⚡ 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%.
You can also drill down by country:
🚀 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.
Rank Name Market 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 $$$
36.1%
2
Algolia
Palo Alto, California, United States A hosted search engine service that provides full-text, numeric, and faceted search with real-time results and relevance ranking for websites and applications.
Free $$$
16%
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.
Free Open source
8.1%
4
Elasticsearch
Amsterdam, Netherlands An open source, distributed, JSON-based search and analytics engine, scalable data store, and vector database built on Apache Lucene.
Free Open source $95+/month
7.8%
5
Doofinder
Madrid, Spain An e-commerce search and discovery solution that helps connect customers with relevant products on online stores.
$39+/month
6.8%
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
3.5%
7
Searchanise
San Francisco, California, United States A sophisticated website search engine for e-commerce stores.
Free $19+/month
3.4%
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
2.7%
9
Lunr
A small full-text search JavaScript library for use in the browser.
Free Open source
2.1%
10
Yandex Site Search
Moscow, Russia A customizable solution from the Russian search engine Yandex for adding search functionality to websites.
Free
2%
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
1.7%
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
1.3%
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
1.3%
14
Coveo
Quebec City, Canada An extensible cloud-based search, recommendation, and personalization platform that uses AI and machine learning.
$600+/month
1.2%
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
1.1%
16
Jetboost
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States A Webflow add-on for real-time search, dynamic filtering, sorting and pagination.
Free $24+/month
1%
17
DataparkSearch
An open-source, web-based search engine designed to index and search content across websites, intranets, and local systems.
Free Open source
1%
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
1%
19
Fuse.js
San Francisco, California, United States A powerful and lightweight JavaScript library for client-side fuzzy search.
Free Open source
1%
20
AddSearch
Helsinki, Finland An enterprise-grade site search platform featuring AI-powered answers, search personalization, smart recommendations, and a robust API.
$155+/month
0.9%
21
Typesense
Sugar Land, Texas, United States An open source in-memory fuzzy search engine.
Free Open source $21.60+/month
0.6%
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.
Free Open source
0.4%
23
Unbxd
Mumbai, India A powerful product discovery platform that includes relevant search, navigation, merchnadizing and analytics.
$$$
0.3%
24
Acquia Search
Boston, Massachusetts, United States A Solr search service delivered as a SaaS in the Acquia Cloud that enables search on Drupal websites.
$141+/month
0.3%
25
Constructor
San Francisco, California, United States An AI-powered search and product discovery platform for enterprise e-commerce brands.
$$$
0.3%
Data is based on the analysis of 3,290,096 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on
February 21, 2026 .
For details, see our
methodology and
disclaimer .