Google Search Appliance (discontinued) vs. Perplexity

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
The Google Search Appliance provided document indexing. The product was discontinued in favor of Google's cloud-based options.N/A
Perplexity
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
An answer engine for publicly available knowledge, Perplexity's Enterprise Pro plan helps employees get fast answers to their most complex questions without the usual need to click on different links, compare answers, or endlessly dig for information.
$20
per month
Pricing
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Perplexity
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Perplexity
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Perplexity
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Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.4 out of 10
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Perplexity
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Perplexity
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Perplexity AI, Inc.
Perplexity is helpful when you want auto-code generation for day-to-day problem scenarios such as Powershell script to accomplish a task, Code to invoke a REST API, Class generation from JSON/XML data, etc. It is also helpful when you want to correct or optimize code that you have self-written. Perplexity might not be best suited for scenarios when you need 100% accuracy without your self-verification of correctness.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Homes in on key searches.
  • Immediate response.
  • Simple UI, very user-friendly.
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Perplexity AI, Inc.
  • Creating Professional Emails
  • Code Suggestion and Code Auto-Generation
  • Code Optimization
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • 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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Perplexity AI, Inc.
  • Improved User Interface
  • Speed and Accuracy
  • Enhanced Understanding
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Usability
Discontinued Products
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Perplexity AI, Inc.
Perplexity allows users to enter the question in a single textbox "Ask Anything" and provides both direct responses and conversational interaction. Summarized responses from multiple sources are presented neatly in the User Interface. It maintains context understanding from the previous questions and provides interactive ways to refine questions. However, scrolling through the content is a bit challenging.
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
Neutral rating because I've never needed support.
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Perplexity AI, Inc.
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Google search has always been superior. No other search engine application can even come close.
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Perplexity AI, Inc.
I have been using all the 3 products - ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Perplexity helps when ChatGPT and Gemini fail. There have been several instances when Chat GPT and Gemini provided inaccurate results and in those times Perplexity became a clear winner. However, in terms of usability, I feel ChatGPT has a slight edge.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • 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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Perplexity AI, Inc.
  • Improved Efficiency
  • Reduced Time to Implement and Go-To-Market
  • Boosts Customer Retention and Satisfaction
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