Schnitzelmitkartoffelsalat
Schnitzelmitkartoffelsalat (German:
Schnitzelwithpotatosalad) is a German phrase that is used to test the
operations of search engines and the methods of
search engine optimization. It was
first mentioned on November 15, 2002 by Steffi Abel in the newsgroup
de.comm.infosystems.www.authoring.misc. It was an arbitrary phrase that
had not appeared in the Google index up to that point.
The goal was to examine the way Google read different types of HTML
construction. Eventually, it became used in an unofficial contest to see
which sites could receive the higher rankings. It has also become a
synonym for expressions that cannot yet be found in
search engine indexes.
A new expression in an April 2005 contest is Hommingberger
Gepardenforelle.
Results in different search engines
- with Viv?imo (ca. 2,621 results)
- with alltheweb (ca. 2,820 results)
- with Google (ca. 18,500 results)
- with AltaVista (ca. 3,800 results)
(As of July 2005)