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Make Money

November 9, 2009 11:23 PM | | Comments (1)
I'm working on a project which helps you make money while you're eating your shawarma.
More exciting than that?
What if there was a way to gather the people who are looking for properties in Dubai and those properties which are available. only with a single click!

I just got my internet connected and found sometime to come back to regular schedule. I have to make money by helping you make money.

Let's see,

Market needs a Property Search engine

August 14, 2009 12:46 AM | | Comments (0)

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In today's troubled property market, making the right choice is the hardest thing.

Dubai has suffered from the market down turn too, but geopolitically and financially Dubai still has a major role in the Middle East. Studies show the massive population of expats cannot leave the city easily and hopefully gold rush age comes back again.

Making the right choice in finding a right property, this is the reason behind the idea to make something that didn't exist before.

Imagine there are thousands of Real Estate agencies working in Dubai, each has got its own website and property list. To make the right choice, you have to go through all of them one by one and search for your lifetime purchase.

It makes life difficult. Practically web is useless in the property market. The easy solution to this is to list your property in a listing such as Gulfnews classifieds or similar online listings.

By accepting the fact that your website is useless you are actually accepting that all the budget you spent on designing your own property listing has gone wasted.

There is another solution to this, which has been already discovered, a Search Engine. To this date, we have Image Search, Book Search and ... But not a Property Search Engine.

Why? The answer is more technical. Indexing a Property list is not as simple as indexing a normal webpage. It needs reverse engineering to get to the actual database.

In Sedubai, we do the difficult part. We index property lists in Dubai and combine all the available results to bring a single, complete and practical tool for Dubai Property Market.

Imagine having a Google just to search for properties. Sedubai can bring back the hope to Dubai property market. You can be rich again by having access to the data.

Continue reading Market needs a Property Search engine.

New milestone

July 30, 2009 12:06 AM | | Comments (0)
Since the market is not so good, I thought of a new strategy. If the market recovers by 3Q of 2010, and if I rely on the data by then, when the market recovers the I will work more on the functionality.
What I have done. I got my supercomputer, so much missed him. Then I fixed the broken crawlers. Also added 2-3 new crawlers, by crawler I mean new property lists to crawl.

I've got so much hope that this is going to work, but as days go by, I find less time to work on it.

Shame on me, Do the job Ali :(

The Miracle: Information

May 27, 2009 11:06 PM | | Comments (0)
So now I have a Search engine, fully functional, not perfect but exists as a piece of art and hard work. Now I have to convince myself that it wasn't a mistake. I must hope market will be in my favor again. I must hope ...

So now that the property market is going down and down, some see no way to survive. But I do believe there is always a path to recovery.
The only thing we can rely on is Knowledge and Information,in my opinion.

There is a fact that should not be forgotten, we humans multiply and need somewhere to live. We might watch less movies or not waste our money in a useless market, But we need a place to live.
Whether it's Dubai or London or Delhi or North pole, still we need a tiny place to live. So the property market is never going to be out dated.

People leave because they don't know what to do. No one can guarantee the destination is a better place. 
The economy can not take the sun, sand and beach away.
The business can easily survive because Dubai was and is still the business hub of the whole middle east population.
Dubai can survive, Why it is not doing so is lack of knowledge.

If people know how to live cheaper, Landlords know how to be more fair, Government knows how to divert the trouble and make something out of it, then there won't be any problem.

There is always a chance to make something out of nothing.
I make Information easily accessible by bringing them all together in one place and give it an extra touch.
Sponsor me, I won't disappoint you.

Huge updates for Sedubai

May 4, 2009 11:16 PM | | Comments (0)
In the past days I've done so much for the search engine.
Currently there are 41 property list indexed by the crawler.
There has been a thousand minor fixes.
The spell checker works so so good now.
There is an empty result page now.
The interface is so so good now.
The price functions properly now.
You can see the latest crawler status now. What lists are indexed and the details.
There is a Help page, About page, ...
The dictionary is more complete now.

What kept me awake every night was the Search box analyzer. The way it finds type, location, and price. It was a nightmare how to deal with different search terms. But now it works, now it's beautiful.
I didn't simply fix the bugs and issues; I really put my brain on it to come up with the best method to develop a better AI.

