Ecommerce search and merchandising · RankedHawksearch
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Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Doofinder is first at 40%.
Algolia is first at 24%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Constructor is first at 30%.
Why models recommend it
“HawkSearch (Best Purpose-Built B2B Solution)... Choose HawkSearch if you are a traditional B2B manufacturer/distributor with heavily spec-based products”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“HawkSearch – *Best Overall Dedicated B2B Search Engine*”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“1. Hawksearch (Best Overall for Your Situation)”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Top Recommendation: HawkSearch”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“recurring complaints regarding stability and modernization... Users frequently report software bugs and unexplained outages”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Hawksearch, over the 37 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 21 | 4 | View → | |
| 21 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 19 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Hawksearch →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 36 of the 37 answers that named Hawksearch and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
145 of the 145 domain citations in answers naming Hawksearch came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |