We decided we needed search on our site. Within a few minutes we had a demo account within Algolia, and instantly wrapped our heads around the interface. A few hours later we had our entire dataset within Algolia, and minutes later were hitting the API with search results. Since setting up Algolia, we have hardly had to modify any search settings. It has worked flawlessly for almost two years for us. We are actively showing the technology off to other product teams, as it drastic reduced our cost to build our product out. Our search is so effective, it is typically one of the first things other teams notice when checking out our product. They asked how we did the impossible. The answer, focus on our core competencies, and trust the experts at their competencies. Algolia is simply the best, at a fair price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Not much. We have had a few minutes of downtime in almost two years. When it happened the monitors at Algolia did not detect the outage. After emailing the CEO, he was quick to respond. The technical teams were quick to resolve, and due to our outreach, were able to fix the monitors. Downtime is expected for any SaaS service. What is important is that it is reasonable, and how they respond. For that, they did a amazing job.n Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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We had several sales calls with Algolia to determine it was the right product for our client. Then when we entered into an agreement we had very detailed weekly onboarding sessions to teach us about the tool. The dashboard is very user friendly and there's so many different features. We're excited about the level of control we'll have with this tool compared to the default site search tools through a CMS like Drupal or Wordpress, or ElasticSearch via AWS. This is nice because we can see why a search is ranking a certain way right through the dashboard and will save us time from having to do trial and error to make the site search as relevant as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There are so many features that it can seem overwhelming to start at first. We are also one of the first clients using this in a non-ecommerce way so there were not as many uses cases we could reference. The tool is expensive but worth it so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Easy to use index design and with the analytics features to track CTR and also conduct A/B experiment from the platform itself.
The platform can be easily used to monitor search regularly to see daily / monthly reports. Analytics Insights can help improve search using simple ranking and sorting attributes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Faced challenges regarding updating the records in the index. Also, call support is not available even in premium paid plan.This is a bummer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Algolia is a highly scalable search solution that integrates seamlessly with other composable technologies. It allows for effective collaboration between product, marketing, and engineering teams, streamlining the process of managing search ranking strategies. I’ve found their OOTB tools for A/B testing, search ranking management, and front-end components to be incredibly valuable in reducing development time while improving search performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Understanding Algolia’s pricing and how costs scale can be a challenge at times. The cost structure isn’t always immediately clear, which makes it harder to forecast as projects grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
1. Managing user search data easily and optimizing it to provide accurate results.
2. Recommend users with the exact similar products they are searching for.
3. User search analytics that gives in depth information about the products viewed and clicked for a specific time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing as such but the implementation docs and examples need to be updated and should be easily understandable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I love the visual editor in Algolia, it is very easy to use. The analytics also provide very valuble insights that can be used to then create or edit rules or synonyms. As a daily user it is a very easy platform to navigate and was able to be learned very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There could have been multiple rules created by different users that effect the same results, would be nice to be able to see all rules/synonyms together the effect a certain query. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Algolia lets any organization build a full fledged search experience with limited engineering bandwidth and expertise. It provides tools for the Product managers, business owners to directly run promotions experiments on search without any engineering dependency. Would highly recommend it for organizations who may have limited engineering pool but want to provide a best in class search experience to scale their business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Algolia algorithm works differently from tradtional elastic based search, hence some of the deeper customizations in search ranking may are not possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The ease at which i can integrate Algolia with my services and the many ways i can use it in my daily workflow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes the process of browsing and transforming records programatically could use some better documentation. At least when i started out it felt at times like i was missing some examples of e.g loading all records into a program an iterating on them. After a while it made more sense at has gotten easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What I like the best is the loading time, which is under 1ms for all of our requests.
The customer support is really great and we deployed Algolia in a few hours for our stock. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Everything is not always "no-code" friendly, you better have some experience in development in order to understand every feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It uses our data in a really intelligent way, and is very good at presenting this back to you in a way that demonstrates its value, and performance against the norm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There's a steep learning curve for new users and the user interface and how it operates can be a bit daunting for non-technical team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Implementaion was much easier than previous tools and the support from Algolia has been incredibly helpful and informative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some of the defaults such as number of results bought back from facets were hard to overwride and were not the clearest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
