Search engines statistic in Germany

Is it only google in Germany?

[angiolo]

I am looking for fresh statistic regarding Germany.

I had some info that Google’s share of referral searches is about 90%.
Is it correct?

And the rest 10%?

Are Germans using google.de or google.com?

Thank you for any source..

[janharders]

[webhits.de...]
gives you a pretty good picture.

Google 88.4%
Yahoo 3.7%
T-Online 2.3%
MSN Live Search 2.0%
AOL Suche 1.0%

T-Online is a local german provider, owned by the german telecom.
Generally, I'd say germans use google.de, since google redirects to that if you ask for google.com from germany without any parameters.

[angiolo]

Thank you!

It's not so difficult to rank fine on yahoo or MSN live search German.., but I found difficult to rank fine on Google.de.

I am referring to sites in German language.
I have the impression that google.de has its own algo.....

Having a local domain and local hosting helps a lot but the algo recipe seems different compared to google.com .

[janharders]

I don't know about that since I rarely work on optimizing english pages. Our bestranking pages for competitive keywords in germany are, of course, the ones that have been around for a couple of years. We don't have a very strong incoming link base, but it seems not to hurt us. In general, I'd go for the standard on- and offpage optimization before focusing too much on specifics of google.de -- you know, there's only one rule: don't mention the war ;)

[Makaveli2007]

I'm German and living in Germany..and 90% using Google is probably an UNDERestimation ;). I think the same thing is true for France.

Also we usually use google.de, because if you're typing in Google.com and have a German IP address it seems that you get redirected to google.de anyway.

[SEOPTI]

You won't be redirected if you choose the google.com version. There was a forced redirection from google.com to google.de in place but only a short time, then they removed it.

[Makaveli2007]

I just typed in google.com and landed at google.de