French-Language
Search Engines
[moteurs de recherche]
You can translate French-language pages or paragraphs by visitingAltaVista's free BabelFish service (click on the fish)
You can also use BabelFish to translate each element of data
for a submission page from English into French.
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AngloFrance bills itself as "The Network of English-Speakers Exchanging Information about France: A Guide for Visitors and Expats in France and Info Seekers around the World." Paid advertising available (3000 unique visitors a month), but they accept free entries in their directory. The free add page also offers Extra Links placement at €10 per month. | |||
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Société Antidot {formerly AntiSearch} restricts URL submissions to French-language content only. The database is used by LaPoste.net, WebCity.FR, CityVox.com, alifax.FR, and others. | |||
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BonWeb's slogan is 'right to the best sites'. Their add URL is free & easy, and the lower link provides a page translated into English via BabelFish. | |||
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Canada.com is now a meta-search engine, and they advise adding your site/page URL to each engine individually (which they provide links for). Under pressure from the Québécois, Canada requires businesses to provide bilingual English-French services. This engine does have a French-language search option – Recherche Avancé en Français, but the results are the same as from the English search page. | |||
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The La Toile – 'The Fabric' – search engine is strictly French-language, with emphasis on Québec in Canada. The hard-to-find submit site page displays 3 options which do not translate well in Babelfish: the 'Travailleurs autonomes' (independent business people) and the personal homepage options are free, while the 'Répertoire principal' (general directory) option has an Express for-fee option (inclusion in 7 days) and a free option that takes up to 12 weeks. Submissions are reviewed by humans; inclusion is not guaranteed; text may be modified; the FAQ pages go into more detail. | |||
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The France Moteur search engine has a free add URL page, but they ask in return that you install a Java script that puts a small popup window on the top left of your page (you can see Earl's up there already). The free add appears to be for each page; the Title box is too short, the description is limited to 30 words, and the add URL page does not work inside BabelFish. Submissions are reviewed by a human, and confirmed by email.
The Belgique Moteur site is related, but the add URL function is for-fee only; the €1,12 cost is about US$1.20 (higher for other countries) and payment is by phone. |
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The Francité all-French site has a free add URL function, which posts to 15 engines. You must drill down to a Category, then fill out the boxes. After the page is added, the bottom of the page includes a link to directly submit the same information to Voila (which spiders your entire site: do this just once) and-or NetScan and-or Google Canada. (Tip: Cut&paste the Francité category page URL into BabelFish above: BabelFish translates each subsequent page into the language you requested.) | by category | ||
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Godado of France is powered by Northern Light and provides searches in French, German, Spanish, English & Italian. URL submission is by keyword bidding. | |||
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Google remains the most popular search engine, and while they use ODP, there is also an 'add URL' submission page. They have many discrete search sites by country & language, each of which offers paid submission options. But the free submission to the main Google add URL function is still the best deal: the spider checks your entire website from your entry of the domain URL. |
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Ixquick includes a Debriefing option for French-language search. They suggest submitting your URLs to each of the dozen major search engines that they look at =OR= you can pay them for either a one-time or monthly submission service. Ixquick also has the Spotlight option, a variation on keyword bidding: you can 'rent' a keyword for as little as $25 per year. (So the obvious option is to bid on French words.) | |||
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Reacteur – 'the engine' – is an all-French search engine, very fast, with good results. Unfortunately, the only means for inclusion is thru the for-fee Brioude referral service. | |||
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Tiscali has taken over Ecila and Nomade.fr, and they receive over 3 million visitors a month; results are pulled from the FAST database. The entire site is French-language only, so many of you may need to utilize the BabelFish link at top. (The Tiscali website actually says 'Bon surf!') |
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Submission to Voila is also posted to the Wanadoo portal site; submissions are reviewed by humans. [NOTE: The free submission does not work inside the BabelFish frame.] Voila's basic 'Soumission Express' service costs €199 including tax. |
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