dtSearch vs. Google Search Appliance (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
dtSearch
Score 0.0 out of 10
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dtSearch offers search capabilities for documents and applications. dtSearch Desktop and Network can index over a terabyte of text in a single index, spanning multiple folders, emails and attachments, online data and other databases. The products can create and search any number of indexes. Indexed search time is typically less than a second, even across terabytes of data.
$248
one-time fee single user license
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
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Yext
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Guru
Guru
Score 9.6 out of 10
Guru
Guru
Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Guru
Guru
Score 9.6 out of 10
Guru
Guru
Score 9.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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7.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
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5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
dtSearch Corporation
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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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Pros
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  • Homes in on key searches.
  • Immediate response.
  • Simple UI, very user-friendly.
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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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