Says who?

Actually there are many English/German cognates.

The only difference in the charachter set is the a,o,u with an umlaut and the double s

The only question I would have is whether Germans actually type the a,o,u with an umlaut or would they they just type ae, oe, ue (or ss for the double s), or even for SEO purposes, whether it even matters. I think Webnauts would know the answer to that one.

Other than that the only reason why I would think they would be typing in English phrases is because they happen to be highly bi-lingual in English and for whatever reason are searching beyond the results they found in German.

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