⚡ Site Search Software in South Africa

Search software allows users to locate information across websites and internal company systems by indexing content and retrieving relevant results based on queries.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our statistics, site search software is used on 1.2% of websites from South Africa.

Statistics based on 18K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top site search software in South Africa in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Google Programmable Search Engine with a share of 26.7%, followed by Athos Commerce with 18% and Doofinder with 11.1%.

Google Programmable Search Engine 26.7%
Athos Commerce 18%
Doofinder 11.1%
Algolia 9.2%
Boost 9.2%
Searchanise 6%
Elasticsearch 5.1%
Solr 5.1%
Site Search 360 2.3%
Constructor 1.4%
AddSearch 1.4%
Unbxd 1.4%
Yext 1.4%
Meilisearch 0.9%
Other 0.8%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top solutions that is more popular in South Africa than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. Athos Commerce ^(-6)
3. Doofinder ^(-2)
5. Boost ^(-1)
6. Searchanise ^(-1)
9. Site Search 360 ^(-4)
10. Constructor ^(-18)
11. AddSearch ^(-11)
12. Unbxd ^(-14)
14. Meilisearch ^(-9)
15. Fuse.js ^(-6)

✨ Best Site Search Software

Below is a more detailed list of 19 site search software solutions used on sites from South Africa, 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$$$	26.7%
2	Athos Commerce San Antonio, Texas, United States An e-commerce search, product discovery, and AI-powered personalization platform formed through the merger of Searchspring, Klevu, and Intelligent Reach under one brand. $699+/month	18%
3	Doofinder Madrid, Spain An e-commerce search and discovery solution that helps connect customers with relevant products on online stores. $39+/month	11.1%
4	Algolia Palo Alto, California, United States An AI-powered search and retrieval platform that provides full-text, numeric, and faceted search with real-time results and relevance ranking for websites and applications. Free$$$	9.2%
5	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	9.2%
6	Searchanise San Francisco, California, United States A sophisticated website search engine for e-commerce stores. Free$19+/month	6%
7	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$99+/month	5.1%
8	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	5.1%
9	Site Search 360 Dresden, Germany A cloud-based site search platform with e-commerce support, JavaScript crawling, and YouTube video indexing. Free$9+/month	2.3%
10	Constructor San Francisco, California, United States An AI-powered search and product discovery platform for enterprise e-commerce brands. $$$	1.4%
11	AddSearch Helsinki, Finland An enterprise-grade site search platform featuring AI-powered answers, search personalization, smart recommendations, and a robust API. $155+/month	1.4%
12	Unbxd Mumbai, India A powerful product discovery platform that includes relevant search, navigation, merchnadizing and analytics. $$$	1.4%
13	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	1.4%
14	Meilisearch Paris, France An open-source AI-powered hybrid search engine for applications and websites that combines keyword-based and vector-based search to retrieve results using both lexical matching and semantic similarity. FreeOpen source$30+/month	0.9%
15	Fuse.js San Francisco, California, United States A powerful and lightweight JavaScript library for client-side fuzzy search. FreeOpen source	0.9%
16	Coveo Quebec City, Canada An extensible cloud-based search, recommendation, and personalization platform that uses AI and machine learning. $600+/month	0.9%
17	Swiftype Amsterdam, Netherlands A cloud-based search platform that delivers customizable search functionality for websites, web applications, and enterprise data sources. $79+/month	0.5%
18	Jetboost Honolulu, Hawaii, United States A Webflow add-on for real-time search, dynamic filtering, sorting and pagination. Free$24+/month	0.5%
19	Typesense Sugar Land, Texas, United States An open-source in-memory fuzzy search engine. FreeOpen source$21.60+/month	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Site Search in other countries

🗃️ 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 18,135 websites from South Africa.
We currently track the presence of 34 site search software solutions across the web.
Of these, 19 were detected on websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.