With a circulation of 180,000 copies daily, El Watan is the leading daily French Algerian newspaper. Since its launch in 1990, El Watan is at the service of its readers and recognizes the need to disseminate information through new media like the Internet. Its website is launched in 1997. This is the first Algerian press site online.

El Watan has also become a forum for debate and reflection for Algerian intellectuals and a permanent forum for discussion on issues of democracy and economic and social issues in the country.

In this context, El Watan has undertaken a strategic project to strengthen its strategic loyalty of the readership. The daily wishes to offer its users quick and easy access to articles and archives and allowing access to publications of the day in plain text, image or video. El Watan publishes 120 to 200 articles per day.

The search engine on its site provides responses based on the meaning of content and refines or directs readers to other articles on the same subject, while offering the reader the possibility to comment on the content. A multilingual semantic search engine was chosen as the best approach to achieve the objectives of El Watan.

Since the implementation of the Sinequa search engine, the number of requests on the web site has increased considerably, forcing El Watan to install a second server.

Traffic on the website is increasing and generating significant advertising revenue. Thanks to the relevance of the search engine and comments to content, the website is well positioned to become a real forum for debate and reflection for all Algerian intellectuals.

"The Sinequa search engine plays a strategic role in ensuring the success of our newspaper and connecting our readers with the content that matters to them. This forms a vital part of strategy to satisfy the needs of our readers around the world," said Fatima Bendriss, Head of Documentation and Internet, El Watan. “The increase in readers coming to the site has enabled us to maintain our advertising revenue.”