NOGA 2025 · class

NOGA 63.91 Web search portal activities

Activity from the Swiss General Classification of Economic Activities (NOGA 2025), published by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). The full dataset (NACE 2.1 + ISIC 4 cross-walks) is included in Classifications (399 CHF).

Level

class

Raw code: 6391

Designation

Web search portal activities

Source · standard

NOGA 2025 · OFS / BFS · 2026

Multilingual description

NOGA 2025 provides the official designation in the four languages used by the Swiss federal authorities, alongside their European equivalents.

Language	Designation
Français (fr)	Activités de portail de recherche sur le web
Deutsch (de)	Web-Suchportale
Italiano (it)	Attività dei portali di ricerca sul web
English (en)	Web search portal activities

NOGA hierarchy

The NOGA code 63.91 sits within the following hierarchy (from broadest to most specific).

Level	Code	Designation
section	K	TELECOMMUNICATION, COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, CONSULTING, COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER INFORMATION SERVICE ACTIVITIES
division	63	Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and other information service activities
group	63.9	Web search portal activities and other information service activities
class	63.91	Web search portal activities

Direct sub-levels

This code breaks down into 1 more specific sub-level.

Level	Code	Designation
subclass	63.91.00	Web search portal activities

Official cross-walks

Equivalence of NOGA code 63.91 in the European (NACE) and international (ISIC) standards, from the official FSO and Eurostat tables.

Standard	Code	Designation	Type
NACE Rev 2.1	63.91	63.91 Web search portal activities	partial
ISIC Rev 4	6391	News agency activities	partial

Type exact = strict 1:1 equivalence. partial = partial overlap. multi = one source code maps to several target codes.

Neighbouring codes

NOGA codes close to 63.91, within the same parent group or at the same hierarchical level.

Code	Level	Designation
63.92	class	Other information service activities
64.11	class	Central banking
64.19	class	Other monetary intermediation
64.21	class	Activities of holding companies
64.22	class	Activities of financing conduits
64.31	class	Activities of money market and non-money market investments funds
64.32	class	Activities of trust, estate and agency accounts
63.10	class	Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and related activities

Activity examples

Company profiles typically classified under NOGA code 63.91.

A company whose main activity falls under "Web search portal activities" is classified under NOGA code 63.91.

This category covers service companies, firms, agencies and sole traders whose main offering matches this activity: consulting firms, professional practices and independent providers.

The code is assigned on the principle of the main economic activity: if an entity has several activities, the one generating the most value added determines the classification.

How this code is used

NOGA code 63.91 is used by the Swiss federal authorities to classify companies by their main economic activity, notably:

Federal Statistical Office (FSO): business and establishment register (BER), censuses and structural statistics.
OASI compensation funds: classification of the employer's activity at registration.
Federal Tax Administration (FTA): VAT profiling, net tax debt rates and sector statistics.
Commercial register: "activities" field when registering a new legal entity.
SUVA and accident-insurance funds: pricing of accident-insurance contributions by risk class.
SECO and labour-market statistics: sector analyses and targeted support measures.

Official source

This page reproduces information from the NOGA 2025 standard published by the Federal Statistical Office. For the official version:

bfs.admin.ch — NOGA — General Classification of Economic Activities

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