In my previous post, I attempted (and notice the word attempted) to use my googling skills to find some information about مرقدوش margadoosh in particular its origin as I wasn’t sure at the time.
Typed: مرقدوش
Click!
The list appears
First result: a medical forum
Excellent! I’m very sure these guys know what they’re writing about.
“Well sorry to say that you can’t read what we’ve written unless you register to our beloved forum and join our family of members”
WTF! Blah, there’s bound to be another forum who’ve copied and pasted this thread somewhere in cyberspace.
Second result: A ‘women’s’ forum
Great! Women always worry about the health of their loved ones so there must be lots of threads about Margadoosh!
“Sorry we cannot let you enter or read our threads, as we women are all not wearing our hijjabs. Please register so that you can be breastfed by our webmistress and become a ‘mohrim’ to us all”
No thanks, cyber breastfeeding isn’t my cup of tea
Third result: A Bahraini forum
Yes, finally a forum I don’t need to register to read any threads, now show me the Margadoosh!
“مرقدوش: Thanks everyone for your replies!
مرقدوش: ha ha ha I’ll see next Friday
مرقدوش: *copied and pasted thread* Manqooooooooool”
B*ll*cks! Margadoosh is a member in the forum and hasn’t written anything about Margadoosh!
Fourth Result: Another Bahraini forum
مرقدوش: “*same copied and pasted thread* Manqooooooooool”
Wonderful! Same dude different forum
Fifth to Tenth results: all of the same person (apparently) but different Bahraini forums and websites ugh!
*New Search*
Typed: Margadoosh (English)
First result:Found what I was looking for straight away and added the link in the post
Why do we Arabs love to make everything so difficult and such a pain in the ass?
LOL !
لكن.. الله يساعد جوجل علينا ..
المواقع العربية اختبار حقيقي ل”خوازميات” محرك البحث
Margadoosh is really like holy water, I am absolutely repelled by it.
Perhaps you’d do good for those who seek “The Margadoosh” and write an arabic entry at wikipedia about it, now that you have found it yourself.
I wouldn’t ever try to search with arabic keywords, because like you have experienced, all that you get is useless and irrelevant text from forums and boards. A tiny bit, probably blog results, would be of some quality.
On the bright side though, maybe google will visit you at night and crawl all over your blog, so that next time one searches for margadoosh, they will find your blog :3
Try adding the الــ before every arabic search you do on google, truly helps!
i actually think they’ve made it a lot simpler. everything is in english. scrap the million different other languages out there.
wanna feel confused? try reading this: http://www.qq.com/
i second H. Why dont you write the arabic margadoosh article?
@Ali7: حي الله من يانا ايي والله يخي الواحد يصيده احباط يعني كلش مافي مواقع عربية مفيدة و علشان شي بسيط مثل المرقدوش و فوائده شي يعني بحريني بحت و ما تحصل عنه شي و اذا تكتبه بالانجليزي تلقاه من اول موقع اشدعوة عاد
@ H.: Walla it’s a good idea, I’ll try to convince my mum to write something about Margadoosh in Arabic for the Arabic Wikipedia, she just needs to get more confident with Microsoft Word hehe
@moodz: I always though it was the other way round that if you don’t put ال you’d get a better chance of finding the info you want. I’ll keep this in mind for next time. Thanks for the tip!
@ammaro: No, it’s just that Arabs don’t realize the potential of Arabic and putting up information for free to help humanity. Everything is either behind ‘registrations’ or simply not on the internet because it’s ’secret information’!
HAHAHA
Margadoosh was the pseudonym of a friend of mine who used to write on all the local forums. Guess he thought it was a cool nikname at the time not knowing he’ll be sending ppl on a wild goose chase.
What is margadoosh actually made of? It tastes like bottled liquified natural gas
@Babbling Bahrain: lol well all I can say is… send him my regards
@moodz (again): Dude! adding ال is making wonders for my googling! Cheers! *raises his coffe cup*
it does help an ailing stomach though. i use it when i need it and it seems to always help.
I think the roundabout mentality(rather than go from A to B go from A to Z and all points in between) was forced on the Bahraini psyche by the insane round-about road system forced upon them by the English colonizers….going round and round and round is always more fun if less productive then getting straight to the point…eh?