Sweden - Sverige #1 [locked and continued]

10 search engines, 5 directories

[rencke]

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Sweden - Sverige
Fact sheet [odci.gov]
Domain(s): se
Online population: 5,0 million (56,4%) (1Q/2001)
Native language(s): Swedish
Understanding of English: Very high
Hosts in domain: 0,6 million (April 2001)
Pages in language: 4,79 million (April 2001, all domains)
Pages in domain 4,62 million (Sep 2000, all languages)
Local presence required for domain registration: Yes
Multiple domains allowed: No
Professional help: See bottom of page

Known general search engines:

Allt [allt.com]
Language interface: Swedish Traffic volume: Not on top 20 Local language(s) required: No Local domain(s) only: No Search technology: Own Meta description used in search replies: Yes
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Keyword in meta keywords: ? Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: ?

Altavista [se.altavista.com]
Language interface: Swedish Traffic volume: .com is #3 and .se is #6 in Sweden Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? Search technology: ? Meta description used in search replies: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Keyword in meta keywords: ? Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: ?

Chello [chello.se]
Language interface: English Traffic volume: Not in top 20 Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? Search technology: Inktomi Meta description used in search replies: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Keyword in meta keywords: ? Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: ?

Entireweb [entireweb.com]
Language interface: English Traffic volume: Not in top 20 Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? Search technology: Own Meta description used in search replies: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Keyword in meta keywords: ? Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: ?

Euroseek [euroseek.com]
Language interface: All European languages Traffic volume: #17 in Sweden Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? Search technology: ? Meta description used in search replies: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Keyword in meta keywords: ? Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: ?

Chello [everyday.se]
Language interface: English Traffic volume: Not in top 20 Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? Search technology: Inktomi Meta description used in search replies: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Keyword in meta keywords: ? Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: ?

Evreka [evreka.passagen.se]
Language interface: Swedish Traffic volume: #1 in Sweden Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? Search technology: Fast Meta description used in search replies: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Keyword in meta keywords: ? Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: ?

Excite [se.excite.com]
Language interface: Swedish Traffic volume: #9 in Sweden Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? Search technology: ? Meta description used in search replies: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Keyword in meta keywords: ? Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: ?

Hotbot [hotbot.lycos.se]
Language interface: Swedish Traffic volume: ? Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? Search technology: ? Meta description used in search replies: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Keyword in meta keywords: ? Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: ?

Koll.se Shutdown announced Feb 7, 2001. [expressen.se]

Lycos [lycos.se]
Language interface: Swedish Traffic volume: Lycos.com is # 6 and Lycos.se #11 in Sweden Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? Search technology: ? Meta description used in search replies: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Keyword in meta keywords: ? Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: ?

MSN [msn.se]
Language interface: English Traffic volume: #2 in Sweden Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? Search technology: Own Meta description used in search replies: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Keyword in meta keywords: ? Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: ?

Spray [spray.se]
Language interface: Swedish Traffic volume: #4 in Sweden Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? No. of categories allowed per site: ? Search method: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Other: Portal with search facilities owned by Lycos Europe and using Fast for web searches.

Known general directories:

100.nu [100.nu]
Language interface: Swedish Traffic volume: Not in top 20 Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? No. of categories allowed per site: ? Search method: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Other: ?

Catweb [catweb.nu]
Language interface: Swedish Traffic volume: 190.000-220.000 unique visitors per month. Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? No. of categories allowed per site: ? Search method: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Other: ?

Sunet [sunet.se]
Language interface: Swedish, English Traffic volume: #12 in Sweden Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? No. of categories allowed per site: ? Search method: Directory only
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Other: This is Sweden's original directory from the start of the web. (Sunet=Swedish University Network)

Tjohoo [tjohoo.se]
Language interface: Swedish Traffic volume: #22 in Sweden Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? No. of categories allowed per site: ? Search method: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Other: ?

Yahoo! [se.yahoo.com]
Language interface: Swedish Traffic volume: Yahoo.com is #5 and Yahoo.se #8 in Sweden Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? No. of categories allowed per site: ? Search method: ?
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: ? Keyword in title: ? Keyword in description: ? Other: ?

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Updated 24 April, 2001

Edited by: rencke

[henki]

Yes, Koll is closed as a portal, but we are hired to see what future the search engine might have. So it is not really game over yet. I´ll keep you posted.

Noticed that Lycos opened a swedish version of HotBot today. [hotbot.lycos.se...]

Why? Maby because they are not happy with their partner www.spray.se who has not paid up yet and want to put some preassure on spray?

[rencke]

Why don't you buy it? They have announced a 50 msek write-off and you can probably get it for 1 cent on the dollar. Just think - your own search engine and access to the raw search log. The index db seems to be huge. Have they spidered all this themselves?

[rencke]

Re: WEBBAS - the indexing software inside Entireweb [entireweb.com].

Earlier in this discussion it was stated that Entireweb is based on a commercially available script from Curry Guide. This has turned out to be wrong.

