⚡ Search Engines

Search engine technologies used on websites help users quickly find relevant content by providing full-text search, autocomplete, faceted navigation, typo tolerance, and result ranking. Some are specifically designed for e-commerce and support specialized features such as product filtering, dynamic recommendations, and personalized results based on user behavior.

According to our statistics, search engine technologies are used on 1.9% of all websites.
97.7% of these sites use only one search engine technology, 2.3% use two.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading search engine technologies in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Google Programmable Search Engine with an impressive share of 36.1%, followed by Algolia with 16% and Solr with 8.1%.

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of technologies that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best Search Engine Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 30 search engine technologies we track, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
Google Programmable Search Engine
Mountain View, California, United States

A platform that lets users create a custom search engine for a website or a collection of websites.

Free$$$
2
Algolia
Palo Alto, California, United States

A hosted search engine service that provides full-text, numeric, and faceted search with real-time results and relevance ranking for websites and applications.

Free$$$
3
Solr
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

An open-source enterprise search server built on the Apache Lucene information retrieval library that provides full-text, faceted, and geospatial search over HTTP APIs.

FreeOpen source
4
Elasticsearch
Amsterdam, Netherlands

An open source, distributed, JSON-based search and analytics engine, scalable data store, and vector database built on Apache Lucene.

FreeOpen source$95+/month
5
Doofinder
Madrid, Spain

An e-commerce search and discovery solution that helps connect customers with relevant products on online stores.

$39+/month
6
Boost
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

An AI-powered search and discovery solution for Shopify stores that improves product findability and browsing by enhancing site search, filters, recommendations, and merchandising.

$29+/month
7
Searchanise
San Francisco, California, United States

A sophisticated website search engine for e-commerce stores.

Free$19+/month
8
Athos Commerce
San Antonio, Texas, United States

An e-commerce search, product discovery, and AI-powered personalization platform formed through the merger of Searchspring, Klevu, and Intelligent Reach under one brand.

$699+/month
9
Lunr

A small full-text search JavaScript library for use in the browser.

FreeOpen source
10
Yandex Site Search
Moscow, Russia

A customizable solution from the Russian search engine Yandex for adding search functionality to websites.

Free
11
Yext
New York, United States

A cloud-based digital experience platform that includes listings management, generative AI and SEO tools, a natural language search engine and analytics.

$499+/year
12
Site Search 360
Dresden, Germany

A cloud-based site search platform with e-commerce support, JavaScript crawling, and YouTube video indexing.

Free$9+/month
13
Clerk.io
Copenhagen, Denmark

An AI-powered e-commerce personalization platform that helps web stores sell more through intelligent search and targeted product recommendations.

$119+/month
14
Coveo
Quebec City, Canada

An extensible cloud-based search, recommendation, and personalization platform that uses AI and machine learning.

$600+/month
15
Salesfire
Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

A UK-based conversion rate optimization platform providing AI-powered personalization, on-site search, and behavioral messaging campaigns.

£150+/month
16
Jetboost
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

A Webflow add-on for real-time search, dynamic filtering, sorting and pagination.

Free$24+/month
17
DataparkSearch

An open-source, web-based search engine designed to index and search content across websites, intranets, and local systems.

FreeOpen source
18
Cludo
Copenhagen, Denmark

A cloud-based, AI-powered site search and content enablement solution that also analyzes how your visitors interact with content.

$399+/month
19
Fuse.js
San Francisco, California, United States

A powerful and lightweight JavaScript library for client-side fuzzy search.

FreeOpen source
20
AddSearch
Helsinki, Finland

An enterprise-grade site search platform featuring AI-powered answers, search personalization, smart recommendations, and a robust API.

$155+/month
21
Typesense
Sugar Land, Texas, United States

An open source in-memory fuzzy search engine.

FreeOpen source$21.60+/month
22
Pagefind
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

A fully static JavaScript search library that aims to perform well on large sites while using as little bandwidth as possible.

FreeOpen source
23
Unbxd
Mumbai, India

A powerful product discovery platform that includes relevant search, navigation, merchnadizing and analytics.

$$$
24
Acquia Search
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

A Solr search service delivered as a SaaS in the Acquia Cloud that enables search on Drupal websites.

$141+/month
25
Constructor
San Francisco, California, United States

An AI-powered search and product discovery platform for enterprise e-commerce brands.

$$$
Data is based on the analysis of 3,290,096 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.