- Search.ch
search.ch is a
search engine andweb portal forSwitzerland . It was founded in1995 by Rudolf Räber and Bernhard Seefeld as a regional search engine. In the following years many other services were added, such as a phonebook in1999 , a free SMS service in2000 (now reduced to only one free SMS per week). In May2004 search.ch was acquired by theSwiss Post .Fact|date=February 2007Today, search.ch is the second most popular search engine and most popular phonebook in Switzerland. Fact|date=February 2007According the [http://wemf.ch/d/studien/macomis.shtml WEMF COMIS 2003] it has about 1.3 mio users at home and at work (about 50% of the then active internet population of Switzerland). According to the same study, search.ch is the second most popular site in Switzerland. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, which only studies home users in Switzerland, it is the fifth most popular site. Fact|date=February 2007
The search technology is home grown. The user can restrict his search to regions of Switzerland, such as a canton or a
city . Theweb crawler looks only at sites in the.ch and.li top-level domain s and a number of automatically and manually updated list of Swiss websites on other domains. The index is updated weekly.External links
* [http://www.search.ch/ search.ch]
* [http://tel.search.ch/ tel.search.ch] phonebook
* [http://map.search.ch/ map.search.ch] Swiss maps
* [http://sms.search.ch/ sms.search.ch] sms service
* [http://immo.search.ch/ immo.search.ch] immo portal search service
* [http://www.post.ch/ Swiss Post]
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