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Luigi's Box vs OpenText Knowledge Discovery (IDOL) comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Luigi's Box
Ranking in Indexing and Search
4th
Average Rating
9.8
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
OpenText Knowledge Discover...
Ranking in Indexing and Search
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of Luigi's Box is 2.0%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Knowledge Discovery (IDOL) is 6.4%, up from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Luigi's Box2.0%
OpenText Knowledge Discovery (IDOL)6.4%
Other91.6%
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

William Berthoud - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant sea at Aw Marketing consulting
Higher conversion rates with an advanced algorithm and intuitive interface
An area for improvement is the interface language, as our team mainly speaks French. Offering a French-language option would significantly enhance accessibility and streamline usage. Additionally, simplifying interactions with the Luigi's Box team, such as through localized support or tools tailored to non-English-speaking users, would improve collaboration. These changes would ensure a more seamless integration of the solution into our daily operations.
ERICK RAMIREZ - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead Solutions Architect at IMEXPERTS DO BRASIL
Scales linearly and vertically; primarily used in AI
If I am not wrong, IDOL is working to release improvements in new capabilities in the next six months. There is room for improvement in some very important capabilities in visual analytics. They have been focusing on improving the face recognition algorithm. The accuracy of object detection could be improved as well and I know they are working on that at the moment. I would like to see some machine learning capabilities added to the next release.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most useful feature of the Luigi's Box product is the extensive analytics. We can see in beautiful graphs what exactly visitors to our e-shop searched for."
"Luigi's Box is helpful in implementing even non-standard requirements."
"We value the smart search feature the most since it immediately offers relevant results to customers, even if they don't know the exact name of the product."
"This smart search capability significantly reduces the time customers spend searching for products, as it anticipates their needs and suggests the most pertinent results."
"Luigi's Box has brought substantial enhancements to our company, particularly by enriching the search experience on our website. Through its powerful search capabilities, our customers can effortlessly locate their desired products, resulting in heightened satisfaction and conversion rates."
"Luigi's Box increased conversion rates and improved user experience on the website."
"Luigi's Box is an excellent tool that solves our problems with the search and recommended products in the carousels."
"In analytics, we can see what our visitors can't find with us, because we can look in history to see what products they wanted to search for and couldn't find. We can see the exact number of people who wanted to find something."
"Satisfaction and ability to find relevant content has increased over 50% based on our before and after survey results."
"IDOL has several important visual analytics, like face recognition and object detection and recognition."
"Capability of processing and analysing unstructured data, like audio and video analysis."
"IDOL is a scalable solution: If a client needs to process more unstructured media content, they can scale IDOL both linearly and vertically, and you can scale this solution very easily."
"Enterprise search success (finding what documents you're looking for) has gone up over 30% with users finding their hit on the first page of results as opposed to the 2,3,4th or giving up entirely."
"Speed improvements over older Fetch architecture."
 

Cons

"More robust guidelines on optimization techniques would be highly valuable."
"Integration with GA4 and a plugin integrating with Google Looker Studio would be very useful."
"Enhancing the user interface to be more intuitive and user-friendly could significantly reduce the learning curve for new users."
"Enhancing the reporting and analytics capabilities would provide us with deeper insights into user behavior and search trends, helping us optimize our offerings further."
"It could simplify the implementation on the website."
"Our team mainly speaks French. Offering a French-language option would significantly enhance accessibility and streamline usage."
"The product is already at a very high level, but there is always room for further improvements, especially when we want to keep up with specific requirements and rapidly changing market trends."
"Deeper use of AI and ML - although with the advent of AI, new features have been implemented into Luigi's Box, there is still room for deeper integration."
"Understanding how to optimize Lua Scripting configuration to improve performance. Lua Scripts added to a CFS configuration can cause the CFS processing to slow down, if the scripts are not scoped to only run against specific indexing jobs or database content."
"IDOL's tech support needs improvement."
"Technical support could improve a lot."
"On-premise implementation and installation is very complicated."
"The interface needs to be mobile friendly, which I understand is in the backlog of future improvements."
"There is room for improvement in some very important capabilities in visual analytics. They have been focusing on improving the face recognition algorithm. The accuracy of object detection could be improved as well and I know they are working on that at the moment."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
42%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Religious Institution
8%
Construction Company
6%
Construction Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise1
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Luigi's Box?
When implementing, make the most of the knowledge of the person at Luigi's Box who will support you. They have a lot of experience.
What needs improvement with Luigi's Box?
Integration with GA4 and a plugin integrating with Google Looker Studio would be very useful. Currently, I collect data on searches in two places and I cannot conveniently combine them. The efficie...
What is your primary use case for Luigi's Box?
I mainly use Luigi's Box to manage suggestions in the search box on my e-commerce site. This tool gives me easy control over the content that is displayed to customers and allows me to shape the co...
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Also Known As

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Micro Focus IDOL, HPE Autonomy IDOL, HPE IDOL
 

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Sample Customers

Notino, Muziker, Under Armour, SFD, Lucide
RTVE, Krungthai Bank, Kainos, Capax Discovery
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