Facebook is going away from its traditional zero cost marketing efforts to boost membership to its social network and counter its upcoming rival Google+. Historically Facebook relayed on viral marketing to push current members to invite their friends.
But recently several Facebook ads has been popping in the Arab world at Google's AdWords on ...


Update: Google spokesman said "Yes, filtering is up to 11 categories (limit of 5 doesn't apply anymore)."
AdSense is the advertising platform from Google that any website publisher can use to monitaize part of his traffic via ads coming from Google's self service online ad solution for advertisers: adwords.
However, publishers did n...
UPDATE: More details of the deal at the end of the post.
WebProNews reports that Google and the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology have signed a $10 million contract regarding business and workforce development in Egypt. According to the site the deal was signed in Washington D.C during the Egyptian Minister of...
UPDATE: Google removed the ads on .jo .ae .com.sa
UPDATE 2 and 3: see end of the post.
UPDATE 4: response from Google.
It came to my attention today that when you search for Yamli on google.jo .ae or com.sa you get ads for google’s own Arabic transliteration editor called Ta3reeb (Arabization) that competes with Yamli.
To my understan...
In an answer to my question whether Google will add demographic targeting to Google Adwords, Elias Darwish Google's Account Manager MENA ( Middle East and North Africa) region, said that there are no current plans, but he said that in YouTube, google identifies demographic info, for example age groups of certain types of videos, which advert... 


