search.ch
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| Swiss information portal and search engine | |
| languages | German |
| operator | localsearch |
| editorial staff | localsearch |
| Registration | optional |
| On-line | 1996 (currently online) |
| https://www.search.ch | |
search.ch is a Swiss search engine owned by Swisscom and Tamedia for information about Switzerland. The site is also available as a mobile app for Android and IOS . It has existed since 1996.
offer
The offer includes:
- a phone book with entries for private individuals, companies and authorities in Switzerland
- a weather overview with current weather forecasts for individual regions of Switzerland and a snow report for winter sports or appropriate precautionary measures.
- a digital map of Switzerland with a route plan function
- an overview of the timetables for public transport in Switzerland
- as well as an overview of the television and cinema programs .
In addition, the website also offers a regular web search engine that allows you to filter by regions in Switzerland, but the range of functions is kept to a very minimal level. In the past, the site also contained an advertising portal , for example for job advertisements, cars and real estate, a free SMS service and other functions.
Statistics and data
The site is operated by localsearch with its headquarters in Zurich , which belongs to Swisscom Directories AG, in which Swisscom owns 69% and Tamedia 31% of the shares.
Together with the local.ch site, which has been merging more strongly with search.ch since 2015, localsearch receives over 7.3 million unique visits from different devices per month and more than 42 million individual visits per month. The use of the mobile variants is increasing sharply. The apps from local.ch and search.ch are among the most popular apps in Switzerland.
history
The site has existed since 1995 and was originally a pure web search engine for Switzerland, developed by Rudolf Räber and Bernhard Seefeld. Later it developed more and more into an information and address portal that competed with the local.ch site, which became more and more successful over time. There was therefore great interest in a merger between the two sides. According to an article in the Handelszeitung , Tamedia planned to take over parts of PubliGroupeSA for CHF 350 million in April 2014 . In May 2014 it became known that PubliGroupe SA / Swisscom (PubliGroupe has been owned by Swisscom since September 5, 2014 ) and Tamedia AG want to bring the companies local.ch and search.ch into a joint subsidiary. After review by the competition commission , the deal was approved in 2015 and a merger planned for the middle of the year. Together they want to work together to withstand the international competitive pressure of the major search engines and social networks. Entries in the telephone directories have been free of charge since 2018.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Swisscom and Tamedia want to develop directory services together. In: www.swisscom.ch. May 28, 2014, accessed January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Swisscom announces complete takeover of Swisscom Directories AG (localsearch). In: www.swisscom.ch. December 19, 2018, accessed January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Wayback Machine. August 1, 1996, accessed September 3, 2018 .
- ↑ search.ch. Retrieved September 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Search the Swiss web - search.ch. Retrieved September 3, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d search.ch Update: Many new functions . In: presseportal.ch . ( presseportal.ch [accessed on September 3, 2018]).
- ↑ a b Economy - Google competition? “Search.ch” and “local.ch” are allowed to merge . In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) . March 24, 2015 ( srf.ch [accessed on September 3, 2018]).
- ↑ Net-Metrix Profile 2018-1: News portals are increasing in mobile usage . In: persoenlich.com . ( persoenlich.com [accessed September 3, 2018]).
- ↑ search.ch AG. Retrieved September 4, 2018 (UK English).
- ↑ "Local.ch understands business, unlike Search.ch" - Handelszeitung . In: Handelszeitung . ( handelszeitung.ch [accessed on September 3, 2018]).
- ↑ Swisscom completes public takeover of PubliGroupe SA | Swisscom. In: www.swisscom.ch. September 5, 2014, accessed January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Local.ch / Search.ch: Directory entries for households will be free of charge from 2018 . In: https://www.horizont.net . ( horizont.net [accessed September 3, 2018]).
- ↑ Localsearch: Private entry will soon cost nothing more . In: persoenlich.com . ( persoenlich.com [accessed September 3, 2018]).
- ↑ All private entries are free of charge at localsearch . In: presseportal.ch . ( presseportal.ch [accessed on September 3, 2018]).