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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Luxand FaceSDK

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    Pricing
    Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Luxand FaceSDK
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
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    Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Luxand FaceSDK
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Luxand FaceSDK
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Google Search Appliance (discontinued)Luxand FaceSDK
    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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    Pros
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    • Homes in on key searches.
    • Immediate response.
    • Simple UI, very user-friendly.
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    Luxand
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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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    Luxand
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    Support Rating
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    Neutral rating because I've never needed support.
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    Luxand
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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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