If your site is WordPress site, you don’t need to be publicly accessible as the site indexing is performed via the WordPress plugin.
Otherwise, your site needs to be indexed by our crawler that requires your site to be publicly accessible.
(1) GSS only gives you 1000 records in search result and we give your clients all.
(2) GSS doesn’t allow you to control the order of their results, whereas we allow you to have that control from your SearchIQ account.
(3) GSS provides predefined search/promote box, we don’t have that yet.
(4) Since you are using our javascript-based product, your site is indexed every 24 hours and I think Google is doing similar.
(5) GSS doesn’t provide you a big size thumbnail as we do.
(6) Our support team should be way more active when you have questions related to our service than google.
Yes. If you have a test site under as another subdomain, you can index it as well for testing purpose.
For non-wordpress site, you don’t need to install our javascript tag to the html header right after your site is indexed. Instead, you can download our chrome plugin and paste our javascript tag there. This way, you can see your site working with our SearchIQ before you decide putting our tag to the header of your site.
Chrome plugin download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r31crgiltxie9q6/replace-url.zip?dl=0
Yes, you need to use our javascript-based product that will come with google-like spider to index your site.
For FREE WordPress site, our plugin will generate thumbnails on your machine and we will use on autocomplete and result page.
For FREE non-WordPress site, we will resize your original image on the fly.
For any paid users, we will generate thumbnails on our servers and distribute them through CDN to achieve the best user experience.