Like most of Google’s initiatives, is it an electricity bill issue – in that don’t go out of their way to offer complex reporting templates because they don’t want the additional server strain offering these would bring?

If you want to track whether the traffic is coming directly from google.de though then I’m not too sure on that one, it sounds like a job for filters though – this filter guide from Yoast could most likely be hacked into a bit to track international versions of Google rather than Google’s image search (although I’ve not tried so don’t take my word for it!)

There are as many uses for complex, international eCommerce sites for GA as there are for blogs that you mention. (btw: i love GA)

… do you know of an easy way to split search engine traffic by region – i.e. google.co.uk, google.de etc. ? this is the only query i have ever had that i wan’t sure if i could do