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Germany - Deutschland. Search engines.
German directories are found here [webmasterworld.com].
Fact sheet [odci.gov]
Domain(s): de
Online population: 15,9 million (July 2000)
Native language(s): German
Understanding of English: Very high
Hosts in domain: 1,9 million (Jul 2000)
Pages in language: 9,9 million (Sep 2000, all domains)
Pages in domain: 9,6 million (Sep 2000, all languages)
Local presence required for domain registration: Yes
Multiple domains allowed: Yes
Professional help: See bottom of page
Known general search engines:
Abacho [abacho.com]
Language interface: German Traffic volume: ? Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? Search technology: ? Meta description used in search replies: No, only title
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: Some Keyword in title: Yes Keyword in description: Yes Keyword in meta keywords: ? Keyword in header: Yes Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: Keyword density is important. Update reported to be very fast.
Abadoor [abadoor.com]
Language interface: German Traffic volume: ? Local language(s) required: No Local domain(s) only: No Search technology: ? Meta description used in search replies: yes
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: Yes Keyword in title: Yes Keyword in description: Yes Keyword in meta keywords: Yes Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: Onle one page per domain, will not spider others. Similar to directory. Other: Max url length: 42 characters. Maximum 12 pages per domain.
Acoon [acoon.de]
Language interface: German Traffic volume: ? 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: yes Local domain: No Keyword in URL: Yes Keyword in title: Yes Keyword in description: Yes Keyword in meta keywords: Yes Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: No Other: Keyword density is the most important factor. Flooding and repetition observed to be accepted.
Altavista Deutschland [de.altavista.com]
Language interface: German Traffic volume: ? Local language(s) required: No Local domain(s) only: No Search technology: AltaVista
Meta description used in search replies: YesThings that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: Yes Keyword in title: Yes Keyword in description: Yes Keyword in meta keywords: Yes Keyword in header: Yes Keyword in 1st paragraph: Yes Other: Link popularity. Theme based indexing. Date: Older better.
AOL [aol.de]
Language interface: German Traffic volume: 3,9 mill page views/month 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: ?
Belissima - see Abacho
Columbus finder discontinued.
Crawler.de [crawler.de] see Abacho
Excite [excite.de]
Language interface: German Traffic volume: 15 mill page views/month 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: ?
Fireball [fireball.de]
Language interface: German Traffic volume: 10,8 mill pageviews/month (research)/30 mill (own figures) Local language(s) required: Yes Local domain(s) only: No Search technology: Altavista
Meta description used in search replies: Yes Things that help ranking: Local language: Mandatory Local domain: No Keyword in URL: Yes, big. Keyword in title: Yes, boost if title=url. Keyword in description: Yes Keyword in meta keywords: No Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: No Other: Fireball reads additional meta tags indicating a.o. language, audience and subject. Info in help pages. Likes high keyword density and newer pages before older. Frequent submssion important. Links and link text important. Will index framed pages even if noframes tag i missing. Does not give preference to de-domain, ch and at work just as well. Submitted pages in index within 48 hours. "Spammers paradise".
Infoseek [infoseek.de]
Language interface: German Traffic volume: Germany's #1 search engine with 30.8 mill page views/month + traffic from T-online Local language(s) required: Yes Local domain(s) only: No Search technology: ? Meta description used in search replies: Yes, and keywords too.
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: ? Keyword in URL: Yes Keyword in title: Yes Keyword in description: Not much Keyword in meta keywords: yes Keyword in header: yes Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: Also on main page of T-online, Germany's leading portal with 47,6 mill page visits/month.
Lotse - see Speedfind
Nathan [nathan.de]
Language interface: German 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: ?
Lycos Deutschland [lycos.de]
Language interface: German Traffic volume: 36,6 mill page views/month Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: No Search technology: Direct Hit + Fast Meta description used in search replies: No
Things that help ranking: Local language: ? Local domain: no Keyword in URL: Yes Keyword in title: Yes Keyword in description: No Keyword in meta keywords: No Keyword in header: Yes Keyword in 1st paragraph: Yes Other: Kwd on ALT-tags. Kwd location: High preferred. First three results from own directory, following 5-6 from DirectHit, rest from spidered index, a change to Fast is expected, but not implemented per Dec 1, 2000.
MSN [msn.de]
Language interface: German Traffic volume: 3,4 million page views/month 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: ?
Speedfind [speedfind.de]
Language interface: German Traffic volume: ? Local language(s) required: No Local domain(s) only: No Search technology: Own Meta description used in search replies: Yes, one line description, one line keywords, several line text from page.
Things that help ranking: Local language: Yes Local domain: Yes Keyword in URL: No Keyword in title: Yes Keyword in description: Yes Keyword in meta keywords: Yes Keyword in header: ? Keyword in 1st paragraph: ? Other: ?
