Google has recognized Palestine as an independent state, Google altered the wording on its local google.ps homepage to "Palestine," from "Palestinian territories" - a move being interpreted by some as tantamount to a digital endorsement of the Palestinian cause.
"We're changing the name 'Palestinian Territories' to 'Palestine' across our ...


Google has revealed YouTube most popular videos in the Arab world in the year 2012.
In a Blog post Google says “ 2012 has been a big year for YouTube in MENA. With more than 260 million views every single day”
” This year, Korean Pop music transcended boundaries and took the world by storm. Comedy, Entertainment, Music and People ...
Google released its 2012 Zeitgeist running for the 12th annual Year-End. On 2012 Zeitgeist website, you can explore the most popular and hottest trending search terms from around the world. This year’s site is our most global to date, with a total of 838 lists from 55 countries.
At ArabCrunch we looked at Arab countries mentioned in Google's...
Google announced yesterday an initiative to build a vibrant Arabic web and boost the amount of Arabic content online: “Arabic Web Days” a one-month program with initiatives by both global and regional players in the Arab world to inspire users to create more content in Arabic. The program theme is “It’s better in Arabic.”
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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...
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,...
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 Insights MENA an interactive website that provides research data about the online behavior of urban consumers in five key Arab markets: Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and UAE. This tool comes handy for online professionals, entrepreneurs, mobile apps developers and is alarming for tyrant Arab governments who can see ho...
Google shows snippet of movies show times in many countries in its search resluts, today google announced that it launched Islamic Prayer Times in search results highlighted from pages across the web.
Google says this feature will be available on all domains for searches in English and Arabic. This feature uses Google's Rich Snippets techno... 


