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AddSearch provides lightning-fast, effortless, and customizable site search for any website or web application. Use our Crawler or Indexing API to index your content and keep it up-to-date. AddSearch also supports with search UI build and search setup. With enterprise-level features, such as autocomplete, synonyms, ranking tools, and progressive ranking, AddSearch scales to any needs from small businesses to large corporations.
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Guru
Free 3,100 RatingsGuru is an AI search and knowledge platform that delivers trusted information from your company's scattered docs, apps, and chats the moment you need it without leaving the apps you’re already in. No need to dig for information, Guru’s personalized AI assistant gets you verified/trusted, relevant answers. Guru's AI can turn those answers into an AI-powered knowledge platform to replace your legacy wiki and intranet too. Guru natively integrates with Slack, Google, Microsoft Sharepoint, OneDrive, and Teams, Salesforce, Zendesk, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira, Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Asana, HubSpot, ClickUp, GitHub, GitLab, Intercom, ServiceNow, Linear, Front, and more -
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Wizzy is an intelligent site search solution for eCommerce website owners. It offers comprehensive site search solutions, such as user-friendly search, user-friendly filter, merchandising, and personalisation. Benefits of using Wizzy -->Quickest Search results -Wizzy can help the end consumer find your products so quickly that they will never visit another site. -->Contextual search results -Since Wizzy is AI-powered, it can understand even if the customer uses a different search term. -->Improved sales - Wizzy helps customers find the right products faster, thus improving your overall sales. -->Influencer search results -Wizzy allows you to influence search results based on the SKUs you wish to show up at the top, or you can personalise search results for customers. Due to its ML-powered nature, Wizzy will continuously improve the customer experience. Try Wizzy now! 15-day Free trial!
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Keyspider is a cloud-based enterprise search engine that provides accurate search results. Keyspider allows you to create your own custom website search without additional cost or time. Keyspider is able to understand the customer's needs and deliver the right results for their search queries. Websites can now enjoy better search results and more conversions. It aims to change the way customers navigate through customer websites using a search-as a-service that leaves no stone unturned. With tailored search, you can increase relevance across all mediums.
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Site Search ONE WordPress Plugin offers a 'no code' solution for professional searches of Posts & Pages (upto 40,000 pages/posts). Facets & Filters make use of WordPress Categories, Tags & Custom Fields, or Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), which allow site visitors to 'drill down' the search results. Sortable search results with highlighted hits in-context on a small snippet of surrounding content. Stemming, WordNet synonyms, Soundex. Search types: nested Boolean search, All words, Any word search. Premium add-on plugin allows you to search Office docs. This includes PDFs with hit-highlighting and user-definable synonyms. Site Search ONE plugin can be downloaded free of charge and is open-source. However, you will need to subscribe to the Search Cloud One platform - which is a Search-as-a-Service offering a dtSearch Engine API. Get a free 30-day trial.
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Elasticsearch
Elastic
1 RatingElastic is a search company. Elasticsearch, Kibana Beats, Logstash, and Elasticsearch are the founders of the ElasticStack. These SaaS offerings allow data to be used in real-time and at scale for analytics, security, search, logging, security, and search. Elastic has over 100,000 members in 45 countries. Elastic's products have been downloaded more than 400 million times since their initial release. Today, thousands of organizations including Cisco, eBay and Dell, Goldman Sachs and Groupon, HP and Microsoft, as well as Netflix, Uber, Verizon and Yelp use Elastic Stack and Elastic Cloud to power mission critical systems that generate new revenue opportunities and huge cost savings. Elastic is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Mountain View, California. It has more than 1,000 employees in over 35 countries. -
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Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon
1 RatingAmazon CloudSearch is an AWS Cloud managed service that makes it easy and affordable to set up, manage and scale a search solution on your website or applications. Amazon CloudSearch supports 34 languages, as well as popular search features like geospatial and autocomplete. Amazon CloudSearch allows you to quickly add rich search capabilities into your website or application. You don't have to be a search expert nor worry about hardware setup, maintenance, or provisioning. You can easily create a search domain, upload the data you wish to make searchable, then Amazon CloudSearch will automatically provision and deploy the necessary resources. You can easily modify your search parameters, adjust search relevance, or apply new settings at any moment. Amazon CloudSearch automatically scales to your changing traffic and data volumes. -
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Celebros' powerful recommendation engine "knows," like any good salesperson. It suggests additional items to your customers as they shop. Cross Sell's intuitive merchandising technology uses real-time search data and behavioral analytics data to suggest products that may be of interest to your customers. Cross-Sell allows customers to search for and purchase complementary products to the products they are currently shopping. Cross-Sell uses natural language semantic algorithms and past purchases to suggest products that will increase your average order value (AOV) and give you a more personal shopping experience. You can set recommendations to display results based upon your merchandising requirements. Different categories, brands, and SKU's may require different cookie cutter suggestions.
