AddSearch

Avantages

Ease of use and integration, really easy to get in place and go with the default settings. Just drop in and it works.

Inconvénients

Options to go over the starter package and not be at enterprise level pricing. That being said, the support crew helped me get rid of some duplicate/un-needed content in the index so I was safely in the starter package.

Avantages

After evaluating over a half a dozen search vendors, including: Clerk.io, Cludo, Elastic, Swifttype, HawkSearch, Algolia, AddSearch, SearchNode and Coveo, we decided to go with AddSearch. We chose AddSearch because they offered a comprehensive list of search features. specialize in federated search, provide options for personalization and support creation of UI. Their budget fell midway between the lowest and highest and they had the shortest implementation time for ease of integration.

Inconvénients

We have had a few hiccups in technology; however, whenever we experienced search index or code issues, AddSearch's support team was quick to assist and helped us troubleshoot to resolve problems quickly.

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Pourquoi passer à AddSearch

Avantages

It helped us add search functionality to our custom website.

Inconvénients

The cost is the biggest deterrent. I'm not sure that we use the search to its full capacity

Avantages

Addsearch were willing to customize their software according to our needs. Addsearch is a reasonably cost effective site search solution, yet at the same time provide installation help, customer service, and search accuracy.
With regards to our Yahoo Store item catalog, we were able to export our item into a page file using RTML. Then we able to upload and update the items in AddSearch using their new Inventory search API library.
Next, Addsearch was able to help us in customizing the search results page to look the way we wanted to. We previously looked at Algolia Search, but with the Algolia product, customization is very difficult and the visual component, take some expertise to implement. With Addsearch however, the implementation process was quicker and easier to do. That is in part due to Addsearch helping you in that phase.
Finally, we are also very pleased with the result search dataset that is produced by Addsearch. The Addsearch search results are very accurate, fast and work well for our needs. Our electronics and computer items require an "EXACT" match, or else you will be looking at the wrong product. Addsearch was able to enhance their search algorithm to accommodate exact string matching and provide us with accurate search results.

Inconvénients

Can't think of any. Addsearch customer service and support has helped and answered all of our questions.

Avantages

As a small family-owned business with an online presence, it was critical to find a reliable, highly functional replacement for Google Site Search that wouldn't break our very small piggy bank and we found AddSearch just in the nick of time. They made it painless to sign up and integrate the AddSearch function on our website. I recall needing clarification on a couple of points and their customer service was very responsive and helpful.

Inconvénients

This fit our needs so perfectly from the start and continues to do so almost 2 years later, which is why I can honestly say there isn't anything I dislike about the software.

Avantages

We use the custom search UI to show the results in our Corporate Design style. The performance is outstanding and the possibilites the Dashboard offers are so diverse; We can add hidden keywords, use synonym groups or change the weight (relevance) of a single page in the index. You can even set the order of results for specific keywords which is really helpful in our case (big index). Custom meta tags help us to add individual labels to our search results which improves the user's understanding of what he can expect on that page.

Inconvénients

These observations only relate to technical limitations until now. It would be great if search suggestions could be filtered as well, for example to only show suggestions matching a specific site. Using handlebars.js as template library requires quite a bit to getting used to but it works well if you use custom helper functions.

Avantages

Easy to install, customize and configure to show only the pages you wish to be searchable. It also has a ranking (weight) system, which means you can pin pages to the top of your search box. I love how simple AddSearch is to use. They have a great product that you can put on your site and helps your visitors find what they are looking for. It is easy to implement and is a game-changer with indexing and searching your site with auto-fill so visitors can find what they are looking for quickly.

Inconvénients

It would be nice if they had a free plan to allow people to test their product a little more. They have a demo version but having something where people that are just starting would be nice to implement it into their site. I know I have recommended

Avantages

The staff and customers both loved the visual aspect of the search engine on the website. Its visual appeal and ease of use were great assets. In the back office, it was simple to use and set up and easy to filter the results to ensure that customers found exactly what they were meant to find.

Inconvénients

I genuinely can't think of a thing, at all points AddSearch exceeded my expectations.

