View of part of the Fujairah Corniche and the Hajar Mountains in the Background

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Facebook Rising in Popularity in the UAE

According to the October report from Alexa, Facebook is now the 7th most visited site on the Internet by people from the UAE.

The current UAE ranking is Google UAE (1st), Yahoo (2nd), Windows Live (3rd), YouTube (4th), Microsoft Network-MSN (5th), Google.com (6th).

The largest Arab Online community, Maktoob comes in at 8th place.

GulfTalent.com, the Middle East’s leading online recruitment form announced the launch of its online job search application on Facebook according to a statement today from Al Bawaba (check out this extensive report).

Geoff Pound

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