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Your website can help people find the information they need. You can add a search box to your website and get fast, relevant results from Google Search. It's powered by Google Search's core search technology, which is constantly improving. This ensures that you always get relevant results. Program your search engine to determine what content it searches for and how it looks. Integrate your search engine on your website quickly. Decide whether you want your search engine to only include your website or other websites. You can choose from a variety of pre-made themes or create your own search results page. You can either pay nothing and earn revenue by showing relevant ads using AdSense or you can pay a low fee for an ad-free experience.
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Apache Solr
Apache Software Foundation
1 RatingSolr is highly reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant. It provides distributed indexing, replication, load-balanced querying and automated failover and recovery. Solr powers many of the largest internet sites around the world's search and navigation functions. Solr allows powerful matching capabilities, including phrases, wildcards and joins, grouping, and much more across any type of data. Solr has been proven on large scales all over the globe. Solr uses the same tools that you use to make application development easy. Solr ships with an intuitive, responsive administrative interface that makes it easy to manage your Solr instances. Want to know more about your instances? Solr publishes loads metric data via JMX. Solr is built on Apache Zookeeper, which has been proven to scale well. Solr is a complete solution for replication, distribution, rebalancing, and fault tolerance. -
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Expertrec lets you add a custom search engine to your website/online store without any coding. It has a powerful control panel that lets you customize the look and feel of your search engine to match the theme of your website. Features: Personalized search Autocomplete Spell correction Voice search Search as you type Faceted search PDF, XLS, DOCs search Indexing behind login pages Integrates across all major CMS platforms. WordPress / Joomla / Drupal/ Woocommerce/Shopify and more. Multiple languages supported Low latency high speed search Rated the best solution in our Category, with the highest customer ratings and success rates. Most cost-effective solution for your search needs.
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Site Search 360 is an intelligent, ad-free search engine for your website. You can quickly get your search up-and-running with a simple drag and drop integration. Your visitors will find exactly what they need right away. Site Search 360 features include: Visual configuration is quick and simple Search suggestions and autocomplete Search results for Facet-organized Semantic Search: Built-in Dictionary in 19 Languages + the ability to add custom synonyms Analytics to help you get more out of your search: What are your visitors looking for? What results do they click on? What queries don't bring any results? Full control over search results: boost, reorder, redirect Integration with Google Analytics & Google Tag Manager Import of Google Custom Search Promotions Amazing support: Live chat, email, and phone
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Luigi's Box
Luigi's Box
€99 per month 67 RatingsLuigi's Box is a unique technological solution that uses AI to bring customers only relevant search results and personalized product suggestions, enhances the user experience, and unlocks the potential of your business. It is a year-by-year awarded easy-to-operate solution with a support team that acts in the interest of your continuous success. Luigi's Box offers easy no-code self-service integration - you only need to paste the tracking script into the header of your web. But there is more; we understand that every platform has different needs and preferences, and therefore we offer several more integration options to choose from. Luigi's Box offers several advanced features to increase search relevance and revenue and avoid fruitless searches and other unnecessary troubles, which reached out and helped companies such as O2, Mountfield, and Dr.Max. These use cases are proof that Luigi's Box is suitable for any business or industry platform on the online market. -
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Algolia is an API platform for dynamic experiences that helps businesses maximize the speed of search and discovery, while solving the pain of relevance tuning through AI. Accessing the right piece of content on websites and apps has never been faster or more intuitive. Algolia Search is a powerful, fully hosted API that delivers content to users in milliseconds. Developers can customize the relevance of their user experience and get insights on how users interact with it. Algolia Recommend is a robust API that allows you to build unique product recommendations into any digital e-commerce experience.
