I’m a fan of Stephen Arnold’s Beyond Search blog. For anybody wanting to stay up to date on what’s happening in search I’d highly recommend it. Mr. Arnold is a world renowned expert in search and updates his blog daily. Coincidentally he’s also a fan of Perfect Search.

If you’ve read his work, you’ve likely picked out some themes. One that holds particular resonance is this idea that most believe that if you’ve got a search problem, the traditional answer is to throw hardware at it. Having a database performance issue? Throw hardware at it. Having scalability issues? Hardware. Not getting the queries per second you need? I think you get the idea.

Throwing hardware at the problem may be great for the companies selling the hardware, but from licensing to energy costs more hardware means more cost, and folks these days are a bit more cautious when it comes to pulling the trigger. As one client recently said, “People are buying cheaper, not better. . . “‘

Enter Perfect Search. Using patented algorithms and methodologies Perfect Search clients are able to actually reduce the amount of hardware required to support search and we’ve never delivered a solution that produced less than a 5 to 1 search server reduction. In most cases the server replacement ratio is actually higher. Add to that the fact that the technology produces superior query precision, blazing index and query speeds, and all at an attractive price point and Perfect Search starts to look very appealing.

Given the above, it’s no wonder that folks like Stephen Arnold and the team over at Arnold IT are fans. We’re pretty excited too.