Profiled - MediaRhyme - a search engine that enables users to search and download audio, video and/or torrents
An interview with Jad Aizarani, founder of MediaRhyme talks about search and downloads
The Social Media Portal (SMP) talks to Jad Aizarani about search engines, downloads and the impact of social media in this space
Social Media Portal (SMP): What is your full job title and role (what do you do there at MediaRhyme)?Jad Aizarani (JA): I?m a 16 year old Web Designer, Developer and Enterpeuner from Beirut, Lebanon. I?ve always thought that the web life still needs something new / interactive and more efficient, so after 2 months of hard work and sleepless nights the idea of making a ?Download Search Engine? aroused, I call it MediaRhyme ? MediaRhyme is a search engine that enables you to download any Audio, Video, E-book and Torrent and also includes a web search and dictionary and a translator.
I am the founder and CEO of MediaRhyme, my role is to maintain and administrate MediaRhyme
SMP: Briefley, tell us about MediaRhyme, what is it and what does it do?JA: MediaRhyme is a search engine that enables you to download any audio, video and/or or torrent and also contains a web search, dictionary and translator.
SMP: What made you start MediaRhyme? JA: For two months I kept on thinking in creating a website that enables users to download anything in a better and more efficient way.
SMP: What was the most challenging part of building the service?JA: The most challenging part of building the service was the web search , because I wanted to create an easier web search that makes the people want to use it; so I created an Ajax web search which obtains results from Google, Bing and Ask.
SMP: Who are your target audience and why?JA: Everyone in the world, because I strive to make MediaRhyme an international website not just for the Middle East.
SMP: How did you initially attract users to your site/service, and how do you do it now?JA: It started spreading on its own, till now I do not advertise my site, yet it gains over 10,000 visitors each day.
SMP: What are the low moments of what you have been doing so far?JA: There have not been any low moments so far.
SMP: What are the high moments of what you have been doing so far?JA: Now MediaRhyme receives over 10,000 visitors each day, but we tend for bigger results in the future.
SMP: Now that you are established, what do you see as your biggest challenges and opportunities?JA: We strive in reaching a bigger number of visitors and download, because we think MediaRhyme has the potential of enabling all the users on the web to have a simplified and a better web life.
SMP: What are the next moves for MediaRhyme?JA: We want to keep on offering the latest results in music and videos from a consumers perspective. For developers ? we want to be the default search engine solution.
SMP: What?s going to be the most interesting aspect regarding social media and networks?JA: Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace will be presented by default; mobile phones will have a bigger commercial role as an interaction with the popular social networks.
SMP: Now it is reported that we may be moving out of the global recession what do what impact do you think social media may have upon a business such as yours?JA: The progress and the development of social media and networks will enable organisations such as mine to target more audience in a lower cost.
SMP: How does this fit into plans at MediaRhyme?JA: Above and beyond using the power of social media and networks widely in our promotion plan, we work on making MediaRhyme become a vital need for the users online to make their web life easier and more efficient.
SMP: Best way to contact you?JA: jad.a @ mediarhyme.com
Now some questions for fun:
SMP: What did you have for breakfast / lunch?JA: Pancakes / Spaghetti
SMP: What?s the last good thing that you did for someone?JA: Buy someone a domain name to boost his business
SMP: If you weren?t running MediaRhyme what would you be doing?JA: Run a media and advertising company
SMP: How many hours to you work a week?JA: Not much because I?m still in school
SMP: When and where did you go on your last holiday?
JA: Sweden in June
SMP: What?s the first thing you do when you get into the office of a morning?JA: Don?t have an office, I go to school in the morning
SMP: If you had a superpower what would it be and why?JA: To be able to fly, because it would be much easier in discovering the world :)
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