String-searching algorithm

String-searching algorithm - algorithm which searches for patterns within strings. Article “String-searching algorithm” in English Wikipedia has 39.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 references and 17 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “String-searching algorithm”, its content was written by 167 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 392 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 142 times in English Wikipedia and cited 384 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3893 in October 2001
• Global: #4080 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #76891 in April 2016
• Global: #111021 in September 2013

There are 18 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, 2026 (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	English (en) String-searching algorithm		39.5684
2	French (fr) Algorithme de recherche de sous-chaîne		37.1113
3	Korean (ko) 문자열 검색 알고리즘		30.7353
4	Spanish (es) Algoritmos de búsqueda de subcadenas		29.5385
5	Hebrew (he) אלגוריתמים לחיפוש מחרוזות		27.7277
6	Turkish (tr) Dizi arama algoritması		27.2035
7	Arabic (ar) خوارزمية بحث في سلسلة محارف		23.6033
8	German (de) String-Matching-Algorithmus		21.7017
9	Italian (it) Algoritmo di pattern matching su stringhe		17.7464
10	Persian (fa) الگوریتم جستجوی رشته		17.5778

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "String-searching algorithm" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) String-searching algorithm		1 743 907
2	German (de) String-Matching-Algorithmus		175 547
3	Japanese (ja) 文字列探索		91 529
4	French (fr) Algorithme de recherche de sous-chaîne		84 959
5	Chinese (zh) 字串搜尋演算法		62 049
6	Indonesian (id) Algoritma pencarian string		59 826
7	Italian (it) Algoritmo di pattern matching su stringhe		30 718
8	Spanish (es) Algoritmos de búsqueda de subcadenas		28 668
9	Ukrainian (uk) Алгоритм пошуку рядка		15 399
10	Turkish (tr) Dizi arama algoritması		14 558

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "String-searching algorithm" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) String-searching algorithm		1 867
2	German (de) String-Matching-Algorithmus		281
3	Chinese (zh) 字串搜尋演算法		98
4	French (fr) Algorithme de recherche de sous-chaîne		82
5	Japanese (ja) 文字列探索		57
6	Spanish (es) Algoritmos de búsqueda de subcadenas		34
7	Italian (it) Algoritmo di pattern matching su stringhe		22
8	Persian (fa) الگوریتم جستجوی رشته		19
9	Serbian (sr) Algoritam za pretragu niski		18
10	Finnish (fi) Merkkijonohakualgoritmi		14

More...

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

Language versions of the article "String-searching algorithm" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) String-searching algorithm		167
2	German (de) String-Matching-Algorithmus		64
3	French (fr) Algorithme de recherche de sous-chaîne		46
4	Japanese (ja) 文字列探索		21
5	Italian (it) Algoritmo di pattern matching su stringhe		12
6	Persian (fa) الگوریتم جستجوی رشته		10
7	Hebrew (he) אלגוריתמים לחיפוש מחרוזות		9
8	Indonesian (id) Algoritma pencarian string		8
9	Chinese (zh) 字串搜尋演算法		8
10	Finnish (fi) Merkkijonohakualgoritmi		7

More...

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

Language versions of the article "String-searching algorithm" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) خوارزمية بحث في سلسلة محارف		0
2	Czech (cs) Algoritmy pro vyhledávání v textu		0
3	German (de) String-Matching-Algorithmus		0
4	English (en) String-searching algorithm		0
5	Spanish (es) Algoritmos de búsqueda de subcadenas		0
6	Persian (fa) الگوریتم جستجوی رشته		0
7	Finnish (fi) Merkkijonohakualgoritmi		0
8	French (fr) Algorithme de recherche de sous-chaîne		0
9	Hebrew (he) אלגוריתמים לחיפוש מחרוזות		0
10	Indonesian (id) Algoritma pencarian string		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "String-searching algorithm" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) String-searching algorithm		142
2	French (fr) Algorithme de recherche de sous-chaîne		46
3	German (de) String-Matching-Algorithmus		33
4	Chinese (zh) 字串搜尋演算法		29
5	Ukrainian (uk) Алгоритм пошуку рядка		26
6	Japanese (ja) 文字列探索		24
7	Korean (ko) 문자열 검색 알고리즘		17
8	Persian (fa) الگوریتم جستجوی رشته		11
9	Indonesian (id) Algoritma pencarian string		9
10	Italian (it) Algoritmo di pattern matching su stringhe		9

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic خوارزمية بحث في سلسلة محارف
cs	Czech Algoritmy pro vyhledávání v textu
de	German String-Matching-Algorithmus
en	English String-searching algorithm
es	Spanish Algoritmos de búsqueda de subcadenas
fa	Persian الگوریتم جستجوی رشته
fi	Finnish Merkkijonohakualgoritmi
fr	French Algorithme de recherche de sous-chaîne
he	Hebrew אלגוריתמים לחיפוש מחרוזות
id	Indonesian Algoritma pencarian string
it	Italian Algoritmo di pattern matching su stringhe
ja	Japanese 文字列探索
ko	Korean 문자열 검색 알고리즘
sh	Serbo-Croatian Algoritam za pretragu nizova
sr	Serbian Algoritam za pretragu niski
tr	Turkish Dizi arama algoritması
uk	Ukrainian Алгоритм пошуку рядка
zh	Chinese 字串搜尋演算法

Best Rank

English: #76891 04.2016

Global: #111021 09.2013

Best Rank

English: #3893 10.2001

Global: #4080 10.2001

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information