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Great search for customers to find what they need.
What do you like best about the product?
The relevancy and the immediacy of results via the dropdown on the front end.
What do you dislike about the product?
The inability to exclude people from within the company in the analytics renders this near useless as a small company. Also, it is not possible to open multiple results from a search in different tabs, however, this may be down to the way the developer installed it. Installation and set-up was fairly buggy, but again it might have more to do with the developer's process and customization on our site.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We carry a large variety of products and it can be difficult to find items in the various categories, so good quality search is vital.
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Swiftype Site Search
What do you like best about the product?
There are three big elements that I love about this service: 1) The ability to customize metadata and affect the ranking of returns based on that metadata. 2) The ease of customizing our results displayed to the user. 3) The ability to re-index our website or individual pages on demand.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, nothing. Before making the decision to use Swiftype I tested two or three other search providers. None were anywhere near as easy to use as Swiftype.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have used Google Site Search for several years and have been frustrated with our lack of control in indexing content and returning data with customized sorting.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Swiftype has been extraordinary in providing support. We only needed support because of our highly customized implementation of their service. In another implementation we used their default options and it was incredibly easy.
Swiftype changed the game for us
What do you like best about the product?
The speed of creating an engine for deployment on a new site can't be beat. And Swiftpe takes UX very seriously. The rankings/weight/synonyms settings make customizing your results a clear and satisfying task. My weekly analytics email is now essential to our content planning and overall governance. This is a product that can be appreciated by developers, designers, writers, marketers, analysts and any other members of a web team.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am sometimes unclear on the process for indexing new content.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a lot of sites and Swiftype has made deploying search a non-issue. We're now adding it to every new site we build. Prospects come to our sites looking for information and I can trust that we're able to return that information in a fast and clear way—and styled to fit each site's design.
Great data driven insights
What do you like best about the product?
You have metrics and dashboards out of the box! Mining data and taking decisions is easier
What do you dislike about the product?
Components integration for certain front end technologies are out of date, it`s easy to use but not so flexible
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We got closer to how users interact with our documentation
Exceptional customer service, excellent product
What do you like best about the product?
The customer service has been excellent. The response time for customer service is above the industry average. The autocomplete is a bonus that adds value to the product.
What do you dislike about the product?
The dashboard. It is often difficult to find how to remove and add urls especially if the url has been deleted.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Site search was paramount to the success of the business. Increased sales and customer satisfaction.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For an internal site search, it's the best solution. Once implemented, it's easy to maintain and very convenient to have the headache of site search off-loaded to someone else. The search is powerful and fast.
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.
A fantastic platform that solves a lot of problems!
What do you like best about the product?
Swiftype's indexing allows you to sit back and let it do its work, this is different from the others that require you to keep the index up to date by creating and updating certain records. We have learned a lot about our users from the analytics solution it provides with every package.
What do you dislike about the product?
Obviously, the price. We have been a customer since it started and seen the pricing move away providing great search at a low cost into a solution for the rich start-ups.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
You don't know you have a poor search function until you start to really use it for anything, as an example we are a safety company so every product has the word safety in it somewhere. This ok until you search for safety gloves because it will match everything else before it comes to gloves. Context and intelligence are therefore needed and provided by Swiftype.
Excellent onsite search - out of the box
What do you like best about the product?
Swiftype supports frontend-indexing. No matter the system behind your sites, the Swiftype crawler will find the content and add it to your desired index. This is a huge advantage compared to other enterprise onsite search solution where you need to implement API oder Database connectors.
You can also define the content and the content weight that gets crawled. It is possible to send metadata so that search results can be enriched with data like price and availability.
This is a very good concept for most small/mid size companies like us.
You can also define the content and the content weight that gets crawled. It is possible to send metadata so that search results can be enriched with data like price and availability.
This is a very good concept for most small/mid size companies like us.
What do you dislike about the product?
Because of the frontend indexing new content is not added in realtime. However you are able to manually reindex your sites if you don't want to wait for the regular period to do so. Depending on the plan you have choosen this can be done multiple times or once.
We disliked the fact that pricing raised in the past. But it is still worth the money.
We disliked the fact that pricing raised in the past. But it is still worth the money.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One onsite search for all our Systems (Content-Managemnt-System, E-commerce Shop, Support-Center, Landingpages, Microsites) with little configuration needed.
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 Search Tool for our Help Center
What do you like best about the product?
Easy implementation, customization and good reports.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing special, I am very satisfied with the product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Site search for our Help Center
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