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Azure Bing Search vs. Google Search Appliance (discontinued)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Bing Search

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure hosts a range of Bing Search tools for enterprise applications. These include: -Bing Custom Search -Bing Autosuggest -Bing Entity Search -Bing Image Search -Bing News Search -Bing Video Search -Bing Visual Search -Bing Web SearchN/A

    Google Search Appliance (discontinued)

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AThe 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
    Azure Bing SearchGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Azure Bing SearchGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Discontinued Products
    Chose Google Search Appliance (discontinued)
    Google search has always been superior. No other search engine application can even come close.
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    Azure Bing SearchGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
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    Elasticsearch
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Algolia
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    Azure Bing SearchGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure Bing SearchGoogle Search Appliance (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    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
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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
    Microsoft
    • Searching
    • API for custom search integration
    • Recommending solutions for our products
    • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) options
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    • Homes in on key searches.
    • Immediate response.
    • Simple UI, very user-friendly.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Amount of results
    • Marketing (still not really used)
    • Algorithms regarding safe x non-safe x work safe
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    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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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Neutral rating because I've never needed support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    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.
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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
    Microsoft
    • Increase in productivity
    • Better yield in income
    • Satisfied customers
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    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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