Search engine (computing)

Quality:

Search engine - system to help searching for information. Article "Search engine (computing)" in English Wikipedia has 30.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 16 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6392^nd most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article "Search engine (computing)", its content was written by 707 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3157 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6392^nd place).

The article is cited 157 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5898 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #242 in June 2004
• Global: #165 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #38499 in June 2008
• Global: #5016 in January 2008

There are 40 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Suchmaschine		48.7585
2	Italian (it) Motore di ricerca		47.1007
3	Basque (eu) Bilaketa motor		44.5508
4	Catalan (ca) Motor de cerca		37.7103
5	Serbian (sr) Pretraživač (računarstvo)		36.9525
6	Hebrew (he) מנוע חיפוש		31.0954
7	Hindi (hi) खोज इंजन		31.0797
8	English (en) Search engine (computing)		30.4746
9	French (fr) Moteur de recherche		28.6889
10	Swedish (sv) Söktjänst		27.1328

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Suchmaschine		3 833 065
2	French (fr) Moteur de recherche		3 641 290
3	Italian (it) Motore di ricerca		1 581 371
4	English (en) Search engine (computing)		1 182 630
5	Portuguese (pt) Motor de busca		1 019 685
6	Chinese (zh) 搜索引擎		816 075
7	Arabic (ar) محرك بحث (حوسبة)		672 051
8	Thai (th) เสิร์ชเอนจิน		570 885
9	Dutch (nl) Zoekmachine		487 798
10	Romanian (ro) Motor de căutare		464 959

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Suchmaschine		4 667
2	English (en) Search engine (computing)		3 918
3	French (fr) Moteur de recherche		3 831
4	Chinese (zh) 搜索引擎		2 716
5	Italian (it) Motore di ricerca		1 806
6	Portuguese (pt) Motor de busca		1 046
7	Hindi (hi) खोज इंजन		762
8	Thai (th) เสิร์ชเอนจิน		732
9	Uzbek (uz) Qidiruv tizimi		636
10	Dutch (nl) Zoekmachine		634

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Search engine (computing)		707
2	German (de) Suchmaschine		471
3	French (fr) Moteur de recherche		383
4	Italian (it) Motore di ricerca		231
5	Dutch (nl) Zoekmachine		186
6	Portuguese (pt) Motor de busca		137
7	Hebrew (he) מנוע חיפוש		123
8	Norwegian (no) Søkemotor		86
9	Hindi (hi) खोज इंजन		82
10	Persian (fa) موتور جستجو (پردازش)		60

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Suchmaschine		6
2	French (fr) Moteur de recherche		1
3	Norwegian (no) Søkemotor		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Motor de busca		1
5	Arabic (ar) محرك بحث (حوسبة)		0
6	Belarusian (be) Пошукавая машына		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Търсачка		0
8	Catalan (ca) Motor de cerca		0
9	Czech (cs) Vyhledávač		0
10	Danish (da) Søgemaskine		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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