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ayfie Locator vs. Google Search Appliance (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ayfie Locator
Score 0.0 out of 10
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ayfie Locator is an enterprise indexing and search software, designed to allow users to put an end to restrictive data silos, transform user experience, increase productivity and gain greater IT agility without losing control — letting employees find information they didn't know existed.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
ayfie LocatorGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ayfie LocatorGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
ayfie LocatorGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
Best Alternatives
ayfie LocatorGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
Small Businesses
Yext
Yext
Score 8.9 out of 10
Yext
Yext
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Guru
Guru
Score 9.4 out of 10
Guru
Guru
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Guru
Guru
Score 9.4 out of 10
Guru
Guru
Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
ayfie LocatorGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
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(0 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ayfie LocatorGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
ayfie Group
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Discontinued Products
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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Pros
ayfie Group
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Discontinued Products
  • Homes in on key searches.
  • Immediate response.
  • Simple UI, very user-friendly.
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Cons
ayfie Group
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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
ayfie Group
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Neutral rating because I've never needed support.
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Alternatives Considered
ayfie Group
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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
ayfie Group
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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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