🆚 CGI vs. SearchAction

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 SearchAction is much more popular than CGI.
🌍 SearchAction is more popular in all countries.

Type

Standard

Semantic markup technology

About

Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.

SearchAction is a structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.

Before November 2024, it was used by Google to enable the "Sitelinks Search Box" feature, which displayed a search bar for a website directly within the search results snippet. However, since Google deprecated this feature, there is no evidence that other search engines or apps currently support it.

Headquarters

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

rfc-editor.org #66,537

schema.org/SearchAction #99,288

Categories

Standards › Rank #23

Standards › Rank #7

Semantic Markup › Rank #6

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

SearchAction semantic markup technology is 38 times more popular than CGI.

Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

SearchAction is more popular than CGI in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Spain

Italy

Australia

Netherlands

Japan

Canada

Awards

🔥 13rd most popular in Palestine in the Standards category.
🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
🔥 14th most popular in Nigeria in the Standards category.
🔥 14th most popular in Nepal in the Standards category.
🔥 14th most popular in Tunisia in the Standards category.

⭐ 4th most popular in Vietnam in the Standards category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Ukraine in the Standards category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Belarus in the Standards category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Monaco in the Standards category.
⭐ 5th most popular in France in the Semantic Markup category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

SearchAction is more popular than CGI in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Travel

Entertainment

Health

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

gist.github.com

#2,245

#2,723

#2,731

#2,801

Name

Rank

#8

#15

#17

p**nhub.com

#26

#46

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