SearchStax Site Search solution gives marketers the agility they need to optimize website outcomes.
Product Overview
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Product Overview
Search is more than just a box on your website — it’s how users discover what matters most. While both SearchStax and Yext offer powerful search tools, the difference lies in the support, flexibility and value brought to complex, content-rich digital environments and the use cases where each thrives.
SearchStax is purpose-built for organizations managing sprawling sites, multiple domains and ever-growing content. From higher education to healthcare, our customers choose SearchStax when they need control, clarity and a partner that sticks with them long after onboarding.
SearchStax enables unified search across multiple domains and subdomains, delivering a seamless experience to your users without clunky workarounds. Whether you’re managing a .edu with microsites, a network of health system service pages or a local government site, SearchStax surfaces the right content from the right source — all in one place.
A recurring theme from teams who switched from Yext: they felt left on their own post-implementation. Yext staff interactions were often reactive, delayed or limited to renewal cycles. In contrast, SearchStax provides dedicated onboarding, responsive support and regular strategy check-ins. We’re invested in your success, not just your signature.
“SearchStax onboarding was absolutely fantastic. The customer success team was great. We moved very fast—and support has been top-tier ever since.”
SearchStax delivers powerful features and services without the heavy development lift. Our crawler and ingest APIs make for a seamless transition on initial setup compared to Yext’s need for custom schema to ingest certain data. Additionally, Yext requires proprietary Hitchhikers dev framework plus React where SearchStax provides easy-to-use UI kits and templates in common dev frameworks.
Unlike Yext, which originated with structured listings and local SEO use cases, SearchStax was built to support content-heavy websites with complex structures. If you manage:
…then SearchStax is the search solution that grows with you.
| SearchStax | Yext | |
|---|---|---|
| Unified Cross-Domain Search | Limited | |
| Personalized Support | Included | Reactive/Renewal-focused |
| Built for Content-Rich Sites | Higher ed, healthcare, gov | More retail/location-driven |
| Fast Implementation | Weeks, not months | May require heavy setup |
| Visual Relevance Tuning | ||
| AI-Powered Search | Practical AI built in | Included |
| Dashboard Insights & Reporting | Robust | Basic unless customized |
| Budget Flexibility | Cost-effective TCO | Higher cost at scale |
| No-Code Configuration | Marketer-friendly tools | Limited customization |
SearchStax prioritizes core search principles like relevancy, accuracy and control while implementing a practical use of AI.
SearchStax’s intuitive dashboard empowers marketing and content teams to tune search relevance, easily identify relevant synonyms with the help of AI and optimize experiences without needing developer intervention.
This puts more power in the hands of web experience teams to move fast, be more responsive to visitors’ needs and have an overall better sense of ownership over their search experience. With more visitors favoring the search bar as their primary means for navigation, having more agility to tune your search is a must-have.
SearchStax currently offers AI features that upgrade the search experience for both visitors and web teams.
Smart Match Assist surfaces suggested synonyms based on search data that’s pouring into your search bar to help your team decide, with a single click, whether to accept or reject those suggestions.
Smart Ranking uses natural language processing to understand the deeper meaning of your visitors’ questions and reorders results to guarantee the most relevant pages show up first.
Smart Answers summarizes content from your existing pages into a clear, direct answer to your visitors’ questions right on top of your traditional results.
The difference with SearchStax’s AI features is that we take a practical approach to AI. It’s all about empowering human intelligence and expertise, not replacing it.
“Smart Ranking has made a noticeable difference in our site search experience. Average click position is up 37%, and we’ve seen a 16% boost in click-through rate, thanks to technology that actually understands the intent behind search queries and fine-tunes our relevance model.”
Customers report going live in weeks, not months — with a meaningful lift in engagement and content discovery. After going live, our customers experience rapid improvements in their onsite search metrics.
From search click-through rate improvements showing improved engagement, to no-results searches decreasing from improved content strategy and reduced gaps, our customers are seeing the upgrade to onsite search make a major impact on content delivery and overall visitor experience.
A premier institution in chiropractic education, moved away from Yext after growing frustrated with:
By switching to SearchStax, they are now able to provide a true cross-domain experience, leverage search analytics to close content gaps and receive regular guidance from a hands-on support team.
“Yext only really contacted us around renewal. With SearchStax, we have real partners helping us optimize continuously.”
Creating a front end experience that’s as powerful as your underlying search technology should not be a heavy lift.
SearchStax Site Search empowers your team to set up an engaging search solution with Search UI Kits, APIs and native connectors for popular CMSs, including Sitecore and Drupal.
Development and design teams can easily deliver, iterate and improve search experiences while providing a seamless visual experience and straight-forward deployment.
SearchStax has a 4.5 out of 5 rating on G2. Read reviews from some of our happy customers
Taela W.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
“We have been searching for a quality product like this for a while … and this product has fulfilled all our requirements and some. This product is as good as we will get and we are so happy with it.”
Gopikrishna Reddy G.
Small-Business
Sabina F.
Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
“The SearchStax Site Search product has amazing functionality that has been easy to integrate with Sitecore. We gained valuable insight into how our customers use the search features on the website and what they are searching for (through the excellent analytics provided by the dashboard), which made the search experience easier to personalize. We wanted to use the product to manage searching on a multilingual website, a feature that wasn’t available when we started the implementation. However, when we mentioned the business need for this, the team assured us they were working on it, and, sure enough, they released the multi-language feature and helped us integrate it. The team was always very receptive to feedback and, as a result, even released a new feature in a matter of weeks when we presented a client use case for it.”
Randall W.
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
“The SearchStax team actively listens to our feedback and has implemented features that have significantly enhanced the value of their tools. They continuously introduce new capabilities, such as machine learning and AI, which have greatly improved our users’ ability to quickly and easily find content. Our customer representative regularly reviews our analytics and provides valuable recommendations for optimizing our search functionality.”
Shawn H.
Web SpecialistEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
“I like best the ease of use and the robust feature set that SearchStax offers. The platform is intuitive, making it easy to manage and optimize our search functionality without requiring extensive technical knowledge. Additionally, their customer support is responsive and helpful, which has made our experience even better.”
Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
“I really like the Searches Dashboard. I like how it is set up by popular searches, no result searches and searches with no clicks. I like to see the search count and percentages. I like control of the stopwords. I like how we were able to incorporate a better filter system for our directory. I like the great customer support we have been given with directory features. I use it daily.”
SearchStax is best for organizations who need:
Yext may be a good option for organizations who prioritize:
