Wherever people encounter a search bar (whether it’s on Google, on a mobile app or while shopping online), they are conditioned to expect a search experience that delivers fast and relevant results. With this evolving expectation in mind, Elasticsearch has been chosen by millions of developers and organizations over the years to build a powerful content discovery experience, and its audience and user base have been very satisfied over the years. After seeing how the team can leverage Elasticsearch in the context of full-text Search, we built Elastic App Search, a free product that makes it easier than ever to launch a modern Search experience with Elasticsearch.
The motivation behind App Search is multifaceted. First and foremost, we’ve been working to make our products easier to use, and App Search shows that by providing out-of-the-box typos Search, pre-tuned multilingual relevance, and a powerful administrative dashboard, we’ve simplified most of our work without sacrificing flexibility.
Visually adjust the correlation model and preview the impact on search results in real time.
Another motivation is our core belief that you don’t have to be a search expert to be a great search experience. With App Search, we aim to democratize access to a powerful, modern Search experience — not just for developers, but also for the many webmasters, support experts, and marketing teams that typically operate in low-tech environments.
Why make app search free?
Without good search conditions, businesses and their customers suffer. It is now essential to our daily life. We shop online, browse solutions on support websites, find places to eat or search for important information on local government websites. As more and more of the information we use is consumed digitally, the need for excellent search in all sorts of situations grows.
In many cases, the upfront cost of proprietary software is prohibitive, especially if the scope of the project is unclear or the use cases are innovative experiments. The free and open model of our software removes the burden of choosing it. Our customers have been using Elastic Stack for years for this reason, avoiding the trouble that proprietary software often brings, and – crucially – enjoying the advantage of software that can be extended to meet their own needs, not ours. We’ve brought that same philosophy to Elastic App Search, making it easy for our users to adopt and adapt it to suit the needs of businesses large and small.
What is Elastic App Search?
App Search is a free product that runs with Elasticsearch and simplifies the process of building a rich Search experience. It is professionally tuned and offers a fully configured version of Elasticsearch’s key features that can be used for production implementations: out-of-the-box implementations that enable fast auto-complete, typos tolerance, faceted and filtering, and highly relevant results. In addition to these core features, App Search includes a powerful administrative dashboard to assist you during development and later to help you customize your Search engine with powerful relevance customization and detailed analysis (which can be collected automatically).
Instant content index is easy to get up and running in minutes
With ready-to-use features like relevancy adjustment, synonyms, and curation, search and content manager can adjust default algorithm behavior through an intuitive point-and-click interface, so your search ADAPTS to the changing world without any coding. Similarly, App Search’s built-in analytics turn a user’s Search behavior into actionable data points to improve relevancy and engagement, without any unexpected add-ons.
We also put a lot of effort into developing free and open developer tools to complement App Search. These include our Search UI JavaScript library and native API clients in a variety of popular languages. Search UI makes us strive to simplify the entire development process of your front-end code by making it easy to add javasjavast-enabled UI components, such as auto-complete drop-down lists or Search filters.
Use the Search UI to add the application’s search-enabled Search box to your React application
Big things start small
Regardless of size, your project should consider a given excellent search. Application search allows you to focus on solving your own problems and have a powerful and rich search experience. Overpricing only discourages innovation: success comes from technologies that support innovation early, not technologies that hinder it. The little proof of concept you start today may one day become the cornerstone of your company.
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At the heart of everything we do at Elastic is Elasticsearch, the world’s leading open source search engine. Elasticsearch has been designed for speed, scalability and relevance, making it a core foundation technology for App Search, allowing us to take full advantage of these advantages while still creating a more rounded experience for our users.
Our goal remains the same: to make excellent search available to all. That’s why you can download Elastic App Search for free so you can install and manage it on your own infrastructure or deploy it on Elastic Cloud; In these environments, our resource-based pricing model charges only for the base server resources consumed.
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Download and run Elastic App Search for free, or upgrade to the latest version hosted on your Cloud platform of choice, and offer a free 14-day trial of Elastic Cloud. Interact with the passionate community of Elastic App Search users on our discussion forums and tell us what you think. We are happy to see your creations.