Google abroad

google search engine abroad?

[JamesR]

Seeing a steady increase in traffic from google.de, google.fr, google.it, google.co.uk, google.ch, google.co.jp, google.nl etc..

Anyone else having good luck with these?

[msgraph]

Yes and also from the countries that don't have google.xx but Google-powered portals. Starting to come across a lot of them these days.

[satanclaus]

Same here. A noticable amount of traffic from google.*

[heini]

Google is on a steady rise throughout Europe.
In Germany it's search destination #1, making german the second most used language in queries to Google.
There have been numerous observations in the Euro forum on Google becoming referrer #1.

Google's rise is connected to a general advancement in internet usage patterns in western European countries. Google users are much more likely to search to do worldwide searches than Lycos, MSN or Yahoo users.
Here is a good discussion on the relation between US and local versions [webmasterworld.com] of major SEs.

It's not surprising that Google opens an office in Hamburg, to be followed by offices in Italy, France and Netherlands [webmasterworld.com] first half 2002.

Don't forget: Europe just outgrew the US by numbers of internet users. Hopefully you will see much more of those referals in the near future.

[Marcia]

I've gotten one lone hit from some site in Spain powered by Google search engine :)

[4eyes]

Yeah - we just noticed the same thing on our big traffic clients. Loads of google.de and a few other regions as well.

Usually the keywords relate to product names (ie that translate the same). Sadly this client doesn't sell outside the UK - but otherwise this is great information to persuade clients to have pages translated.

[IanTurner]

Same here getting plenty of Google.de and .ch some from other Euro Googles.

[instand1]

google.de gets 58% searches in Germany (as of a large sample of log-files analysed in October 2002). Since Yahoo.de gets 10% and web.de gets 3% (both feed in Google-results after their own directory results) this amounts to 71% of the total traffic on German searches in search engines.