Amazon CloudSearch vs. Azure Bing Search

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon CloudSearch
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Amazon CloudSearch is enterprise search as a service, from Amazon Web Services.N/A
Azure Bing Search
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Azure hosts a range of Bing Search tools for enterprise applications. These include: -Bing Custom Search -Bing Autosuggest -Bing Entity Search -Bing Image Search -Bing News Search -Bing Video Search -Bing Visual Search -Bing Web SearchN/A
Pricing
Amazon CloudSearchAzure Bing Search
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon CloudSearchAzure Bing Search
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Amazon CloudSearchAzure Bing Search
Considered Both Products
Amazon CloudSearch
Chose Amazon CloudSearch
I didn't investigate the best alternatives to CloudSearch, but did help with implementing this feature in our application. But from what i tested and used - Cloudsearch is very fast to get queries. Some negative points can be the time to implement this and some configurations …
Azure Bing Search
Chose Azure Bing Search
It's our go-to tool - safe, steady, reliable, and good. Security and safety for work is our top concern and azure does it all. We love it! When we need to search something game-related, like for example, a sprite c00 or something like that, it gives us good results regarding …
Chose Azure Bing Search
Azure Bing Custom Search is a commercial-grade solution that lets you create a highly personalized web search experience that delivers dramatically better and more relevant results. While Bing's Web Search API lets you search the entire web, Bing's Custom Search lets you select …
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Small Businesses
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
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User Ratings
Amazon CloudSearchAzure Bing Search
Likelihood to Recommend
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8.0
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User Testimonials
Amazon CloudSearchAzure Bing Search
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Cloudsearch can be suitable for some queries that require fast data. For example, in our case, we used CloudSearch, in a tool called Global Search. That will search everything like names, emails and a lot of stuff in our application. If you want fast data and you have a simple query, Global Search isn't appropriate for you.
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Azure Bing Search is well suited for enterprises involving problem-solving activities like IT companies, manufacturing industries, etc as solving problems is the main goal of search engines. Also, education platforms can make use of this product also. This product is less appropriate for the industries that need cheap search engine products with all the services provided. They can go for other alternatives.
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Pros
  • Really fast queries
  • Good Reporting
  • Reduce the cost of the server
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  • Stable results
  • A lot of customization and targeting of the search
  • Searching is quite good and fast
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Cons
  • Can take some time to implement
  • The initial configuration can be tricky
  • Takes some time to update the values
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  • Pricing of Azure Bing search API is a lot more
  • UI of web search is not so good
  • Takes too much of browser cache space on long use
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Alternatives Considered
I didn't investigate the best alternatives to CloudSearch, but did help with implementing this feature in our application. But from what i tested and used - Cloudsearch is very fast to get queries. Some negative points can be the time to implement this and some configurations that can be tricky.
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Azure Bing Custom Search is a commercial-grade solution that lets you create a highly personalized web search experience that delivers dramatically better and more relevant results. While Bing's Web Search API lets you search the entire web, Bing's Custom Search lets you select the slices of the web you want to search and control the ranking when searching within the targeted webspace.
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Return on Investment
  • Positive Point - Reduced the server load
  • Negative point - Not suitable for all queries
  • Negative Point - Time to implement this feature
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  • Safe
  • Steady
  • Safe for work
  • Good content
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