Search Tools

1. Google Custom Search runs on more than half of the sites using a search tool (69%), 4.6 times as many sites as Algolia.
2. Only 5 of the 72 search tools we track run on more than 1% of these sites.
3. Among sites launched in September, Klevu rose to #6 from #23 in August.
4. Daum is a regional leader, used almost entirely by sites in South Korea.

#	Movement	Tool	Country	Share	Bar	Sites	90 days
1	–	Google Custom Search Google's customisable search engine that site owners embed to search their own site or a chosen set of sites.		69%		7,567
2	–	Algolia Hosted search-as-a-service offering instant search, autocomplete, and recommendations for sites and apps.		15%		1,660
3	–	Pagefind Static site search library that runs entirely in the browser against a prebuilt index.		5.9%		650
4	–	S Searchanise Site search and product filter service for online stores on Shopify, Wix, BigCommerce and other platforms.		2.9%		320
5	▲1	Doofinder Hosted site search and product discovery service for online stores.		1.2%		132
6	▼5	DuckDuckGo Privacy-focused search engine that does not track user queries.		0.9%		97
7	▼2	Daum South Korean web portal and search service operated by Kakao.		0.6%		65
8	▲1	S SearchIQ Hosted site search service providing instant search results for WordPress and web pages.		0.5%		54
9	▼4	B Brave Search Privacy-focused search engine API by Brave Software.		0.4%		44
10	▼11	T Typesense Open-source typo-tolerant search engine.		0.3%		28

Share is of the 10,965 sites using a search tool; a site can use more than one. A flag means nearly all of a tool's sites are in that country. Arrows compare each tool's rank among sites launched in September with August. The line is its share of new sites over 90 days. Showing the top 10 of 72.

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Other kinds of tool most often found on the same sites, leaving out the plumbing every site has (DNS, CDN, hosting).

• Analytics 142
• Framework 89
• Javascript Library 77
• Advertising 75
• Meta Framework 70
• CSS Framework 68