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Summary

search engine ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,726 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: software[2]
  • Has use: information retrieval[3]
  • Commons category: Search engines[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Data search engines[5]
  • Described by source: search engine optimization[6]
  • Different from: search engine[7]
  • Uses: search algorithm[8]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[9]
  • Wikimedia outline: outline of search engines[10]
  • Thomson Reuters Business Classification: 667898877[11]
  • P6009: 12708[12]

Why It Matters

search engine has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 126 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

Elasticsearch Endeca Technologies Inc. Findatour.co Hoogle Jughead Library of Alexandria Microsoft Academic Search NASA Image eXchange OpenAI OpenSearch Palladia Search appliance Sherlock software Swiftype

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . 1seouzmani.com. 1seouzmani.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). search engine. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/search-engine-q19541
MLA “search engine.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 14 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/search-engine-q19541.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_search-engine-q19541_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{search engine}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/search-engine-q19541}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
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  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['eVzsp', '3jQHh3']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
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