Tigersuche [tigersuche.de]
Language interface: German Traffic volume: ? Local language(s) required: ? Local domain(s) only: ? Search technology: Oen spidered index supplemented by secondary results from Altavista, Fast, Fireball and Google. 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: ?
Local people who can help with translations and advise:
Ulrich Wisser, luna-park GmBH. Traffic analyses, SEO and translations into German. u.wisser@luna-park.de This area will be updated with e-mail and/or web addresses to translators and SEO specialists, who have posted a reply in this discussion. Please state your name, web and/or e-mail address, languages to/from and what you can help out with. Prices and promotional stuff will be edited out.
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Updated March 13, 2001
Edited by: rencke
<<The figure for Infoseek does not seem to include traffic from T-online. Another 47 million pageviews(?).>>
Not all traffic from T-online ends on infoseek. Only if you search on T-online, your visit appear in this statistic.
This is quite unusual in Europe. Almost all national search engines rank pages in their own domain higher than other pages in the language. Since Germany requries local presence for registration in the de-domain and Switzerland does not, a ch-domain would be a really easy way for a foreign site to get their German pages into Fireball. Quite an important find. Or do you think a .com would work just as well?
Do you know if this applies to other German SE:s too, or if it is only Fireball?
As to "Geschichte". In my school-days we were given German books to read with titles like "Geschichte aus dem Schwarzwald" and "Das Leiden des jungen Werther". So I developed a rather romantic view of German literature. Either it has changed in the decades that have gone, or they didn't tell us everything in school.
fireball.de
google.de
altavista.de
abacho.de
acoon.de
speedfind.de
infoseek.de
If it comes to most competetive single keyword searches, I believe a .de-keyword domain helps a lot or is kind of mandatory for top results.
PS: nobody knows "all" the tricks, that`s the reason we reading this lovely forum :>
Making note to self: Avoid coming down with any neurological disorder while in Munich. The local clinic has a doctor who calls himself Schlitzer.
Quite unique feature. Here you can adjust the weight of each individual parameter. However, the question about the default adjustment with their standard search option remains unclear. But I think it is reasonable to assume that Abacho put some weight to Meta descr. and KWs, concerning the standard search option, even it might be minimal.
As posted above I am pleased with my Abacho/crawler.de and speedfind.de/lotse.de rankings. But......I don`t get any significant traffic from them. May be there are some Meta SEs, which consider their database. However, according to my experience these SEs are not really worth to bother.
Heini, what are your experiences with lycos.de. Is it true that they update their database every 6 months only? Yes, lycos.de drives me to despair. Thank you.
regarding Lycos.de,
weīve got some pages in their index, but unfortunately did this happen in summer last year, during their big update. Meanwhile I am not quite sure if there was an update in january, because we lost some pages or if this has to do with the switch to another index (of FAST, I am not sure if this has happend right now).
but itīs a good signal that seems to show changes were happening.
also the links are different, before this date there was a redirect to count the clicks on the listings(like directhit does - okay, it might be that it was like that because lycos used the directhit results/software untill this day)
now these redirect is gone, and with it our test-pages. also the relevance lycos assumed this page has regarding to your search is gone (no percent-numbers), just as the first results I guessed which came from direct-hit.
so there happened something but I donīt now what and why.
Interesting is (after you click the I-agree-button) that now - I didnīt notice that before - above the results it is showed the big banner of private.com - I thought that would not happen to us Germans due to the laws concerning porn-content.
BTW: On the homepage from Lycos.de there is a FAST-logo since months, but I missed the results of FAST. I thought Lycos.de would only use the software, but now I am sure that itīs the same db.
Yes, I noticed, too, that some searches return no results. It seems that it doesnīt have a good connection to the FAST-index (time out?).
Lycos.no = new name for spray.no, some of the images are picked up from spray and this can be seen when the page loads. But lycos.no is still powered by DirectHit, not by Fast. Wonder if Kvasir.no might have an exclusive license?
Conclusion. Today is roll-out day for the new Lycos.de and they had some temporary problems, now gone. Agree?
Seems we should wait before we try to figure out what happens.
I assume the fresh results are pages which were respidered. I didnīt hear anything about that IS got into its index recently, but I know -from our logfiles- that IS does respider pages which are already in its index. Since end of november there must be a new filter to hinder spam-submissions.
Only once a new submitted page has been spidered, but it didnīt get into the index. I really donīt know why not, but I would guess that the keyword-densitiy of my page is too high (about 9%). Unfortunately I cannot prove that due to the lack of getting in its index.
Our last page which got into the index appears at the 20th of nov. After that date only respidering happened.
Have any stats on...
[meta.rrzn.uni-hannover.de...]
How many people use it and/or how popular it is?
I notice that it's set up like a typical meta search engine with results from various sources.
I pull quite a number of referrals from there so it seems like pretty well known engine.
They are surely not my largest provider - Lycos.de is my favourite for the moment :)