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SearchStax provides end-to-end search solutions to improve the search experience. SearchStax Site Search is a site search solution that enables companies to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively implement a high-quality search experience. SearchStax Manged Search is a fully managed Solr service to help minimize the need to managed search infrastructure. We have over 700 clients in 20+ countries. We were recognized by G2 as a High Performer for Enterprise Search. Site Search for Your Website Made Easy SearchStax Site Search provides advanced, modern, and personalized search for your website. • Best-in-Class search experience • Actionable search insight for executives and managers • Self-service tools that the marketing team can use to update and optimize search results without the need for developers • Quick Implementation for developers Fully-Managed Solr Service in the Cloud SearchStax Managed Search, a fully managed, hosted Solr service that automates, manages, and scales high-availability Solr infrastructures in public or private clouds. • Spend more time on value-added projects and build faster. • Scale faster with automation • Lower incident and SLA costs reduce costs
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Bing Custom Search
Microsoft
$4 per 1,000 transactions 1 RatingA simple-to-use, ad free, commercial-grade search engine that will deliver the results you desire. Create a search that suits your needs. The Bing Custom Search API provides powerful ranking, a global search index, and document processing in a fast, simple setup. The core technology works in four stages: it identifies on-topic sites and images and provides automatic query suggestions. It then applies the Bing ranker to deliver relevant search results. You can adjust the parameters to access usage insights at any time. Define which parts of the web you wish to draw from, so that users only see relevant results from domains, subsites, or web pages you select. To expand the scope of your search domain, explore site suggestions. To get a complete view of search results and ranking, use Bing's global-scale index. You can create a compelling search experience for web pages, images, or autosuggested keywords. - 17
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Search.io
Search.io
$0.00 per monthSearch.io is reengineering search to give developers the tools to create intelligent searches in hours and not months. Search.io optimizes search results automatically based on customer data and business data. Developers can implement advanced capabilities such as A/B testing and reinforcement learning in just a few lines. This is a significant improvement over the months it would take to implement. Search.io allows thousands of businesses to offer highly-intelligent searches on their websites, stores, or applications. -
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Prefixbox
Prefixbox
389$Prefixbox’s AI Search, AI Navigation, AI Recommend and Insights solutions improve the shopping experience for increased conversion rate and revenue. -
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Swiftype
Swiftype
$299.00/month Swiftype Site Search provides businesses and their customers a fast and flexible site search experience. Swiftype Site Search allows businesses to add a search function to their website. This will allow customers, readers, and followers to find highly relevant results. The solution can be tailored to meet the specific needs of a business, whether it's an online shop looking to increase conversion rates, or an online publication looking to boost engagement. -
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Searchspring
Searchspring
$599/month Searchspring delivers the ultimate shopping experience. As the #1 search, merchandising, and personalization platform built exclusively for ecommerce, Searchspring enables brands to get the right product, to the right person, at the right time. -
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Amazon Kendra
Amazon
$2.50 per hourAmazon Kendra, a machine learning-powered enterprise search service, is highly accurate and simple to use. Kendra provides powerful natural language search capabilities for your websites and apps so that your end users can find the information they need in the large amount of content across your company. Natural language questions are better than keywords. This will allow you to find the answers you need, whether it is a specific answer or an entire document. You can stop searching through endless links for the information you are looking for and just focus on finding it. Information silos can be eliminated. Kendra allows you to easily add content from file system, SharePoint, intranet websites, file sharing services, etc. into a central location. This will allow you to quickly search for all your information and find the best answer. Kendra's machine-learning algorithms learn which results are most valuable to you and improve your search results. -
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appbase.io
appbase.io
$49 per monthNoCode, JavaScript components and REST APIs make it easy to create the most complex app search experiences. You can ship 10x faster if you build search on your favorite stack. You can detect user intent, set search settings, synonyms, and business rules, and deploy in seconds. Continuous relevance and engagement improvements are possible with out-of-the box search analytics and insights. Appbase.io is powered and managed by Elasticsearch, an industry-leading search engine. Appbase.io allows you to bring your Elasticsearch host or Elasticsearch search engine. Appbase.io's app layer cache offers an industry-leading search performance. Available in 16 regions worldwide with 2x failover protection. You can also self-host using our Docker image. You can set granular access controls that are based on routes and fields. You can also create multiple special purpose keys. You can set rate limits, limit IPs, and much more. To securely collaborate on appbase.io, create access policies for your team members. -
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Collie
Mixpeek
$50 per monthThe Collie fetcher automates web scraping. It visits a URL and extracts media, files, and content. It then visits the URLs to which these pages link, and repeats this process for all linked pages. It adds each asset into a search index named Mixpeek, where it can be searched. Collie's cookie tracks your browsing progress and provides personalized summaries, as well as guided next steps when you return. Collie records the progress of users as they navigate your site. She captures the page where the user left your site and generates a summary, including references and next steps. When the user returns to your site, you will present them with this summary and next steps, as well as resources, so they can get unstuck. Optimize your conversion funnel - whether it's for subscribing a newsletter, buying an item, or signing up for a product. -
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Findkit
Findkit
€59/month Findkit is a white-label site search solution that is adaptable, quick, and extremely easy to deploy. Findkit's cloud crawler and search API can integrate huge amounts of data in minutes, whether you manage a domain or network of websites. Findkit comes with a CORS compatible API and an open source JavaScript UI Library, allowing you to create a search interface that is tailored to your specific needs. It's also fully compatible with any CMS or framework, and comes with an additional WordPress plugin. Findkit offers a free plan that allows you to try out the features without any upfront costs. You can customize your search by using language-aware indexing and content tagging. Real-time updates will keep your index in sync with the content of your site. Findkit's pricing is flexible and can grow with your needs. It offers larger index sizes, enhanced support, and more competitive rates.
