Which are the leading search engines in Europe?

[genny]

Hi,

Can anyone give me the list of leading portals and search engines for countries in Europe like Italy, Spain, UK, Irland, Scotland, Germany, France, Norway, Denemark, Sweden, Greece.

[philaweb]

More search engines with own bots:

Europe: mirago.com
Czech republic: jyxo.cz

[mack]

why would yell.com crawl when they only accept paid sugested listings? Not only web sites but business listing in general?

Mack.

[kservik]

I recently did a check for my own and client sites in Norway and found this to be the marketshare (in Norwegian):

Google - 71,9% *
MSN - 23,4%
Yahoo - 3,9%

*Numbers include (Kvasir/Eniro/SOL).

Kim

[edited by: Rumbas at 7:17 am (utc) on July 6, 2005]
[edit reason] fixed formatting [/edit]

[iqbal]

Hi ,

You can also look at [objectssearch.com...] which covers quite a few countries too.

[edited by: Rumbas at 2:17 pm (utc) on July 6, 2005]

[MatejN]

In Slovenia:
najdi.si

Directories:
matkurja.si

Meta Search Engine:
Oloplan.si

[redaarchitect]

Hi for french world
1guide.net : french
voila.fr : francophone world
mozbot.fr :french (using Google search but adding some option like define and suggest )

[Giacomo]

In Italy, the most important are:

Arianna/Libero (own crawler, results enhanced by Google)
[arianna.libero.it...]

Virgilio (own crawler+directory, results enhanced by Google?)
[virgilio.it...]

Other major SE's/portals are listed by traffic here:
[motoridiricerca.it...]

[jmccormac]

From five years of running search engines, I don't think that any small, country level search engine can survive purely as a search play. Most have to have an associated directory. The technical costs of running a search engine are lower but the marketing costs are probably even higher now.

Just on the Scottish search engine side of things, it would be possible to build a Scottish search engine, but the above search hybrid idea would apply. At least with a Scottish search engine, the Gaelic [1] is understandable even if the accent is a bit strange. :)

Regards...jmcc
[1] Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic are two flavours of the same language.

[Rumbas]

If you missed it, Blackie got some good stats from Russia over here [webmasterworld.com]

[albert]

Germany:

Google 70-75%
Yahoo 15-18%
MSN 5-10%

[ThomasB]

albert, where did you get these numbers from? I can't really confirm them as Google is more in the 85% and Yahoo! in the 5% area.

http://www.etracker.de/globalstat.php
http://www.webhits.de/deutsch/index.shtml?webstats.html

[zelator777]

Hi,
in my country Bulgaria:

dir.bg
gbg.bg
all.bg
hit.bg
data.bg

I suppose only dir.bg is accessible from outside beacause of the good ip nat...talking about yahoo,google and msn,Google is most popular,Yahoo also much but not so and MSN a very little

Best,