Search Engines

Parent Category: Widgets

A search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web searches, which means to search a target website or the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query.


We have discovered 8,359,490 live websites that use Search Engines.

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Search Engines usage statistics

Total sites that use Search Engines8,359,490 websites
Percentage of website that use category10.35%
Number of technologies in Search Engines category117
Category leader Sitelinks search box
Fastest Growing Technology Sitelinks search box
Most Popular in Country United States



Top Technologies

Top 6 technologies in Search Engines category (out of 117 total).
TechnologyWebsitesMarket ShareRecent changes
Sitelinks search box8,077,776 96.63% +40,864
Google Programmable Search Engine107,261 1.28% -1,601
Ivory Search42,393 0.51% +746
Algolia35,679 0.43% -1,881
Lunr19,533 0.23% +14
Elasticsearch17,367 0.21% +1,261
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Top technology switches

Number of websites that switched technologies within category in the past 3 months

FromToWebsite Count
Boost Commerce Sitelinks search box115
Google Programmable Search Engine Sitelinks search box67
Sitelinks search box Fuse.js49
Sitelinks search box Ivory Search44
Algolia Sitelinks search box39
Ivory Search Sitelinks search box32

Search Engines usage distribution by website rank

The correlation between utilization of Search Engines technologies and the relative popularity of websites

Geographical Distribution

Category usage distribution by websites across the globe.



Websites utilizing Search Engines

Top websites that use Search Engines
DomainCountryRankContacts
developers.google.com United States11
www.pinterest.com United States32
www.afternic.com Netherlands52
cdnjs.com United States61
vimeo.com United States67
wordpress.com United States68
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