[sparkinson]

Now what's the reasoning for doing something like that?

[rplnt]

My guess would be that the ad network they are using doesn't give anything for German views/hits. So they are saving on traffic costs.

If it were the case that they have some local brand (as is the case when you can't buy music/games/etc online), it would probably redirect somewhere else as Google.

[Roelven]

That's possibly the lamest and poorest user experience I've ever come across.

[ovi256]

It looks like they redirect in JS. That's after most page assests are loaded, so it won't save much bandwidth.

[rplnt]

Huh, that's true. Maybe they just don't like Germans then.