It's enough for this weekend. Better take a break.

31 property lists

April 13, 2009 11:41 PM | | Comments (0)
I reached 31 websites, 31 plugins for 31 different property lists, while the world is in economic melt down.

I still believe in Dubai,
I like what I'm doing in this project, It's a smart idea but i'm confused whether i get somewhere with it or not.

I have 50 thousand property records from around dubai on daily basis,
I can play with them, find out the most expensive or the cheapest house,
I can see who is selling more and who is selling what,

How can dubai recover again after people leaving it?
I'm really doing good and even by now i could expect someone to sponsor me, but the property market is disappointed, not me.

Usual Big steps

March 13, 2009 4:34 AM | | Comments (0)
This weekend was amazing.
Actually not so amazing because I didn't leave the house at all. Just sat infront of the montior and looked at property lists.
But although it wasn't a happy weekend, I'm happy about it.
I could index 16-17 new websites now. It was only 4 and within 2 days it reached 17. That's a good sign,
This weekend it might reach 50 or so.
What worries me now is that the Mac Book Air can't crawl the whole list. My friend who was suppose to be back from Dubai by now is still there and my super computer is still in Dubai.
I need it more day by day :C

I'm still working on the design part of it. I think it looks better now but not sure yet. It's difficult to do everything with the smallest laptop in the world. But a geek can do so.

please go and visit my sedubai at www.sedubai.com

Also, I'm trying to get it listed on other search engines. my exprience shows that I have to make my site first on the google. same as www.Photodubai.com

That was a successful web exprience, I made the site in 2004 and now it's 5 years that the site is up and running, from a very small and simple website to a very sharp well cutted design and thousands of photos.

I make Sedubai a nobel site too. I make it.

Speeding up the development

March 4, 2009 10:30 PM | | Comments (0)
Although I had a busy happy weekend, still I could manage to have a big step done.

I couldn't come up with a new style yet. The old one is so beautiful but honestly not the correct look and feel.

I think the location query is better now.
The web app recognizes Buy and Rent now.

ooh, It's now Keyword oriented as well. It's so helpful for the search result. Yoohoo.

And I could manage to have 3 more sites indexed.

The only problem is, my little Air Book doesn't survive crawling all the sites. So I'm waiting for my 64bit quad core super computer to come from Dubai.

I assembled it specially for Crawling Indexing website, because my server side application is also 64bit coded application.

What to come: More sites to Crawl

Weekend and .net

February 23, 2009 2:10 AM | | Comments (0)
This weekend was a good weekend.
I could focus on fixing the old issues on Sedubai. many of the websites I used to crawl have been changed in style and format. So I fixed some of them again.
But instead of fixing old crawler I have to index new property lists. I promiss myself next weekend I'll do so.

The search page, the text box and drop down menus were just a mess. I don't know why I thought they work fine.
I fixed the price issue. In the text box if you type 2000 AED or AED 2000 still it will find it. it was just one way.

Dropdown lists are generating from database now.
The dictionary to check the spelling of search term will function better now.
Buy/Rent option is now added to the whole online and server side.

on the server side, now I can manage the different forms of the same thing easily.!!!
for example: JBR=Jumeirah Beach Residence= ....

I didn't have Type in the search process although I had it everywhere, Ouch! now fixed.

Now when you change something in the dropdown lists, it will automaticaly affect the search term.

What else?!

Things to do:
  • Look and feel of the site, I don't like it.
  • Still it doesn't query the location properly
  • Buy / Rent from user still unrecognizable
  • I think price has some problems too
  • Should think about "million" entry too
  • I have to consider unrecognizable keyword as a seperate text and use them in query
  • More work on the administrative side
  • And more sites to crawl
How to make money out of it

4 In the morning

February 7, 2009 7:49 AM | | Comments (1)
London, 4 in the morning.

I've got the pattern analyser working again. I've tested betterhomes website and it could find the pattern of property list.

And I have found a new trick to list Ajax orianted listings. I used to love ajax but cracking deep into it is not as easy as I thought.

So I simply disable Java in my browser and wait to see what comes up. If there is a version for not ajax browsers then fine, if not then I just do list that real estate in my index.

Now, let's find more and more websites....
It's weekend tomorrow. I hope I get to somewhere good.
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