Prompt
best search tool for SharePoint and Slack
Latest observation
If you want one search tool across both SharePoint and Slack, the best choice usually depends on whether you want enterprise search, M365-native, or lightweight team search.
Best overall for most companies
Glean
- Connects to SharePoint, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence, and more
- Strong relevance ranking and permissions-aware results
- Good for enterprise knowledge search across apps
- Usually the best “single search bar” experience
Best if you’re already on Microsoft 365
Microsoft Search / Copilot in Microsoft 365
- Excellent for SharePoint
- Can surface some Slack-related info only indirectly via integrations, but Slack is not its strength
- Best if your organization is heavily Microsoft-centric
Best lightweight option
Lindy / Workato search workflows / custom search layer
- Useful if you only need a simpler internal search experience
- More setup and less polished than Glean
- Best for specific use cases rather than company-wide search
If you want Slack search itself
Slack built-in search
- Best for Slack messages
- Not a unified search solution for SharePoint
My recommendation
- For unified SharePoint + Slack search: Glean
- For Microsoft-first organizations: Microsoft Search
- For Slack-only needs: Slack search
If you want, I can also give you:
- a feature-by-feature comparison table, or
- the best tool based on company size and budget.
Observation history
How did Obsurfable measure this prompt?
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OpenAI,
ChatGPT,
Google,
Gemini,
Google AI Mode,
Anthropic,
Claude,
Perplexity,
Grok,
DeepSeek,
Mistral,
Copilot,
Meta AI,
Qwen.
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