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Full-featured but simple search
What do you like best about the product?
Swiftype balances flexibility with simplicity. At one extreme, you can do all sorts of customizations - set up synonyms, rank results by hand, tweak the search algorithm by changing weights, even index content programmatically with their API. At the other extreme, it's very easy to set up a crawler-based engine - set it and forget it, it just works.
What do you dislike about the product?
Most troubleshooting involves emailing a ticket and waiting a day or so for a reply. The responses are detailed and helpful, but it would be nice to have a little faster service. However, my support tickets have all been very technical or on advanced topics; I haven't needed to contact support for anything mission critical.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Swiftype allows us to search across about 15 different domains. As a university, we have a lot of different vendors and systems, so we can't just consolidate everything on a single website. Swiftype helps all of our audiences - current students, prospective students, alumni, parents, faculty, and the general public - find the content that's relevant to them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take the free trial. It's very easy to set up and show some of the improvements you'll see.
Swiftype has changed the way users use our site
What do you like best about the product?
How easy it was to implement! I just installed their Wordpress plugin, added a search box, and all of a sudden it was working. We used the plugin for about two years and then once the tech team had more bandwidth we implemented the site crawler.
What do you dislike about the product?
I was unable to combine multiple Wordpress installations
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our website has over 600 pages so it could get very difficult for users to find the page they are looking for. With Swiftype we can make sure that the most important pages show up first.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go with the Crawler not the wordpress plugin if you have time to implement it.
Great Site Search and Helpful Staff!
What do you like best about the product?
Accurate results, easy to use, feature packed, helpful reporting, clean UI, and very helpful team who's always been their for us. I can't say enough great things about Swiftype.com.
What do you dislike about the product?
i honestly have no complaints. Anything we have needed for our ecommerce site can be accomplished.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Swiftype powers our websites in terms of site search. We have multiple sites that are all powered by Swiftype. Super easy to use, great UI, and they also have helpful reports to gain insight as to what our customers are searching for.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Absolutely. Their product is great but their level of support is second to none. I contacted them on a Sunday and had one of the cofounders personally reach out and solve my problem. I can't say enough about this company.
New to Search
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to easily create search results and my current contact has been really helpful. (Mike Wong)
What do you dislike about the product?
A tough learning curve. Haven't looking for tutorials yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making sure the right products are showing up based off search.
Simple and accurate search tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like that the customization and weighting of search results is easy to update and change. If I want to make sure that a result is prominent for a search or absent for a search it is very easy to control.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the installation instructions and steps are a little confusing for the amateur. I wish it were a little more user friendly in this regard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Swiftype allowed me to put an easy to customize search tool on a small website with very little cost.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a great tool for small and large sites, it is easy to use for the amateur and after some trial and error you'll be proficient at it in no time.
So fast
What do you like best about the product?
The speed is incredible. Querying 2 billion or more documents usually returns results in less than 500ms, and sometimes way faster.
What do you dislike about the product?
Understanding why some queries are slow while others are blazing fast isn't very intuitive sometimes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Querying big data in the fastest way possible.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a try, especially if you're still on MYSQL and the database is becoming a bottleneck for performance
Search made simple
What do you like best about the product?
The Swiftype team is incredible responsive and they helped us in every step of the Search integration. As a tech publication, we need to be able to deliver real time results and make sure users are always able to find what they are looking for.
Swiftype provides full control over exactly which search results appeared for our most important queries, while also being flexible enough to integrate with our database structure.
In addition to that, Swiftype’s crawler was able to index the site by extracting directly the data from the website’s HTML, so we didn't have to spend time on that.
Swiftype provides full control over exactly which search results appeared for our most important queries, while also being flexible enough to integrate with our database structure.
In addition to that, Swiftype’s crawler was able to index the site by extracting directly the data from the website’s HTML, so we didn't have to spend time on that.
What do you dislike about the product?
When we launched the new search results, the only missing feature was a big analytics dashboard to measure the impact of the search results. After speaking with the team, the worked on a dashboard that was release short after. Thanks to that, we were able to have a much deeper understanding of who their readers are, where they come from, and what they are looking for.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Engadget was running multiple backend databases and facing issues related with the search results. By implementing the Swiftype Engine we were able to customize those results, remove duplications and offer real time suggestions based on a combination of our databases.
Ultimate Scalable Search
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to configure, deploy, scale, and use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Make sure you are checking the correct version of the documentation - lots of healthy updates and new features always being added.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enterprise-level search -- from thousands to billions of records, from photographs to PDFs and everything else.
I have used Elasticsearch on production by 2 years
What do you like best about the product?
elasticsearch allow me to scale out flexibly and rapidly as my data grows (horizontal scale)
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't add a new parent/child relation once the index already created.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Near real time searchs
- My queries has executed in less than 2 seconds
- My queries has executed in less than 2 seconds
Recommendations to others considering the product:
elasticsearch will allow you to scale out flexibly and rapidly as your data grows
Great search engine
What do you like best about the product?
Very fast search. Mostly intuitive plugins. Great integration with other 3rd parties.
What do you dislike about the product?
It diesn't designed and actualy awfull as a data base.
Missing some search functionality that was useful in relation db.
Missing some search functionality that was useful in relation db.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Big data RT search.
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