Q8Ba7th Official Blog

It’s been a while since any major update happened at Q8Ba7th. At first, I was busy with Q8igg, and then during Ramadan things just weren’t going as I wanted them. But I have been working slowly and silently on something new. It’s not a technical breakthrough, but it’s something that will hopefully ease for people in Kuwait finding the information they want. Another custom search has been created to search for Phones numbers in Kuwait. I noticed that many sites list large amount of useful phone numbers, and many companies as well have their phone number listed at their site. But try to search that phone number on Google. Most of the time it’s not easy because of the increasing number of pages that have the same keyword. Say you are looking for a worldwide famous restaurant number. You would get large number of results. Now try it with Q8Ba7th search for Kuwait site. You may also have difficulty finding that information from the increasing number of blogs talking about each and every restaurant or company they deal with.

With Q8Ba7th Phone Search, we have tried to restrict the search to pages with useful phone numbers, and also the contact pages of companies and different sites. All in one custom search for you to find. That means you will get much smaller results in general, but more focused as well. In some occasions, where site does not provide company number, or the whole site is flash based, we try to put the link as close and relevant as possible. Sometimes to the contact us form, and others to the main flash page where it’s easy to browse then to the phone number usually.

So why don’t you give it a try now and search for something like وزارة المالية, hardees, Embassy, or anything else you may need. See if you can find it. To switch between phone search and general search, please use the new radio buttons below the search box to specify your search.

I’ll have to be honest with one thing. Building this directory hasn’t been much of fun, low on technical challenges, so much time wasting that I even thought about abandoning the idea several times before I saw some potential to it. Nevertheless building the index have taught me a lot on how to plan for the information to be retrievable and useful for the end user. It has also confirmed to me once again Google Custom Search has still some work to do before it’s stable enough. Read below to see why you may not find the information you are looking for at times.

Why Can’t I Find The Information I Need?

Wish you could find everything that easy, and we will try our best to make it as good as possible. Not finding your result could be for several reasons. (Warning: Some technical details included below):

1. You did not write the exact phrase: As there is no intelligence in the search, you will mostly need to write the name exactly as it was written. Try different wording, and try to search for it in both English & Arabic. Some famous brands have only listed their brand name in one language. Sometimes only in English when it is commonly used in Arabic among public.
2. The site or information is not searchable: Google Custom Search can go through text only. They cannot search your flash site or phone number that’s inside an image.
3. The site is not titled properly: Unfortunately, many sites ignore the necessity of the Title for the reader and searching engines, and simply use the title as Contact Us. So when I search for the company name, the search engine may not return the result as the company name is not written in the title, and sometimes only written within an image header. Making the search engine clueless on what the page is about. A more convenient and better way would be to write “Q8Ba7th – Contact Us” in the title. Also, company or site name should be visible at top of the page as well. If it’s inside an image, then use the Alt attribute to label it accordingly. Otherwise search engines can’t return it as a result for the user query. You would be missing your target customer traffic in that case.
4. Dynamic Content: Like the Ministry of Education School Search. Loads of useful information are only pulled from their system dynamically upon user custom search query, thus making it hidden from search engines. Otherwise, you would be able to run a query for “مدرسة بيان الثانوية” and get your result.
5. It’s not added to our index: We do not have all sites of Kuwait added most certainly. We are working hard to enhance our directory all the time. So if you happen to know a resource or URL we are missing, please let us know.
6. Bugs?: Yes. Our search is powered by Google Custom Search, which is a great service by the way but it needs more tweaking. Sometimes even the pages that are added to the index are not returned in the results. We have contacted Google for the issue and they seem to be improving their index all the time. Forza Google!

Please, feel free to use the service, and be encouraged to give me back your feedback on it.

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