Romania

5 directories

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Romania
Fact sheet [odci.gov]
Domain(s): ro
Online population: 0,6 million, 2,7% (July 2000)
Native language(s): Romanian, Hungarian
Understanding of English: At least 20% of population
Hosts in domain: 41.400 (April 2001)
Pages in language: 220.000 (April 2001, all domains)
Pages in domain: 510.000 million (April 2001, all languages)
Local presence required for domain registration: No
Multiple domains allowed: Yes
Professional help: See bottom of page

Known general search engines:

Edison [edison.ro]
Language interface: Romanian 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: ?

Known general directories:

Alias [alias.go.ro]
Language interface: Romanian Traffic volume: ? 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: ?

click&go! [click.mbaldean.com]
Language interface: Romanian Traffic volume: ? 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: ?

ROL, Romania Online [rol.ro]
Language interface: ? Traffic volume: ? 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: ?

Romainan Internet Directory [cccis.ro]
Language interface: English Traffic volume: ? 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: ?

Start [start.ro]
Language interface: Romanian Traffic volume: ? 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 23 April, 2001

Edited by: rencke

[cbraescu]

> Native language(s): Romanian, Hungarian, Russian

Actually there are no Russian native speakers in Romania.

> Understanding of English: ?

At least 20% of the population (it is the foregn language of choice for more than 30 years).

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[cbraescu]

Edison.ro is also big on the Romanian market (www.edison.ro).

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[cbraescu]

Name = Catalin Braescu

Web = www.linuxtransit.com

E-mail = [e-mail]

Languages = Romanian, English

Catalin

[rencke]

Bine ati venit la WebmasterWorld and to the European search engines forum, cbraescu! I hope you find this forum useful and look forward to working with you on the question of Romanian search engines. Before I update the chart above, could you tell me something about edison.ro? I tried it and the results I got came from other search engines. Does that mean that it is a meta search engine or does it in fact have a spidered index of its own?

[cbraescu]

Edison (www.edison.ro) is a Romanian online service quite similar to a mix between AOL, Yahoo and About.com.

Edison offers a web portal, a custom web browser, and a a list of guides. It is aimed at those 80% of surfers that do not enjoy computers and don't intend to punish themselves using complicated software.

Also take notice a lot of computer users in Romania know only slightly English or not at all (= they are not comfortable with English, even tough they might knew it). So Edison offers automatic translation from English to Romanian (similar to Systran online).

It is easy to understand why Edison made a very good impact on Romanian market.

[rencke]

Thanks for your info on Edison, Catalin. Will make a new entry for them in the main post on Romania above.

>Edison offers automatic translation from English to Romanian

That is a very interesting piece of info indeed and something I have never heard of before - i.e. a local directory with automatic translation from English into the local language. I went to their homepage, but could not figure out how to make it work. Could you give me an example or some instructions?

[rencke]

The main post above has been updated with Edison.

[rencke]

The Romania discussion has been updated with new statistics reflecting the rapid growth of the web in Romania.