Overview of Site Search Tools
Site search tools are software solutions designed to give online users an efficient search experience. They allow users to quickly locate the specific information or products that they’re looking for on any website. Site search tools provide a powerful way to filter out irrelevant results and find exactly what you need in a fraction of the time.
The most common type of site search tool is a keyword-based search bar, which allows users to type in their desired query without having to navigate through pages and pages of content manually. The software then searches the entire website for relevant content using those keywords and displays them in an organized list according to relevance. This type of search tool can be implemented easily and is seen as the standard for web searches today, with nearly all websites offering some kind of keyword-based searching solution.
However, there are more advanced options available for businesses wanting more comprehensive search capabilities than just a simple keyword-based bar. Advanced site search tools employ machine learning algorithms that learn from user behavior over time and adapt their results in real time based on current trends. For example, if certain words become popular among customers, these types of tools will surface related content automatically so customers see the most up-to-date results first. Additionally, advanced site search tools often feature visual elements such as images and videos, allowing customers to get a full picture of their desired products at once rather than reading written descriptions alone.
Overall, site search tools are indispensable resources when it comes to providing visitors with an enjoyable online experience – whether they’re looking for information or products on your website – and making sure that customers get what they need quickly and efficiently.
What Are Some Reasons To Use Site Search Tools?
- To save time: Site search tools allow visitors to quickly find the information they are looking for by typing keywords into a search bar, eliminating the need to manually navigate through web pages in order to locate the desired content.
- To improve user experience: Site search tools provide an efficient and convenient way for visitors to find relevant information on a website, resulting in a better overall user experience and potentially enhancing customer satisfaction.
- To personalize results: By integrating autocomplete features into their site search tool, businesses are able to customize search results based on what similar users have searched— further improving user experience and providing more accurate results that match visitor needs.
- To gain insights: Search analytics give businesses insight into how customers use their sites including the terms they use most often when conducting searches which can be leveraged in order to craft targeted product descriptions or advertising campaigns that will resonate with users.
- To increase conversion rates: By using site search tools, businesses can ensure that customers are able to easily access specific products or services they are interested in which may result in increased purchases or conversions down the line given customers were able to find precisely what they wanted without difficulty.
Why Are Site Search Tools Important?
Site search tools are extremely important when it comes to making websites user-friendly and easy to navigate. Without them, users would have to manually search through a website's entire content in order to find the information they need. This would be incredibly difficult and time-consuming, as well as discouraging for many potential customers who might quickly abandon their search instead of investing the time necessary.
Search tools also help businesses gain valuable insight into customer behavior. By analyzing trends in site searches over time, companies can determine which products or services customers are interested in and adjust their marketing strategies accordingly. This allows businesses to maximize their profits and engage with customers more effectively by creating an experience tailored specifically for them.
Finally, having an effective site search tool is key for improving a website's overall ranking on popular search engines such as Google and Bing. Search engine algorithms take into account metrics such as page load speed, broken links, ease of navigation, etc., so if customers are easily able to find informaiton on your website via its integrated search tool this can positively impact your rankings compared ot competitors who do not offer this capability.
In conclusion, investing in quality site search tools is essential to ensure that all web visitors have a positive experience finding what they're looking for and enable marketers with more accurate data on consumer trends while also helping improve SEO rankings overall; something that all business should consider when building or maintaining their online presence.
Site Search Tools Features
- Relevance Ranking: Site search tools provide users with the ability to rank results based on relevance to their query, so that the most pertinent information is presented first.
- Advanced Search: Tools often offer a set of advanced options in addition to keyword searches, such as refining results by type (images, documents, etc.), searching within specific sections or categories of the site, and restricting results by language or geography.
- Autocomplete: Autocomplete functions present users with a list of suggested terms related to their query as they type, saving them time and increasing accuracy of the query. Depending on the tool used, this may be generated using popular terms from past queries or indexed terms from existing content on the website being searched.
- Spell-checker/Correction: If a user misspells a word in their query or enters an incorrect term, many tools will automatically suggest corrected words based on similar words already included in indexed content on the site itself.
