Google Search Appliance [EOL] vs IBM Watson Discovery comparison

Google and IBM are both solutions in the Indexing and Search category. Additionally, 100% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Google Search Appliance [EOL]

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Google Search Appliance [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

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No ranking in other categories

IBM Watson Discovery

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Indexing and Search (7th)

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it_user1227

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

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Geraldo Lima

Sales Director at Kukac

Stable, scalable, and has testing and conversational AI features

The total time it takes to deploy IBM Watson Discovery depends on the documents you'll be working with. For example, I was in a situation where I was working with some painting files and folders for a painting store. The store had PDF documents, but the information was mixed up, so I had to treat the documents on IBM Watson Discovery, and discovering and understanding each PDF file took longer. The process is more straightforward for plain documents, and you have to work with questions that will help IBM Watson Discovery understand the documents. The time to deploy the product depends on the quantity and type of documents you'll be working with.

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Overview

Google Search Appliance combines the search expertise of Google with features that meet today's business requirements all in one box. As features, it allows users to lend their expertise by adding handpicked results to search queries, ensuring that relevant results appear at the top for certain keywords, analyzes user behavior and preferences to learn from experience and deliver more relevant results over time and benefits from the technology of Google.com, which evolves continually through machine learning from billions of search queries.

Google

Watson Discovery is an award-winning enterprise search and AI search technology that breaks open data silos and retrieves specific answers to your questions while analyzing trends and relationships buried in enterprise data. Watson Discovery applies the latest breakthroughs in machine learning, including natural language processing capabilities, and is easily trained on the language of your domain. Unlike competitors, Watson Discovery can be deployed on any cloud or on-premises environment.

IBM

Sample Customers

British Airways, City of Calgary, Discovery Channel, Emerson Process Management, FINRA, GoDaddy.com, Hayneedle, Hays, Honeywell Aerospace, Honeywell Transportation, Posco, Soci_t_ G_n_rale Group

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