Comparative analysis of some of the best-known search systems
Having an e-commerce business entails, among other things, the need to make it easier for potential new customers to search for products within online shopping. In recent years, real search systems have been created in the form of software that take advantage of artificial intelligence, ensuring a very intuitive and functional search for users.
Doofinder: from visual search to multi-index search
Doofinder, for example, allows you to add the following search functions to your e-commerce:
- Intelligent search: the Natural Language Processing search engine can figure out what consumers are looking for by synonyms and filtering out misspellings. It predicts what they are looking for and suggests the best results.
- Apply search filters: allows users to filter search results by price, color, size, brand, etc.
- AI Personalization Real-Time Learning: Doofinder AI learns the user’s movements and interests in real time to deliver personalized search results based on each user’s behavior and preferences.
- Visual search: image search, allows customers to search for products within e-commerce by uploading photographs from their mobile device.
- Design Types: fits any search engine respecting all types of custom designs.
- Multi-index search: presents several contents simultaneously. In particular, with Doofinder you can simultaneously show content from different sources, such as the blog or FAQ section.
- Geolocated search: makes use of geolocation of users to optimize results.
- Search API: You can do anything you imagine with Doofinder’s search technology.
Such characteristics are a necessary prerogative for a competitive research system. In fact, the other two systems analyzed below also have almost the same peculiarities.
Algolia and FACT-Finder: what are the differences with Doofinder?
Algolia, unlike Doofinder, seems to offer more information on the use of the search system in mobile platforms. In addition, Algolia places considerable emphasis on embedding its system within APPs for online sales and provides various digital training content for developers.
For its part, FACT-Finder works through customizable modules and clearly distinguishes between B2B and B2C platforms. It emerges among the most widely used online search systems by large retail chains.
Platforms and prices in detail:
Three search systems for three different types of users
In conclusion, Algolia provides a very low price range and could be useful even for a small e-commerce site up to large mobile sales apps. Doofinder, on the other hand, offers a price for a mid-range, assessable for a medium to large e-commerce. FACT-Finder, finally, boasts really famous brands and, as a result, the cost of the service has adjusted to this type of clientele.