“KennstDuEinen.de” launched at the beginning of December, offering another recommendation platform for local services in Germany.

Here one is able to find, according to the website, the top professionals in the area.  In contrast to similar offerings such as Qype, the stated strength of this new Web 2.0 Portal is especially the search for professionals such as doctors, craftsmen/handymen, lawyers and tax-consultants, and their rating.

Another difference is that the users are unable to post their own entries, but rather only comment and rate the search results.  These results are generated mainly using local search engine suchen.de, belonging to t-info. “The portal suchen.de has probably the best databank in Germany, when it comes to local service providers”, said Carsten Schmidt, one of the two directors of KennstDuEinen, in a press release.  The search results provide the user not only a rating and contact details, but also the location shown on a city plan.  A route planner is not provided at the moment.

As to be expected from a new service, there are few ratings to be discovered at this early stage.  Those who would like to add their recommendations must be registered users for this portal.  By adding comments and notes, the user helps not only other users in making qualified choices, but also can do a good turn through posting a suggestion – for every rating made, one can choose a charitable organization, to which KennstDuEine will donate Euro 2.