Prompt
What enterprise search tool is best for support teams?
Latest observation
The best enterprise search tool for support teams is usually the one that can search across your ticketing system, knowledge base, chat, docs, and CRM with strong relevance, access controls, and fast setup.
Top picks by common need
- Glean — Often the best overall for support teams if you want Google-like search across many internal tools (Slack, Zendesk, Confluence, Google Drive, etc.) with strong permissions handling and good relevance.
- Coveo — Best if you need more advanced enterprise relevance, customer/self-service search, and heavy customization.
- Elastic / OpenSearch — Best if you have engineering resources and want maximum control and can build the support workflows yourself.
- Microsoft Viva Topics / Microsoft Search — Best if your support team lives mostly in Microsoft 365 / Teams / SharePoint.
- Algolia — Best for customer-facing search and help centers, less ideal as a broad internal enterprise search platform.
For most support teams
If your goal is to help agents quickly find:
- past ticket resolutions
- internal runbooks
- product docs
- Slack/Teams discussions
- customer account context
then Glean is usually the strongest default choice.
What matters most for support use cases
Look for:
- Connectors to Zendesk, Salesforce, Jira, Confluence, Slack/Teams, Drive
- Permission-aware search
- Good ranking/relevance
- AI answers / summarization
- Fast deployment
- Analytics on what agents search for and can’t find
If you want, I can also give you:
- a top 5 comparison table
- recommendations based on your stack
- or a buy-vs-build decision guide for support search.
Observation history
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Google,
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Google AI Mode,
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Claude,
Perplexity,
Grok,
DeepSeek,
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Copilot,
Meta AI,
Qwen.
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