2016-10-24: Are My Favorite Arabic Websites Archived?
In this work, I collected the top 20 Arabic websites that I like and browse, and in my personal judgment consider as popular (shown in Table 1). For each, I checked its ranking globally and locally based on Alexa Ranking . Then I used MemGator tool to check if it is archived, and got the estimated creation date based on the first memento date. After that, I checked who archived the webpage first (shown in Table 2). Arabic websites in general were evaluated based on how well they were archived and indexed in my previous work, How Well Are Arabic Websites Archived? . We sampled 300,646 Arabic language pages, and found that 46% are not archived and 31% are not indexed by Google . Table 1: List of my favorite Arabic Websites and its description Website Site Description maktoob.yahoo.com Yahoo! مكتوب A major internet portal and email service provider in Arabic language. aljazeera.net الجزيرة نت News channel, political, economic, and thoughts. 6a...