Google Search Appliance Review - why 3.9 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Mar 18, 2020

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What is Google Search Appliance?

Google Search Appliance is an enterprise level search appliance that comes with a combination of the search expertise of Google to simplify the data finding process. Users can enhance searches with intelligent spellcheck and extensive synonyms and makes searches smarter with this search appliance solution. Google, the company behind this search appliance, was founded back in 1998, is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has thousands of employees and offices all around the world.

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Who is it best for?

Google Search Appliance is suitable for large enterprises, universities, recruitment industries and other companies that are looking for a way to make their internal search engine work as good as Google. Discovery Channel, GoDaddy.com and British Airways are some of the clients of Google Search Appliance.

Main features and functionalities

Google Search Appliance comes with sorting by metadata, wildcard search, entry recognition, spellcheck and synonyms, language translation, self-learning scorer, expert search, user-added results, document preview, autocomplete, dynamic navigation, collections, more than 20 languages support, information centralizing and fast user authentication features. The software benefits from the search technology of Google.com and can fine tune itself automatically by analyzing user preferences and behavior.

What is the actual cost?

The cost of license starts at $1,000 per month. ITQlick pricing score is 4 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for Google Search Appliance.

Pros

• Google Search Appliance can fine tune automatically by analyzing user preferences and behavior
• Google Search Appliance supports customize search unlike other similar search appliances
• The search appliance tool comes with better indexing and auto crawling comparing to other similar tools

Cons

• Google Search Appliance doesn’t support customizing algorithm which can be a problem for some users
• Google Search Appliance is slightly expensive comparing to other similar search appliances
• The search appliance tool can expose the organization to commercial security threats according to some business analysts

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of Google Search Appliance vs alternative software solutions.

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