When it comes to investing in a search appliance for your business or organization, Thunderstone stands above its competitors, including the Google Search Appliance.
While the Thunderstone Search Appliance offers full wildcard abilities, the Google Search appliance only works for whole words only. Google Search Appliance will also not highlight PDF hits, unlike Thunderstone. Additionally, the Thunderstone Search Appliance benefits you by removing and adding URLs in real time, reading, indexing, and following JavaScript and Shockwave/Flash, removing duplicates and common elements, and indexing file servers without setting up a web server.
What's more the Thunderstone Search Appliance is a better investment than what Google offers. Not only is Thunderstone's initial investment less than the Google Search Appliance price, we offer a perpetual license with ongoing maintenance and support. Google requires a lease renewal at full cost every two to three years.
Compare Thunderstone's Search Appliance with the Google Search Appliance with the chart below to see the clear advantages of the Thunderstone™ Search Appliance.
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PERFORMANCE | ||
Number of Pages Supported | 50,000 and up | 50,000 and up |
INVESTMENT (Cost of Ownership) | ||
Startup Cost | $3,990 | Unavailable |
License Type | Perpetual | Perpetual |
Maintenance and Support (first two years) | included | included |
Maintenance and Support (years 3+) | Available | Requires repurchase at full cost |
QUERIES | ||
Detect misspellings and suggest corrections | Yes | Yes |
Search multiple file types, including HTML, Office and PDF | Yes | Yes |
Standard Thesaurus | Yes | Yes |
Custom Thesaurus | Yes | Yes |
Advanced Search | Yes | Yes |
Stemming | Yes | No |
Wildcard | Yes | No |
Metasearch (across collections) | Yes | Yes |
SEARCH RESULTS | ||
Relevance Ranking | Customizable | Fixed |
Sort results by date | Yes | Yes |
Query terms highlighted | Yes | Yes |
Dynamic summaries | Yes | Yes |
Highlighting PDF hits | Yes | No |
Force to top (Best Bets, Keymatch) | Yes | Yes |
CRAWLING | ||
Crawl third-party websites | Yes | No |
Index documents on multiple servers | Yes | Yes |
Filter by file types, meta tags, web sites | Yes | Yes |
Crawl dynamic content | Yes | Yes |
Crawl password protected areas | Yes | Yes |
Forms-based authentication | Yes | No |
Continuous crawl | Yes | No |
Multiple collections | Yes | No |
Read, index and follow JavaScript | Yes | No |
Read, index and follow Shockwave/Flash | Yes | No |
Index file servers without setting up a web server | Yes | No |
Remove common (navigation menus etc) | Yes | No |
Duplicate Removal | Yes | No |
Lotus Domino | Yes | Yes |
Proxy Server Support | Yes | Yes |
ADMINISTRATION | ||
Web-based Administration Console | Yes | Yes |
Search results customizable with XSLT templates | Yes | Yes |
Document Level Security | Yes | No |
Web-based reports | Yes | Yes |
URL Tracking | Yes | Yes |
Remote Management - anytime anywhere | Yes | Yes |
Remove URLs in real-time | Yes | No |
Add URLs in real-time | Yes | No |
Remote Diagnostics | Yes | No |
Support includes major releases | Yes | No |
Telephone support | Yes | No |
INTEGRATION | ||
Content Management | Yes | Yes |
Index most languages | Yes | Yes |
XML output option | Yes | Yes |
Contact us for more information about the benefits of the Thunderstone Search Appliance and to set up a demonstration with your own data.
Feature list based on Google Product Features web pages.
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