Avantages

The product is very flexible and easy to work with. The customer interface is very good. It displays our content very well and makes it easy for consumers to find what they are looking for. It is very full-featured. We love the ability to add keywords to a specific URL and to pin specific URLs for a search. We can prioritize content in the search results which is great too.

AddSearch has above average customer support. They have shown me how to take advantage of features I would not have been able to use without thier assistance. They are very prompt with responses to questions.

Inconvénients

Although it is by the far the easiest to set up of any search systems we looked into it still required additional technical help. Even so it was more "out of the box" ready to use than anything else we've used.

Avantages

AddSearch is great, we've used it for 4 years now and find it is the best solution to our website's problems. It allows users to quickly search our website for hotels, holidays and destinations across the 1000+ pages we have live on our website.

Inconvénients

The price has gone up since we first joined, but I would say that they have added see new facilities which are great, So you win some you lose some.

Avantages

I think what's great about this product is you can use the search bar on multiple sites and keep the results specific to that domain through writing filters within the code. The reporting feature is nice too as you can see what your visitors are searching for on your website. You can even feed the results in your Google Analytics account! Search bar can also easily be customized using CSS to match your brand.

Inconvénients

The filtering of multiple sites can be tricky to get setup properly but their support team is great if assistance is needed. If you need to setup multiple search bars due to a responsive layout this can be tricky as you can only place a single search bar. So you're not able to do something like have one search bar in a desktop menu and another in a mobile one.

Avantages

Our biggest challenge was to find a search system where we could control which products are at the top when making a search. The price is fantastic. The support is awesome. Nice analytics tool for search queries

Inconvénients

no cons, every time i had problems, the customer service provide me excellent support.

Avantages

I was able to set it up quickly and it performed as advertised.

Inconvénients

The javascipt scripts that load the search are not asynchronous.

Avantages

The ability to catalogue different sites easily and display as collective results.

Inconvénients

The image handling is a bit hit and miss. PDF contents is a big extra cost.

Avantages

AddSearch is super easy to setup and connects fluently into both Drupal and WordPress.

Inconvénients

For a site with more than 1000 urls Professional plan is needed.

Avantages

It's fast to setup and easy to use. It provides fast preview of content being searched. Some of pros listed: Overall quality of this product, REST API integration for fast and fluent content indexing, PDF-Search, Self-learning algorithm and Google Analytics integration.

Inconvénients

In some cases it needs adjusting to get content indexed and also get content priorities set up right. Sometimes documentation can be a little short and things have to be asked from customer service.

Avantages

customer service
easy installation
amazing tech team support

Inconvénients

Pricing model: we are pleased with our current package but the next step is surprisingly pricy

Avantages

Great customer service, ability to pin results based on actual customer inquiries to make for more accurate searches

Inconvénients

Needs more pinned results to better customize customer inquiries

Avantages

It is fast, it previews the search and works well.
After investigating and testing a number of search products which were prohibitively expensive I can now say that I happily settled for Addsearch and their very responsive support team.

Inconvénients

It sometimes seems to hang hang or get confused between multiple searches or when editing a search parameter.

Avantages

Simple integration, great.looking interface. Simple backend. Really quick response time on searches, and the suppoert staff are phenomenal with lightning quick responses and knowledgable answers.

Inconvénients

None so far. We've only been using the software for a few months, but we have not encountered any negative issues.

Avantages

It was extremely easy to setup and install into our website structure. It has great thumbnails and really seems to search in a smart, intuitive way that far exceeds our previous site search.

Inconvénients

Really haven't come across any dislikes so far.

Avantages

Easy to setup
Almost plug and play
Very good customer service
Multilanguage
Price is good especially with partner deal we made

Inconvénients

PDF indexation
Recrawl flexibility
I would love to have more settings in the console to personalize my crawling

Avantages

It's very fast. Easy to use API gives many options customizing it for your own demands on the web sites.

Inconvénients

Could be even more comprehensive with social media searches. Admin panel could also have some add-on features to handle multiple sites. In total, AddSearch is an awesome tool.