Search algorithm

Quality:

Search algorithm - any algorithm which solves the search problem, namely, to retrieve information stored within some data structure, or calculated in the search space of a problem domain, either with discrete or continuous values. Article "Search algorithm" in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article "Search algorithm", its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 714 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1166 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #981 in February 2018
• Global: #1936 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8801 in August 2024
• Global: #47732 in November 2009

There are 29 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	Malay (ms) Algoritma gelintar		32.4851
2	English (en) Search algorithm		27.2775
3	Turkish (tr) Arama algoritması		24.783
4	Chinese (zh) 搜索算法		22.8545
5	Korean (ko) 검색 알고리즘		21.2143
6	Ukrainian (uk) Алгоритм пошуку		20.3007
7	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo de busca		17.0688
8	Indonesian (id) Algoritma pencarian		16.6769
9	Armenian (hy) Ինֆորմացիոն փնտրում		16.4919
10	Hungarian (hu) Keresőalgoritmus		14.7599

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Search algorithm		2 477 527
2	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de búsqueda		687 053
3	German (de) Suchverfahren		371 969
4	Japanese (ja) 探索		300 756
5	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo de busca		102 434
6	Indonesian (id) Algoritma pencarian		100 875
7	Italian (it) Algoritmo di ricerca		97 199
8	Vietnamese (vi) Giải thuật tìm kiếm		91 647
9	French (fr) Algorithme de recherche		86 066
10	Persian (fa) الگوریتم جستجو		78 791

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) Search algorithm		4 811
2	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de búsqueda		503
3	German (de) Suchverfahren		463
4	Japanese (ja) 探索		439
5	Chinese (zh) 搜索算法		317
6	Simple English (simple) Search algorithm		251
7	French (fr) Algorithme de recherche		204
8	Portuguese (pt) Algoritmo de busca		108
9	Persian (fa) الگوریتم جستجو		96
10	Italian (it) Algoritmo di ricerca		85

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Search algorithm		207
2	German (de) Suchverfahren		105
3	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de búsqueda		60
4	Italian (it) Algoritmo di ricerca		41
5	French (fr) Algorithme de recherche		39
6	Persian (fa) الگوریتم جستجو		34
7	Chinese (zh) 搜索算法		30
8	Dutch (nl) Zoekalgoritme		19
9	Japanese (ja) 探索		18
10	Vietnamese (vi) Giải thuật tìm kiếm		17

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	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de búsqueda		2
2	Korean (ko) 검색 알고리즘		1
3	Arabic (ar) خوارزمية بحث		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Axtarış alqoritmləri		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Алгоритъм за търсене		0
6	Catalan (ca) Algorisme de cerca		0
7	Danish (da) Søgealgoritme		0
8	German (de) Suchverfahren		0
9	Greek (el) Αλγόριθμος αναζήτησης		0
10	English (en) Search algorithm		0

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

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