Every Saturday on AltSearchEngines we continue our jaunt Around the World in 80 weeks. We’ve been to France, Iceland, the Czech Republic, India, Yemen and Russia.

But the further we travel, the more we need bilingual volunteers to guide us to the best International search engines.  Interested?  Shoot me an email at: Charles@ReadWriteWeb.com.

Today we travel to Germany to sample the Top 10 Alternative German Search Engines! <Research done by International volunteer Miguel, not me.>

SuchClip is a general web search engine.  The index is built from users who have installed a FireFox toolbar.


icjobs is Germany’s largest job search engine based on Wikia’s semantic analysis technology.



General web search engine.  Neomo provides search technology for German portals.


Abacho is a general search engine with image search powered by picsearch, product search, translator, etc. Searches several countries.


  This is just the German version of Wikio.


Paperball is a German News search engine powered by LYCOS.




ROMSO is a News search engine with a news “matrix (related terms),” and a media presence time line.


fastbot is a Web search engine that provides the woerterbuch service. Note:See also woerterbuch.info below.

 semager is a Semantic search engine.  It provides related terms, more general or more specific terms and synonyms.  It also has a very interesting blog (in German).

A search engine for synonyms in German and English.  woerterbuch.info Also lets you hear words in German or English.  Miguel says to check this one out!