Case study
Site Search Across Four Platforms for a Japanese Engineering Group
How SquareShift fixed crawler and indexing failures and migrated more than 200,000 documents from Swiftype to Elastic App Search across four domains for a global Japanese conglomerate.
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Client
A global Japanese conglomerate in electrical engineering and software that runs search across four B2B and B2C web platforms.
Industry
Technology
Services
Stack
Elastic App Search · Swiftype · PHP
How SquareShift delivered it.
The challenge
The client's site search ran on Swiftype, Elastic's older search product, and crawler and document problems stood in the way of moving to Elastic App Search across its four B2B and B2C platforms.
What we delivered
SquareShift worked with Elastic's Japan and US engineering teams to tune the crawler and fix indexing failures. The team migrated more than 200,000 documents from Swiftype to App Search, covering all four domains without disrupting live search. For a move off Swiftype, see our Elasticsearch migration services.
The outcome
All four B2B and B2C domains now run on a fully functional crawler, with site search reliable and real-time across every domain.
A crawler migration lives or dies on indexing accuracy, not speed — a parsing error in one place passes downstream into every search query across every domain it touches.
Platform & Software Engineering Practice Lead, SquareShift
