providing sophisticated and reliable web-based communications and community tools, including the Arab world's first free bilingual (Arabic / English) web-based email service.
Maktoob.com is the first Arabic / English web-based email solutions provider and leading virtual community for Arabs around the world. Launched in October 1998, Maktoob.com gained instant success among Arabs around the world. It currently boasts of a membership base of more than 3.6 million registered users worldwide. Besides the free email service, the company offers a range of interactive web-based facilities including mobile services, news and content, email, chat, auction, electronic cards and many other community, communication and commerce tools.
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Posted by Anne-Birte Stensgaard, Senior News EditorMonday, August 23 - 2004 at 16:17 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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