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title: "The search evaluation handbook"
description: "The average team now juggles more apps than it can name, and every one of them hides a few answers. A free guide from Acme."
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site: "Acme"
type: "Guide"
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# The search evaluation handbook

The average team now juggles more apps than it can name, and every one of them hides a few answers. This handbook is for the people asked to pick a search tool for the whole company: it explains which capabilities separate a pilot that fizzles from one that spreads, and it gives you a scoring sheet to run the comparison yourself.

## What you'll learn

Learn how to run a fair, fast search evaluation

- Which features you can't live without, and which ones only look good in a demo
- How to build a test set from the questions your colleagues really ask
- How to estimate the hours a well-run rollout gives back each week

## What to score in every search tool

- Index coverage
- Access controls
- Natural-language queries
- Time to deploy
- Relevance tuning
- Everyday usability
- App integrations