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Yamli search, Search in both languages at once

By: Qwaider

On:Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:21:30 AM
In:Science & Technology
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Amazing! Brilliant! Visionary! Spectacular! Few words that cross your mind when you start working with the new, amazing interface that Yamli is providing as they aim towards making their page your first and only web page (other than my blog) that you would want to view constantly.

The new service bridges the old gap of, typing in yamli, then taking it to Google and getting the search results. But that's barely the tip of the ice berg. Since that was available for users for a long time. But not in this level of sophistication

First, you will get search results in both Arabic and English based on the words you write. As a matter of fact, I find this more relevant than searching for "Al Bidaya Wal Nihaya book" in Arabic or in English alone.

The results are displayed Side by side, but don't be fooled. Those are NOT the same results, with only a translation. These are the top Arabic, and the top English results on the same page.

Pretty neat, huh?

That's not all...

The site offers the user the ability to switch the English words used for the search with a number of other possible words.

The user can also search, images, videos and Wikipedia. But the coolest part is that you don't have to switch sites to get to the video. It just opens in a modal window, plays, and you can continue with your search. Similar to what Google recently started to offer. Only way cooler, and looking way better and more functional

The interesting part is that the search results are offered by Google, the Images by Live Images, Videos by YouTube, and Wikipedia by Google. I guess, this is a good strategy.

Go ahead, play around with it. It's being officially released today...

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#1
za3tar
Said
On: 12/16/2008 1:03:41 AM
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Cool! Sounds very neat!

btw, are you part of the Yamli team ? or are you just super-excited for an Arab startup that is actually doing something new ? (ok .. almost new ;-p)

#2
za3tar
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On: 12/16/2008 1:06:28 AM
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WOW ... i just tried this and it is very cool !!!! yaaaay .. now i understand why you raved about it .. it is really good ... great job yamli

#3
Qwaider
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On: 12/16/2008 1:25:27 AM
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I'm very excited to see Arab startups doing excellent work in fields that were formerly exclusive to huge companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. These folks are the future, and provide me and everyone else with an optimistic vision of the future, there is still hope for us
That's why I'm always following up on their progress and share their amazing success with everyone
So, yeah, I'm pretty proud of them.