G2 Vendor Directory

Google Custom Search vs. Elasticsearch

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricGoogle Custom Search

by Google

Elasticsearch

by Elastic

Overall rating4.44.5
Review count139315
Ease of use9.38.7
Ease of setup9.18.7
Quality of support8.68.8
Meets requirements8.99.1
NPS68.18181867.973856
Small Business52.5%30.3%
Mid-Market30.9%36.3%
Enterprise16.5%33.4%
Total page views5991,562
Total LLM citations57514,644

Google Custom Search

Google Custom Search enables you to create a search engine for your website, your blog, or a collection of websites

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Efficiency
  • Setup Ease
  • Search Functionality
  • Customization
  • Results

Elasticsearch

Build next generation search experiences for your customers and employees that support your organization’s technology objectives. Elasticsearch gives developers a flexible toolkit to build AI-powered search applications with an extensible platform that also provides out of the box capabilities Save development cycles and get upgraded search to market faster. Elasticsearch is the world’s most popular search engine, backed by a robust developer community.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Speed
  • Fast Search
  • Results
  • Features
  • Search Efficiency