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DocSearch vs. Google Search Appliance (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DocSearch
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Initially created at Algolia to fulfill the company's documentation needs, DocSearch eventually became a community project for open source docs. It is available for any kind of developer documentation, free and open-source under an MIT license.N/A
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)
Score 9.4 out of 10
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The Google Search Appliance provided document indexing. The product was discontinued in favor of Google's cloud-based options.N/A
Pricing
DocSearchGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DocSearchGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
DocSearchGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
Considered Both Products
DocSearch

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Google Search Appliance (discontinued)
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Google Search Appliance (discontinued)
Google search has always been superior. No other search engine application can even come close.
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
DocSearchGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
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7.0
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Support Rating
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5.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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The Google Search Appliance is well suited to most site search needs and it is possible to customize the front end seen by website visitors to produce a satisfactory basic interface with basic branding applied to it. However, in some situations it may be necessary to instead make API calls from a web page to retrieve search results and the format in which those results are returned might be a little more difficult to work with.
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Anonymous
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Pros
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  • Homes in on key searches.
  • Immediate response.
  • Simple UI, very user-friendly.
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Anonymous
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Cons
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  • It's my understanding that Google is ending support for the appliance soon. This is obviously an important consideration.
  • The administrator interface is far from easy to use.
  • There is a significant learning curve for new users.
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Support Rating
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Neutral rating because I've never needed support.
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Alternatives Considered
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Google search has always been superior. No other search engine application can even come close.
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Return on Investment
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  • The GSA was not cheap. At all.
  • There has also been a cost associated with our need to switch to another site search solution in the near future, due to Google ending support for the sppliance.
  • That said, we have so much support content that we owed it to our customers to offer a comprehensive search tool to help them find the most relevant content - and of course Google are the masters of this. However, it's worth noting that the alogorithms used on the GSA are far older than those used on google.com.
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