AppSearch Crawler Improvement for a Japanese Electric Company
Client
The client is a global Japanese conglomerate in electrical engineering and software solutions. Their products and services span industrial control, automation, metering, and web software for various B2B and B2C domains.
Project Context
The client maintained four domain-specific PHP web applications and relied on Swiftype (Elastic's legacy solution) for document search. They wanted to migrate to Elastic AppSearch but faced challenges in crawler tuning and document ingestion.
Challenges
- Lack of experience with Elastic AppSearch
- Coordination across Japanese and US dev teams
- Migrating 200K documents without disrupting the search experience
Solution
- Worked directly with Elastic Japan and US engineering teams
- Tuned crawler settings, resolved indexing failures
- Ensured all 4 domains were covered and migrated
Project Objectives
- Fix AppSearch crawler errors
- Improve indexing logic for 200K+ documents
- Migrate Swiftype configuration to AppSearch
Solution Delivery
SquareShift implemented a fully functional Elastic AppSearch crawler, resolved incompatibilities, and migrated 200K documents from Swiftype, enabling real-time and reliable site search.
Testimonial
SquareShift’s crawler fixes brought our multilingual web search back to life