I have just had a long telephone conversation with the creator of Webbas - Mr Lars Holmström, 60, a retired programmer and businessman from Falkenberg Sweden now living in England, who was a bit perturbed over what had been written here and was anxious to have the record set straight.

He still owns part of ECE Data of Falkenberg, which he founded 15 years ago, but has sold the majority and retired as CEO. He is third from left in the top row here [ecedata.se]. He has programmed in Fortran since before there were operating systems. Webbas is his current preoccupation and he has spent 4 years developing it.

The whole thing started 7-8 years ago when he bought a custom made 8-channel transputer from the whizz-kids behind Fast Search, then at the University of Trondheim. Webbas is his own development along the same basic concept behind Fast, i.e. that piece of hardware which makes parallell databases possible. In the version used by Entireweb Webbas indexes meta only and nothing else, but it can be set to full text indexing. The thing is that the whole engine can be run from one single server, with 24 db:s of 2 Gb each running in parallell. More servers can be added and he claims that there is no upward limit for the size of the index. It is in other words very inexpensive to own and operate. And extremely fast according to Mr Holmström.

Marcus Andersson, 22, the owner of WorldLight.com AB who operate Entireweb, is a locally well known kid in the province of Halland, "Halmstad's Bill Gates" to quote a local e-zine [chili.se]. He offered to beta test Wwbbas for the year ending 31 March 2001. What happens after that is anybody's guess, but Mr Holmström has indicated to me he would like to see a license fee paid.

The people behind WorldLight have enganged in spamming techniques - here and elsewhere - to generate interest for their site and it seems to me that Mr Holmström has been dragged into the ensuing controversy through no wrongdoing of his own. I am therefore happy to set the record straight.

- Jan Rencke

[typos corrected]

Edited by: rencke

[henki]

Jan, I am glad you sorted that out with Entireweb. The promotion method used, is very similar to many home made meta searches. Starting threads in forums, where they claim to have "found" a new search engine, in order to get the discussions going and the name promoted.

They had a second search with Curry guides, the most common search clone around. Those two facts, lead us to believe that this was just a case of spamming.

It sounded to good to be true that they had developed their own technology and was residing in a small west coast town in Sweden.

I am happy that that they are legit and whish them all luck. Hopefully they learned to be honest when posting in the fora where the pros hang. If they had, they would never got bashed.

I will update the other forum with the information that you stated here, Jan, thanks again!

[akocsis]

Hello,

I have been submitting a site to Allt, and for several months there was a notice saying that the site is under construction, they are experimenting a new type of engine. Afterwards I could not submit the URLs any more, since there was no link that would provide a submission possibility, moreover there was no way to contact the editors.

Has anyone else noticed it? Is there a solution?

Thank you,

Andrea

[henki]

No the submit page is down. They say it will open again in April.

[henki]

I noticed that www.allt.com has a new look and that they are linking to international partners. What is that all about?

Koll will not live in its present form. Maby it will be bought by one of the portals. There is talk, and the owner, Bonnier has paid Inktomi to the end of the year, so they really want to get rid of it.

Had a meeting with Lycos/HotBot/Spray last week. HotBot will keep Inktomi and will be marketed separately. As I reported they are opening 8 european versions this year and hope to attract a younger audience.

Lycos will be closed in favor of Spray, as agreed between the two companies last year. The same goes for France.

[hotbot.lycos.se...] Marketing budget is not set yet, but they expect to go out big during 2001.

[henki]

Jan, looking at the list I notice that www.Chello.se an Inktomi driven search at the leading broad band provider is missing.

That goes for major portal www.everyday.se , also Inktomi driven.
Both deliver traffic and should be on your list.

Notice that Google has become one of the most important SEs in Sweden during the last three months. After talking to AV, I think that it is the lojal experienced users from AV that is now using Google.

[rencke]

Thanks Henki. Good info as ususal. Will update the entry for Sweden as soon as I have caught up with things (Have been travelling for a couple of days.)

Is Chello Swedish????? Didn't know that. I thought they were an ISP somewhere out there. Are you sure?

Re Google. They topped my referral statistics for February for the first time ever, so I agree. No changes in sites that could possibly account for this sudden surge. Outclassed all others! They are coming here in a big way, riding on a wave of favourable publicity. Am telling all my customers, as I am sure you are already doing. (Not mine, yours ;) )

[henki]

Sure is. ;) But we seen Google come big in our own and our clients logs as well.

Re Chello. They are a Dutch company, with operations all over europe. www.chello.se is the Swedish company´s website. It is operated from Sweden.
The search engine is Inktomi.

[rencke]

The overview of Sweden has been updated with the information supplied by henki above and with new demographics and other statistics. The updated post is found in the continuation of this discussion here [webmasterworld.com]. This thread has been shut down due to its length. Those who subscribe to autmotatic e-mail notification will have to renew that for part 2.