Elastic Site Search

Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) alternative, built on Elasticsearch

Elastic Site Search is a hosted, ad-free alternative to CSE that provides website owners complete control over their search results through an intuitive dashboard. With Elastic Site Search, you can deliver elegant, customizable search with always-relevant results.

A search experience under your control

With CSE you can’t be sure about what’s going to show up in your search results (such as ads, maybe even from your competitors). With Elastic Site Search, you can easily craft the exact search experience you want, rather than relying on a Google algorithm and hoping for the best.

Strategic, stable, scalable, supported

A search solution shouldn’t be an afterthought or a generic default, but rather a critical component of your website experience — one that can grow with your business, is backed by a full support team, and closely aligns with your brand.

Powerful relevance, powerful customization

Elastic Site Search is backed by Elasticsearch, with relevance models optimized for real-life search. You get tolerance for typos, bigram matching (high heels = highheels), stemming (car = cars), and more, right out of the box.

Built-in analytics

Built-in analytics

Track and analyze search behavior and performance to determine where your search engine can be customized and improved.

Autocomplete

Autocomplete

Suggest results as a query is typed, allowing your audience or customers to get to the right content before finishing their thoughts.

Faceted search

Faceted search

Add filters to help users refine search results by attributes such as date, price, author, location, or content type.

Custom result ranking

Custom result ranking

Fine-tune results through an intuitive interface to deliver the most relevant results by default for every search.

Weights

Weights

Adjust search relevance to promote content and impact your results, helping you meet your specific goals.

Synonyms

Synonyms

Direct users to the right content, no matter the query by creating associations between search terms.

14-day trial: Get started in minutes

Replace CSE with Elastic’s seamless content ingestion, rich relevancy algorithm, and intuitive admin dashboard. Get started with your 14-day free trial.

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