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Main selling points vs EPiServer Search?

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What are the differences between using EPiServer Find and EPiServer Search?

Developer differences?

User experience differences?

What are the main selling points to invest in Find instead of Search?

#76522
Oct 28, 2013 10:05
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Overview of Find features:
http://find.episerver.com/ and http://world.episerver.com/Articles/Items/General-Availability-of-EPiServer-Find/

Overview of EPiServer Full Text Search (FTS) features: 
http://world.episerver.com/Documentation/Items/Tech-Notes/EPiServer-Framework/EPiServer-Framework-61/EPiServer-Full-Text-Search-Service/

For developers, Find knocks FTS out cold. It's a breeze to setup, and a piece of cake to configure advanced, built-in features that you would have to custom-build in FTS. You'll easily google lots of inspiring blog posts on using Find - while googling FTS it seems you'll mainly find forum threads where devs struggle to get it working correctly ;-)

 

#76525
Oct 28, 2013 11:17
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Thanks for the links!

The issue with Find is that it adds a monthly cost, which I don't know if it's acceptable but that's not my call to make. I'm just researching viable options to use for an intranet site that is in the planning stages.

#76530
Oct 28, 2013 11:44
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Keep in mind with Find there's a (relatively) low monthly cost for lots of features out-of-the-box and minimum required development time. You'll also get support directly from EPiServer, minimizing the dependencies on third parties.

With FTS you'll require a lot of developer time setting it up and customizing features (well, unless you just want a barebones index and search results page). 

With other search vendors you'll likely have to pay a higher license fee and you'll be dependent on support from a third party.

 

#76534
Oct 28, 2013 12:30
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Thanks again!

#76537
Oct 28, 2013 13:13
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Find's features are awesome and I love to work with it but keep in mind that with Find you'll be adding a crucial integration point to your solution map. The hosted version has had some stability issues recently.

(I've got no experience of the on-premise version)

#76721
Oct 31, 2013 14:55
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