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Not so great
What do you like best about the product?
It works, whenever you remember to force a crawl update.
What do you dislike about the product?
Does not directly integrate into Magento (so a single search, turns up as 8 search results, due to Magento's caching methods). The Analytics are completely out to lunch and inaccurate (you cannot exclude search queries by IP, so you cannot remove internally generated searches). Basically makes the Analytics useless. Too expensive for the results and lack of useable analytics.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Faster searching, decently better SEO results from good search indexing.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Find alternative options if you are using it with Magento 2. It does not integrate at all, and causes a lot of false search data. Id recommend InstantSearch+ or ElasticSearch over this product. We are getting rid of this product, due to the lack of useable Analytics and the high cost ($500/month).
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Simple and Intuitive Replacement for Google Search
What do you like best about the product?
The coding was simple and integrated into our site flawlessly. The search functions offers greater capability than we had with Google Search and delivers useful analytics.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am not sure why I haven't heard of Swiftype before we were forced to migrate. I think this would have been a valuable search engine for our site years ago.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can track what products are being searched the most, which provides insight to what is relevant. Our company is also benefiting from the predictive search since many of our products have multiple names.
Easy to integrate. Reasonable price.
What do you like best about the product?
Their custom crawler made our life a lot easier.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing can be prohibitive for small business.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Internal text search and search result tuning.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Review pricing.
Review for swiftype
What do you like best about the product?
They provide easy UI on swiftype.com and APIs which are able to intergrated easily and rapidly.
What do you dislike about the product?
I hope they provide more examples and codes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The swiftype's search engine are very fast and we don't need any storage. So they resolve our concern.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need search engine with less cost, I recommend this product. I believe you are able to integrate it simply.
Easy to use, easy to understand.
What do you like best about the product?
I love how simple and easy to use their platform is. Our previous on-site search system was very complicated and didn't make it easy to see the low-hanging fruit. I also really enjoy utilize the result ranking tool and the analytics.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do wish that you could get more of the synonym features without having to jump up to a much higher price point. We are a small company and just can't afford to spend that much on-site search.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have gotten a lot better at analyzing the site searches our customers are making because Swiftype has excellent analytics and insights. We have also gotten a lot better at creating pinned search results so that we control what our customers find when they search on our site.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you can afford it, I would suggest getting the enterprise version. It's a higher price, but you get more features.
Easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
It's quick and easy to customized. I like that any change or preferences I make is instantly reflected.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish it was initiative, like misspelled words could be matched automatically to something similar. Keeping up with synonyms is impossible, since people spell things in so many ways.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
What people are looking for, and how they misspell things.
Very good
What do you like best about the product?
Understand fully which features you need and how you will use them before buying.
What do you dislike about the product?
Before I could not control what shows up on our search results
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Now I could not control what shows up on our search results
Best open source search database
What do you like best about the product?
One of the Best open source fulltext searching database I ever worked.
What do you dislike about the product?
Index time and database back up restore complexity
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Searching through formatted contents and search relevance based on different fields and formatting
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best open source search database
Excellent Site Search Solution
What do you like best about the product?
Swiftype Site Search is very easy to use and I was able to implement the basic search functionality in about an hour. It's also very powerful and customizable to meet specific business needs. Their support has been very friendly and helpful when I needed additional assistance.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no way to customize the fields of indexed PDF and Word documents.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our website needed to migrate off of unsupported Google search solutions to a more modern and powerful search solution. Swiftype has been very easy to implement and is faster and delivers more relevant results and advanced functionality not previously available with our previous search solution.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Highly recommended. Sure, it's possible to build a site search solution yourself from various open source solutions, but that requires a team with specialized knowledge capable of customizing, integrating, and maintaining the various pieces. Swiftype is a much more cost-effective turnkey solution in my opinion.
Developing with Swiftype is quite easy with detailed documentation and high-qaulity support
What do you like best about the product?
Swiftype's documentation is very extensive and thorough, which was extremely helpful in the development process. Support staff was frequently very quick to respond with detailed and helpful responses , not to mention a cheerful attitude, making for a pleasant experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
So much documentation did take a lot of time to digest. Perhaps the addition of of video step-by-step tutorials for the jQuery plugin integration might be helpful to first-time users of Swiftype's Advanced features.
There are numerous differences between Swiftype and Google Custom Search, which was in my experience the most popular custom search integration for many clients I had worked with. Since Google is deprecating their Custom Search product, I think that for clients switching form Google to Swiftype, a comparison article would be helpful in working on transition projects.
There are numerous differences between Swiftype and Google Custom Search, which was in my experience the most popular custom search integration for many clients I had worked with. Since Google is deprecating their Custom Search product, I think that for clients switching form Google to Swiftype, a comparison article would be helpful in working on transition projects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Customized site search with advanced filtering capabilities build with JavaScript using their jQuery plugins
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