Azure Bing Search vs. Google Search Appliance (discontinued)

Azure Bing Search is well suited for enterprises involving problem-solving activities like IT companies, manufacturing industries, etc as solving problems is the main goal of search engines. Also, education platforms can make use of this product also. This product is less appropriate for the industries that need cheap search engine products with all the services provided. They can go for other alternatives.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• Stable results
• A lot of customization and targeting of the search
• Searching is quite good and fast

Incentivized

• Homes in on key searches.
• Immediate response.
• Simple UI, very user-friendly.

Incentivized

• Pricing of Azure Bing search API is a lot more
• UI of web search is not so good
• Takes too much of browser cache space on long use

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

Neutral rating because I've never needed support.

Incentivized

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

Google search has always been superior. No other search engine application can even come close.

Incentivized

• Safe
• Steady
• Safe for work
• Good content

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized