​We’re all so familiar with the search box. It lives on our phones, on websites and pretty much everywhere. When we’re looking for, lets say, a product, we take out our phones and start searching for it. A few letters in, the search starts giving you suggestions as to what you might be looking for and more often than not you would select one of those suggestions and move forward.

What is an autocomplete or autosuggest feature in search? Autocomplete or autosuggest uses the partial search terms that a user is typing in to complete the rest of the search query so the user can simply click to search from a drop down box in the search form. 

SearchBlox is happy to announce the release of version 9.0. The new release has switched to using Java 11 as a standard. Also, SearchBlox now uses Open Distro Elasticsearch to provide a 100% Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch and Kibana distribution that is supported by Amazon Web Services and other corporate organizations. The built-in security, SQL support and alerting features offer a range of use cases for customers using SearchBlox. 

When customers are planning to add search to their website, application or solution, the most commonly discussed option is to use Elasticsearch. Customers are faced with the option of building on their own using internal/external IT teams or purchasing a product/service which can enable enterprise search for their organization.