Azure Bing Search vs. Lucidworks Fusion

If your desire is to use an Azure Bing Custom Search API for a definitive solution, I recommend that you run a test instance and try it out first. Test it and you will see how easy it is to get the results you want. Take the opportunity to test how easy it is to search for your user

Incentivized

Very well suited for out of the box enterprise search applications.

• Searching
• API for custom search integration
• Recommending solutions for our products
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) options

Incentivized

• Signals feature to boost search results helps search relevancy
• Business Rules feature for tuning search results
• Query pipeline design gives great flexibility in application development

• Amount of results
• Marketing (still not really used)
• Algorithms regarding safe x non-safe x work safe

Incentivized

• Documentation can be improved

It is incredibly intuitive and so easy to use that business people can now complete functions that used to be limited to software developers only.

It has continued to improve over the years.

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.

Incentivized

IDOL seems to be a blackbox solution. Fusion is much more flexible with more features and options for developers to choose from.

• Increase in productivity
• Better yield in income
• Satisfied customers

Incentivized

• Allowed us to move software developers from enterprise search to other customer focused applications due to built in signals processing and related popularity boosting out of the box.
• Enabled business experts to work directly with Fusion to influence search results and not be so dependent on developers.