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Google Search Appliance [EOL] vs Lucidworks comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Google Search Appliance [EOL]
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Lucidworks
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (7th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user1227 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Support Staff at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Fast and efficient enterprise search application with query support in 40 different languages
A very good enterprise search application. Search results are produced pretty fast and the contents gets re-index quite often which ensures that the search results are not stale. The Administrative Interface is very easy to use and has a lot of useful information. The number of pages crawled by google search appliance is quite high compared other tools in the same domain. Another good feature of Google search appliance is that, the search index keeps getting updated for every update to any doc and removal of any doc actual clears the corresponding entry in the search index ensuring that non-existent entries don't show up in the results page. Search results can be grouped in various collections e.g. university collections, medical collections etc. Google Search Appliance very smartly handles the synonyms, as can be seen in the "narrow your search" feature. Indexing of content can be easily configured by specifying URLs
reviewer1679460 - PeerSpot reviewer
Department Manager at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Multiple connectors available, simple to manage, and easy to use for all users
The valuable features are automation and multiple connectors available out of the box. It is simple to manage and easier to use for all users The solution could improve by adding more AI and natural language processing. I have been using Lucidworks for approximately five years. Lucidworks is…

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"A very good enterprise search application with a good administrative user interface which is intuitive and easy to use."
"Good for enterprise search."
"Provides the ability to control how indexing and searching perform and controls how the scoring for search results is done, letting you customize the search experience according to your needs."
"We have a single powerful search solution, which provides search capabilities for all our needs."
"The valuable features are automation and multiple connectors available out of the box, and it is simple to manage and easier to use for all users."
 

Cons

"Can't customize algorithm. Little bit black box because you can't customize search algorithm."
"The ordering of search result is quite random and it is often seen that the most relevant search result is not shown in the top, which is quite confusing."
"The solution could improve by adding more AI and natural language processing."
"The price of the solution is a little high and the downside is there is not a perpetual license available."
"Having some kind of prebuilt client UI will be helpful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price of the solution is a little high and the downside is there is not a perpetual license available. I have to renew it annually. The price of Lucidworks can be difficult for some of my clients to afford."
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