Why is there so little Arabic content on the Internet?

Post, Tweet, Computer, Telephone are all terms that have synonyms in Arabic, yet the English version is more popular on the internet. The Arabic content contributes only 3% of the global content on the internet, although 96 million Arabs use the internet. Many reasons were mentioned here that are related to the core language and/or technical difficulties, which gave birth to ARABIZI – writing Arabic using English letters and numbers.

The main question tackled here is:

1. Why is there so little Arabic content on the Internet?

 

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Q1.

• Digitalization of Arabic sources
• Processing difficulties – the nature of the language and the way its letters are organized to form words and sentences 
• Low translation compared to other languages
• Relying on outdated publishing techniques away from digitalization