Thank goodness for Internet translation services.
Without them, anyone who is not fluent in Arabic would never be able to read the content of akhbarak.net, a site that displays links to news articles and other topics pertaining to Egypt, and from many different sources.
This Egyptian equivalent to Yahoo! News provides links to articles covering general news, sports, economy, arts and culture, and other topics from its home country.
The timeliness of its content can be selected, too, letting users select stories from the last 24, 12, eight and four hours, and even from the last hour or last 20 minutes.
A visitor from Cairo can find all he or she needs to remain up-to-date from the site, which even includes a weather widget and daily prayer calendar. Users from other parts of the world, and who may not be fluent in the Arabic language, can rely on Internet translation for news from this site.
Even with the translation, though, akhbarak.net can still be difficult to read. Its headers, which are upon the site in graphic format, remain non-translated, for example. And the translations provided can be difficult to read, too, and might not give an English speaker an accurate reflection on the site’s news articles. For example, the top sports story on this “Your news. Forum – home” page reads “Urgent … Egypt team is located in Brazil with one group of London Olympics” in the translation.
This apparent word-for-word translation is not a reflection on akhbarak.net, however, nor on its administrators or host; the translation is provided by the site visitor’s browser service (which, in this example, is Google Plus).
Akhbarak also has its own Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/Akhbarak.Net.Page) and Twitter account (https://twitter.com/#!/akhbarak_net).
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