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Google Search Appliance vs IBM Watson Discovery comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Google Search Appliance
Ranking in Indexing and Search
13th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Watson Discovery
Ranking in Indexing and Search
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of Google Search Appliance is 0.7%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Watson Discovery is 3.7%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

it_user1227 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 23, 2012
Fast and efficient enterprise search application with query support in 40 different languages
A very good enterprise search application. Search results are produced pretty fast and the contents gets re-index quite often which ensures that the search results are not stale. The Administrative Interface is very easy to use and has a lot of useful information. The number of pages crawled by google search appliance is quite high compared other tools in the same domain. Another good feature of Google search appliance is that, the search index keeps getting updated for every update to any doc and removal of any doc actual clears the corresponding entry in the search index ensuring that non-existent entries don't show up in the results page. Search results can be grouped in various collections e.g. university collections, medical collections etc. Google Search Appliance very smartly handles the synonyms, as can be seen in the "narrow your search" feature. Indexing of content can be easily configured by specifying URLs
Geraldo Lima - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 12, 2023
Stable, scalable, and has testing and conversational AI features
The total time it takes to deploy IBM Watson Discovery depends on the documents you'll be working with. For example, I was in a situation where I was working with some painting files and folders for a painting store. The store had PDF documents, but the information was mixed up, so I had to treat the documents on IBM Watson Discovery, and discovering and understanding each PDF file took longer. The process is more straightforward for plain documents, and you have to work with questions that will help IBM Watson Discovery understand the documents. The time to deploy the product depends on the quantity and type of documents you'll be working with.

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
22%
Government
16%
Financial Services Firm
14%
University
9%
 

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What do you like most about IBM Watson Discovery?
The most valuable feature of IBM Watson Discovery is testing, mainly because the product applies conversational AI, which means I can ask questions to get the information I want from a specific tes...
What needs improvement with IBM Watson Discovery?
The pricing is an area for improvement in IBM Watson Discovery because the customer initially used the free version. Still, when he needed more questions and documents, he had to move to a differen...
 

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