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We performed a comparison between Google Search Appliance and IBM Watson Discovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Fast and efficient enterprise search application with query support in 40 different languages
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Stable, scalable, and has testing and conversational AI features
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    Ranking
    11th
    out of 25 in Indexing and Search
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    201
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    964
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    215
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    3
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    7.7
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    Overview

    Google Search Appliance combines the search expertise of Google with features that meet today's business requirements all in one box. As features, it allows users to lend their expertise by adding handpicked results to search queries, ensuring that relevant results appear at the top for certain keywords, analyzes user behavior and preferences to learn from experience and deliver more relevant results over time and benefits from the technology of Google.com, which evolves continually through machine learning from billions of search queries.

    Watson Discovery is an award-winning enterprise search and AI search technology that breaks open data silos and retrieves specific answers to your questions while analyzing trends and relationships buried in enterprise data. Watson Discovery applies the latest breakthroughs in machine learning, including natural language processing capabilities, and is easily trained on the language of your domain. Unlike competitors, Watson Discovery can be deployed on any cloud or on-premises environment.

    Sample Customers
    British Airways, City of Calgary, Discovery Channel, Emerson Process Management, FINRA, GoDaddy.com, Hayneedle, Hays, Honeywell Aerospace, Honeywell Transportation, Posco, Soci_t_ G_n_rale Group
    Prudential, Bradesco, Woodside
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Government17%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Retailer9%
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Google Search Appliance is ranked 11th in Indexing and Search while IBM Watson Discovery is ranked 2nd in Indexing and Search with 4 reviews. Google Search Appliance is rated 8.0, while IBM Watson Discovery is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Google Search Appliance writes "Fast and efficient enterprise search application with query support in 40 different languages". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Watson Discovery writes "Beneficial accuracy reports, highly scalable, and simple initial setup". Google Search Appliance is most compared with OpenText IDOL, whereas IBM Watson Discovery is most compared with Elastic Search and Microsoft FAST.

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