- Query Parsing and Semantic Features: Most modern search engines use a form of natural language processing that looks beyond single keywords entered by users into more granular components known as entities (e.g., people, places), which are then compared against data sources related to those entities (such as Wikipedia) to deliver more comprehensive results than simple keyword matching could provide alone. In some cases this may involve additional features such as synonym identification or semantic expansion (i.e., adding additional related phrases).
- Filter Options: Many tools include filter boxes for narrowing down search results according to specified criteria that can be selected interactively by users (for instance filtering only “documents” created within certain dates); these filters can save time spent scanning through unrelated pages and allow users to quickly find what they’re looking for without having to enter complex queries into multiple boxes repeatedly until finding good matches.
Types of Users That Can Benefit From Site Search Tools
- Consumers: Site search tools provide users with an efficient way to locate the products and services they need, saving them time and effort.
- Businesses: Businesses can benefit from site search tools by creating a consistent customer experience across all their channels. This helps to increase conversions and sales as customers have an easier time locating the items they’re looking for.
- Website Owners: Site search tools give website owners insight into user behavior, allowing them to optimize their website navigation and improve the overall user experience.
- Retailers: By displaying relevant results quickly and accurately, site search tools can help retailers stand out from the competition by improving customer satisfaction and retention rates.
- Marketers: Through providing precise analytics on how customers are using the site’s search function, marketers are able to create content that aligns better with customer needs, leading to more effective campaigns over time.
- Developers: Developers can benefit from using site search tools because they help reduce development costs while still providing a great user experience. Also,since most of these searches are built in AJAX or JavaScript frameworks like jQuery and AngularJS, developers will be able to easily implement site-wide searches without losing code readability.
How Much Do Site Search Tools Cost?
The cost of site search tools can vary depending on the features and functionality offered. At the basic level, you can usually find free and open-source search tools available. For small businesses with limited technical abilities, these are perfect for getting started but may be limited in the features they offer.
For larger organizations or those looking for advanced capabilities, such as e-commerce integration and analytics options, there are many commercial-level options to choose from. These platforms often come with a variety of pricing plans, ranging from subscription models to one-time fees. Prices can range anywhere from $50 per month to thousands of dollars a year depending on what type of capabilities you need and how much customization is desired.
If that seems too expensive, some more advanced search tools also offer pay-as-you-go subscriptions based upon usage metrics like number of searches or results pages viewed; this is ideal for organizations that want more control over their expenses as well as access to additional features as needed without having to commit financially long term.
Risks To Consider With Site Search Tools
- Poorly configured search tools can lead to data privacy and security risks, as they may unintentionally expose sensitive information.
- Site search tools have the potential to create a poor user experience if not implemented with appropriate features and controls such as relevance sorting, filtering, and even spell-checking.
- Search functionality could be used maliciously by attackers attempting to identify valid user accounts or other system vulnerabilities.
- Outdated and poorly maintained site search tools can result in incorrect indexing which will lead to inaccurate or incomplete results for users, causing frustration or confusion.
- System performance issues may arise from using inefficient queries or overly complex processing logic which could cause lengthy delays in displaying search results.
What Software Can Integrate with Site Search Tools?
A number of different types of software can integrate with site search tools, making them even more powerful. For instance, database software such as MySQL or SQL Server can be used to store and organize large volumes of data so that it is easily searchable via the website's integrated search tool. Content management systems (CMS) like WordPress or Joomla are a great way to keep track of website content that needs to be indexed by the search tool for easy access. Additionally, analytics tools like Google Analytics allow webmasters to track how users interact with the site's search feature and analyze which queries give the most desirable results. Finally, customer relationship management (CRM) applications like Salesforce can integrate with site searches in order to suggest tailored products and services directly related to what customers are searching for on the website.
What Are Some Questions To Ask When Considering Site Search Tools?
- What type of user interface does the site search tool offer? Does it include an easy-to-use query builder or a more complex free text search bar?
- How efficient is the searching process? Is the indexing and query execution fast enough to deliver results in real time?
- How easily can new content be indexed and how long does that take?
- Are there any limitations on the types of files (e.g., file size, format, etc.) that can be indexed by the tool?
- Does it offer spellcheck/synonym lookup capabilities for improved accuracy and suggestions for users with misspelled queries?
- Does it have built-in filters such as date ranges, language preferences, etc.?
- Can its features be customized to support specific business requirements like boosting certain content over others based on relevance or displaying different results based on location or other demographics?
- Can the tool keep track of search trends (popular keywords) over time and provide meaningful insights through analytics so businesses can customize their search strategies accordingly?
- What kind of technical support is provided by the company during implementation or if problems occur afterward?