Indexing non-Drupal websites in Azure-hosted Drupal site

Question

Our Azure-hosted Drupal website only searches its own content. Is there a way to index public non-Drupal websites in our organization to have one search returning results? I was thinking of Bing Custom Search or Azure AI Search. But we have a small communication team that will configure the search for their content, and they are non-IT. What out-of-the-box tools are available that are intuitive and require minimal maintenance? Looking forward to your thoughts and suggestions.

Answer 1

@Victor Prasad Thanks for reaching here! AI Search is a PaaS Service and is not a direct user-facing service but requires an application to be built to be exposed to users and to handle the customer calls, also there is no low-code support for URLs in our service, but a URL crawler library will have to be used instead to get the data and push the data in the index.

Based on the description you provide, it looks like they are looking for a close-to SaaS search service.

I would start with Bing Custom Search https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/search-apis/bing-custom-search/how-to/quick-start to check if that would satisfy all of your business needs. 

Please let us know.

Answer 2

Thanks!

Bing makes more sense!

Please show me where to find more info on the low code solution.