🆚 FOAF vs. OpenSearch
- 📈 OpenSearch is much more popular than FOAF.
- 🌍 OpenSearch is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ FOAF is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
OpenSearchType
Standard
Standard
About
FOAF (Friend Of A Friend) is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects.
OpenSearch is a specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.
It is implemented as a linked 
XML file and was originally developed by Amazon to make it easier for other applications to integrate their search services.
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
OpenSearch is 2,139 times more popular than FOAF.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
OpenSearch is more popular than FOAF in all countries.
United States
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
France
Ukraine
Italy
Netherlands
Spain
Poland
Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Kazakhstan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Azerbaijan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Uzbekistan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the Dominican Republic in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Tajikistan in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
OpenSearch is more popular than FOAF in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Public Information
Internet Services
General News
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Amazon company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.