thai and vietnamese engines

searching for information on thai and vietnamese search engines

[a2ztranslate]

hello all, am looking for any/all info on thai and vietnamese search engines, in particular which ones are the most popular. having diffculty sorting the wheat from the chaff; there seem to be a quite a few portal types but not sure on what kind of serach traffic they get.

cheers

[nuhkweb]

It depends if you need English language search engines or engines in the local Thai and Vietnamese languages.
Have a look at these:

Thailand Search Engines:
www.thaipro.com at [thaipro.com ]
www.thaiseek.com at [thaiseek.com ]
www.sanook.com at [sanook.com ]

Vietnam Search Engines:
Vietgate at [viet.net ]

[a2ztranslate]

thanks nuhkweb, am really looking for thai and vietnamese language engines. have sourced a few but have no idea of which ones actually get some traffic.

[Woz]

Hey a2ztranslate, care to share your findings?

Onya
Woz

[a2ztranslate]

no problems will post as soon as i have collated what i can find.

[takagi]

It seems searching at VietGate (www.viet.net) is powered by VietHoo [viethoo.net] which also has an Add new URL [viethoo.net] page. I also found VinaSeek [vinaseek.com] and PanVietnam [search.netnam.vn] but I have no idea if these are really used in Vietnam. Don't forget there is also Vietnamese Google [google.com.vn].

[a2ztranslate]

Hi all, here are the results of the research for Thailand so far. I have no idea which sites have trafiic and which don't; i have added a site to all engines below so we will see what happens in my logs over the next month or so.

I was expecting a lot more UTF sites, but virtually all were win-874 with one tis-620 which i havent come across before.

Have listed info on each site in following order:
URL
Site language
Charset
Notes

Hope it is of some use (and at least if its here I can some back and find it when I lose it on my own hard drive!)

[thaiwebsites.com...]
English
charset=iso-8859-1
Email submission only

[thaiweb.yumyai.com...]
Thai
charset=windows-874

[i-kool.com...]
Thai
charset=windows-874
add URL link down, beware pop-ups!

[search.cscoms.com...]
Thai
charset=Windows-874

[siamguru.com...]
Thai
charset=windows-874

[thaifind.com...]
Thai and English
charset=Windows-874

[webindex.sanook.com...]
Thai
charset=windows-874 charset=tis-620
has 2 charset tags?

[siaminside.com...]
Thai
charset=windows-874

[thaibuz.com...]
English and Thai
no charset

[thai.com...]
English and Thai
charset=windows-874
appears to be a paid shopping site

[thaiseek.com...]
English and Thai
no charset set

[topthaisites.com...]
English
Thailand related English sites only

[thaipro.com...]
English
charset=windows-1252
Thailand related English sites only

[sansuk.com...]
Thai
charset=windows-874

[ethaithai.com...]
Thai
charset=windows-874
need to create account first to submit

[linksiam.com...]
Thai
charset=windows-874

[hunsa.com...]
Thaicharset=Windows-874
draws from Google

[mthai.com...]
Thai
charset=tis-620
draws from Google

[ped1.com...]
Thai
charset=Windows-874
required back link to this site to submit

[thaitopsites.com...]
Thai
charset=Windows-874

[thaiger.com...]
English
charset=Windows-874
mainly tourism related

[thailand.com...]
English and Thai
English B2B site for meshing exporters with importers

[thaitop.com...]
Thai
No charset set

[thaispider.net...]
No charset set
need to create an account first

[search.asiaco.com...]
English
pan-asian search engine

[ethailand.com...]
English
charset=iso-8859-1
business directory

[Woz]

Great work, thanks A2Z.

Onya
Woz

[bill]

Hey Woz, wouldn't that fit nicely into your WebmasterWorld Asia SE guide? <nudge, nudge, hint hint>

Thanks for that info a2ztranslate. That's a killer list.

[Woz]

You nudge once more bill and I'll, um, do something unpleasant along the lines of Monty Python!

;)

[a2ztranslate]

hey woz, can i get my hands on such a guide? got a lot of other languages to contribute as well if required!

[Woz]

a2z, bill is talking about the first Asia-Pacific Overview [webmasterworld.com] I did a few years ago, which is now somewhat out of date. I have planned to do an update for some time, hence bill's occasional good-natured nudging, but I am afraid I also have other priorities at the moment so I am not sure when the Second Edition will appear.

Onya
Woz

[Marcello]

I also would be interested in a new list af all Asia search engines