Financial Times – Shining a light on the web
When Elie Khoury, a self-confessed “computer guy” since the age of 12, started a website about playing the guitar, he struggled to find an analytical programme to give him timely data about who was looking at his website and what they were looking at.
So there was only one thing for the Lebanese American University computer science student to do: invent one himself.
“From the very first day we launched, we knew it was going to be a big hit,” he says, sitting next to computer screens displaying Woopra, a website analysis programme developed by Mr Khoury, 23, and Jad Younan, 24: Lebanon’s answer to Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
