The last two decades of the twentieth century and the first of the twenty-first century witnessed the golden age of the development of software related to the Arabic language by Arab companies. During this period, desktop publishing software, spelling and grammar checking, converting spoken Arabic speech to text and vice versa appeared.
These experiments could not compete with global search engines, especially Google, which was launched in 1998. Arab companies that developed these linguistic techniques were unable to reach major international companies, with the exception of the latter.