Ayna

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For the municipality in Spain: Ayna.

Ayna means Where in the Arabic language, and it is also the name of one of the largest Arabic language search engines. Ayna serves the Arabic speaking people of Middle East and North Africa (approximately 280 Million people). Ayna was founded in 1997 providing search engine and Internet directory services in Arabic, and by 2006 it had transformed itself into the site to use when searching for Arabic and Arabic related resources on the Internet.

Operations and history

Ayna adds OpenSearch support - June 2007
Ayna celebrates 10th Birthday - June 2007
Ayna launches first contextual ad service for MENA region - March 2007
Ayna launches a set of new services and improvement under the "Beirut release" - March 2007
Ayna sponsors 3rd Arabic Search Engine Conference (SSH, EG) - March 2007
Ayna sign marketing agreement with Aljazeera.net - January 2007
Ayna launches (jawal.ayna.com)mobile service - December 2006
Ayna sponsors 2nd Arabic Search Engine Conference (SSH, EG) - March 2006
Ayna signs contract with Fast Search & Transfer - January 2006
Ayna sponsors 1st Arabic Search Engine Conference (SSH, EG) - February 2005
Research by ARADO proclaimed Ayna as the only Arabic search engine online - February 2005
Ayna unveils new look - December 2005
Ayna ranked in top 1000 by Alexa.com - June 2000
Ayna receives IWA reader's Choice Award - February 1998
Ayna launches first Arabic search engine - July 1997
Ayna establishes internet presence - may 1997