Enterprise search, explained clearly

Fundamentals

What Is Enterprise Search? (And Why AI Changed It)

Enterprise search is how employees find answers across all the apps a company runs. Here is what it is, why it was historically painful, and how AI turned a wall of links into one cited answer.

June 2026 · 8 min read

How it works

How Does AI Enterprise Search Work? Connectors, RAG, Permissions and Citations

AI enterprise search connects your apps, retrieves the right content, respects each person's permissions, and writes a cited answer. Here is how the pipeline actually works, step by step.

June 2026 · 9 min read

Buyer's guide

Best Enterprise Search Tools in 2026: A Practical Buyer's Guide

The best enterprise search tools in 2026 compared on what matters: cross-app coverage, cited answers, permission handling and data privacy. An honest buyer's guide, InSearch included.

June 2026 · 11 min read

Fundamentals

RAG vs Enterprise Search: How Grounded Answers Differ From Keyword Results

RAG vs enterprise search is not either/or. Here is how retrieval-augmented generation grounds an AI answer in your real documents, and how it relates to classic enterprise search.

June 2026 · 9 min read

Security

Permission-Aware Enterprise Search: Why Item-Level Permissions Are the Enterprise Unlock

Permission-aware enterprise search is the difference between a pilot and a company-wide rollout. Here is why item-level permissions are the real unlock, and how they should work.

June 2026 · 9 min read

Migration

Amazon Kendra Is in Maintenance Mode: Your Migration Options in 2026

AWS put Amazon Kendra into maintenance mode on June 30, 2026, and it closes to new customers on July 30. Here is exactly what changed, what Bedrock Knowledge Bases does and does not replace, and the three honest migration paths.

July 2026 · 10 min read

Buying guide

How Much Does Enterprise Search Software Cost in 2026?

Per seat, bundled, or metered on infrastructure: the three pricing models in enterprise search, what the market actually charges, and the four costs that are never on the price list.

July 2026 · 9 min read

Buyer's guide

Enterprise Search Vendors in 2026: Who Got Acquired, Frozen or Retired

Kendra is frozen, Elastic Workplace Search is gone, Sinequa belongs to ChapsVision and Moveworks belongs to ServiceNow. Four vendor events in eighteen months, what each one actually means, and how to run an evaluation now.

July 2026 · 9 min read

Migration

Bedrock Knowledge Base vs Kendra: What You Actually Have to Rebuild

The retrieval API maps over in a day. The 25 missing connectors, the metadata redesign, the chunking strategy and the six features AWS says need workarounds are the real project. A work breakdown for the Kendra migration.

July 2026 · 10 min read

Migration

Elastic Workplace Search End of Life: Migration Options in 2026

Elastic Workplace Search is not deprecated, it is gone: removed in 9.0, with End of Support on July 15, 2027. Here is what Elastic actually announced, what you have to rebuild yourself, and the three honest migration paths.

July 2026 · 9 min read

How to

How to Search Slack, Google Drive and Confluence at Once

No app can search the other two, because each only indexes its own content. Here are the three real options, the search operators worth learning, and why permissions are the hard part nobody budgets for.

July 2026 · 8 min read

Buyer's guide

Open-Source Enterprise Search: Should You Self-Host or Buy?

Open-source enterprise search like Onyx is genuinely good, and free to download. But the license is free while the running of it is not. Here is the honest cost ledger, and how to decide between self-hosting and buying a managed tool.

July 2026 · 9 min read

Buyer's guide

Deep Document Analysis vs Enterprise Search: Which AI Tool Do You Need?

Deep document-analysis tools like Hebbia and enterprise search get compared constantly, and they should not be. One goes deep on a corpus you assemble; the other goes wide across the apps where work already lives. Here is how to tell which job is yours.

July 2026 · 9 min read

Buyer's guide

Knowledge Base vs Enterprise Search: Do You Need to Build a Library?

A knowledge base is a curated library you publish content into. Enterprise search finds answers across the apps where work already lives, with nothing to migrate. Here is when to build one, when to search instead, and why most companies need both.

July 2026 · 9 min read