Binary search

Quality:

Binary search algorithm - search algorithm in sorted lists that operates by decreasing the search space by half each pass. Article "Binary search" in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Thai Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article "Binary search", its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1410 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 988 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #592 in December 2024
• Global: #1277 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #10825 in May 2025
• Global: #8548 in October 2018

There are 39 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	Thai (th) การค้นหาแบบทวิภาค		97.9989
2	English (en) Binary search		94.1688
3	Chinese (zh) 二分搜尋		90.0769
4	Vietnamese (vi) Tìm kiếm nhị phân		80.6617
5	Arabic (ar) خوارزمية البحث الثنائي		72.0208
6	Japanese (ja) 二分探索		67.1203
7	Catalan (ca) Cerca binària		52.6479
8	Tamil (ta) இருமத் தேடல் அல்கோரிதம்		47.4213
9	Spanish (es) Búsqueda binaria		46.3378
10	Estonian (et) Kahendotsing		35.7361

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Binary search		8 318 125
2	Russian (ru) Двоичный поиск		983 560
3	German (de) Binäre Suche		581 605
4	Japanese (ja) 二分探索		525 793
5	Chinese (zh) 二分搜尋		406 816
6	Portuguese (pt) Pesquisa binária		373 563
7	French (fr) Recherche dichotomique		360 022
8	Italian (it) Ricerca dicotomica		284 999
9	Polish (pl) Wyszukiwanie binarne		274 945
10	Spanish (es) Búsqueda binaria		232 515

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Binary search		14 784
2	Japanese (ja) 二分探索		2 811
3	Russian (ru) Двоичный поиск		1 845
4	French (fr) Recherche dichotomique		1 349
5	Chinese (zh) 二分搜尋		1 096
6	Simple English (simple) Binary search		670
7	German (de) Binäre Suche		642
8	Hebrew (he) חיפוש בינארי		438
9	Italian (it) Ricerca dicotomica		418
10	Polish (pl) Wyszukiwanie binarne		414

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Binary search		454
2	German (de) Binäre Suche		115
3	French (fr) Recherche dichotomique		111
4	Russian (ru) Двоичный поиск		81
5	Chinese (zh) 二分搜尋		62
6	Italian (it) Ricerca dicotomica		59
7	Portuguese (pt) Pesquisa binária		48
8	Hebrew (he) חיפוש בינארי		42
9	Polish (pl) Wyszukiwanie binarne		33
10	Japanese (ja) 二分探索		31

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	English (en) Binary search		6
2	Azerbaijani (az) İkili axtarış alqoritmi		1
3	French (fr) Recherche dichotomique		1
4	Korean (ko) 이진 검색 알고리즘		1
5	Chinese (zh) 二分搜尋		1
6	Arabic (ar) خوارزمية البحث الثنائي		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Двоично търсене		0
8	Catalan (ca) Cerca binària		0
9	Czech (cs) Binární vyhledávání		0
10	German (de) Binäre Suche		0

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

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