As A U.S companies Google has been in compliance with US export controls and sanctions programs against countries that does not follow the US policy.
In Syria all google software and google code was blocked in the country due to those US government sanctions programs.
We at ArabCrunch wrote about how these sanctions affect the average i...
Google has celebrated today's Egyptian presidential election with a doodle at google.com.eg the doodle features each letter of Google participating in the election by standing in line then writing the name they will vote for and then submitting the vote.
Also google has launched a news site that enables users to follow election's news in gener...
Tehran has said it will sue Google over dropping the name of the Persian Gulf on Google Maps. If Google does not restore the name of the Persian Gulf, it will face "serious damages," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said, as cited by AP. The famous search engine earlier left the body of water between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula...
In Blog post announcing that google has added Jerusalem old city to Google maps street view Google has recognized Jerusalem as an Israeli city the post reads “
Every year, 3.5 million people come to Israel to visit ancient sites that are holy to billions of people, to walk among the unique stone of Jerusalem, or to relax on the beaches of t...
Google's YouTube has launched a UAE domain name ...
Dubai, UAE (February 24, 2012). On his 707th birthday, Google celebrates the famous Moroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta’s by featuring a doodle on its homepage.
Showing across the Arab world on February 25th, the Doodle pays tribute to one of the greatest travellers of all time through various scenes from his adventures across Africa, Europe,...
As 2011 is about to end, history was rewritten in 3 Arabs countries and counting. Bu Azizi started something that can not be stopped.
But what where the top search terms coming for Egypt and Saudi Arabia? Google released today it is annual Zeitgiest a look into the year's top google searches. We would like to note that Facebook and Twitter a...
Google has launched recently a website dedicated to Egyptian parliamentary election that starts today.
The site http://google.com.eg provide a number of services, news about the election aggregated from the web and that can be filtered according to any egyptian political party or issue.
It also has a section which provides a google map mash...
Google has launched recently gmail SMS chat in many Arab and some African and Asian countries with a number of mobile operators.
SMS with Gmail enables users to send free text messages (SMS) to their friends directly from their Gmail accounts.
if the user's contact replies, the text message response will appear as a reply in C...
Nearly 2.5 million Muslims begin the annual Islamic ritual of the Hajj today, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Hajj represents one of the five pillars of Islam; it requires all Muslims around the world who are able-bodied and can afford it to perform the pilgrimage once in their lifetime.
YouTube has partnered with Saudi Ministry of Culture and Infor...
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