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Algolia Overview

What is Algolia?

Algolia is the world’s only end-to-end AI search and discovery platform. Our engineers invented a breakthrough use of AI to create exponentially better search & discovery. Our proprietary NeuralSearch tech combines vector-based natural language processing & keyword matching in a single API. Algolia powers 1.75 Trillion search requests a year or more than 30 Billion a week enabling more than 17,000 customers in 150+ countries to build blazing fast and relevant search and discovery experiences for their in-app users and/or online visitors (using any web, mobile or voice device) – by surfacing the desired content instantly and at scale. To learn more, visit www.algolia.com.

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Product Description

Algolia is an API built for developers that delivers relevant results in your mobile apps and websites from the first keystroke.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Other companies such as Elasticsearch and Solr work well out-of-the-box for document search, but delivering a fully-featured, user-friendly search with them requires a lot of additional investment.

Algolia’s highly-optimized infrastructure is distributed across the world in 15 regions and 47 data centers. Algolia provides a 99.99% reliability guarantee and can deliver a fast search to users wherever in the world they’re connecting from. Elasticsearch and Solr do not automatically distribute to multiple regions, and doing so can incur significant server costs and devops resources.


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Algolia, the world’s only end-to-end AI Search solution, helps businesses and developers understand their online users and show them exactly what they need. Algolia is the one-stop shop for AI search and works by feeding an array of signals into multiple AI models that understand user intent and surface personalized results that meet business needs. The company uses this deep understanding to create exceptional customer experiences, and to drive revenue growth for customers. Algolia achieves its vision by enabling more than 17,000 customers to build blazing fast and relevant search experiences for their in-app users and/or online visitors by surfacing the desired content instantly and at scale. Algolia was recently named a Leader in the inaugural
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4 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery Algolia's journey to leadership is underpinned by its unwavering commitment to three foundational pillars Speed, Ease of Use, and Scale. Algolia is known for its blazing fast speed with results returned in a staggering 1 to
0 milliseconds, Algolia's AI search eclipses industry standards by up to
00-fold, setting a new benchmark for user satisfaction and ROI optimization. The platform's ease of use empowers rapid implementation and effortless integration, Algolia's APIs catalyze swift go-to-market strategies. Augmented by SDKs and a robust code library, the platform streamlines development while offering unparalleled analytics capabilities, ensuring every interaction is finely tuned to perfection. And, as the preeminent hosted search engine globally, Algolia processes a staggering 1.7 trillion searches annually. With an index housing over 30 billion records and operating at an awe-inspiring 99.999% availability, Algolia empowers enterprises to scale unprecedented heights of user-centricity. Founded in
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in Paris, the company grew and subsequently moved its headquarters to San Francisco to expand its operations and penetrate the North American market.


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Algolia Demo - Algolia Dashboard
Monitor your key indicators in an intuitive dashboard, from searches to CTR to conversion. Visualize changes over time and understand how your search performs at-a-glance.
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Algolia Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Algolia delivers what they promise. And their team is always there to help us to reach our goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

The speed of Algolia puts pressure on our other systems to perform in the same pace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Delivering correct products and search results in the correct time and place for our customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Algolia search is easy to implement and manage provided that you don't try to do something complex and do not need to involve customer service. The search results, on a default setting, are very well presented and indexed efficiently without cumbersome setup time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Inexistent customer support. I got a good amount of seemingly automated informative and follow-up emails on signup which should imply there is great care and interest in their customers.

My experience however proved that, once I needed help and engaged the customer service, I got completely ignored.

My reminders and requests for follow-up and feedback got ignored as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Algolia was the only search plugin I could easily integrate into Docusaurus with a good amount of features out of the box. The other solutions I have tried either didn't work or were more complex to maintain and setup, and time is scarce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Rachel Ward of Algolia

Hello - thank you for taking the time to share your experience. I'm sorry to hear that you've been having a difficult time, that's not the experience we strive to create for our customers. Our support team would like to help and dig into what may have happened. If you'd like to speak with us could you please create a new ticket at https://support.algolia.com and someone from our team will help you. Thanks, Rachel from Algolia

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Fast performance and easy integration make this service a perfect alternative for the data storage layer in any small app or website. Ready-to-use libraries from .NET to Node.js simplifies the usage, and the standard REST API enables you to use it from practically anywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

When developing on the local machine, it might take hundreds of calls to the API, which comes out of the quota. Local emulators would help. Although it is possible to create search requests with authentication filters to make sure users get only permitted results, this whole process could be simplified. For instance, today, it requires me to have some server in the middle to generate the token, and if it were part of the Algolia services, it would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Algolia:

For small-medium projects, it can be an excellent service to store data and then use search tools to query it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Can use it from simple data storage solution to adding a powerful search experience to end-users and all this from the same index. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

The built-in integration with Laravel Scout and Algolia. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Large models must be chunked into multiple components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Laravel and Algolia we were able to very quickly implement a full-featured incredibly responsive search solution for our web application with analytics, reporting, and backend features like synonym salting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carlos P.
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What do you like best about Algolia?

Product suggestions and autocorrect are great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Index are redundant sometimes if you are new to the app and not very tech savy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Algolia:

It is very easy to configure or have someone to configure it, once it's done you just sit back and relax, sales will go up on your site because users will not be frustrated not finding the item or variant they are looking for Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Product suggestions, auto-complete, and autocorrect functionalities are amazing, most of the issues on websites that I have managed are from the user misspelling, not knowing the name or want some suggestions, this UX is amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Great API, easy to use and figure out. We're an e-commerce site and it did a great job capturing all of our info and making it searchable. I had ideas to build the same thing from scratch, but glad we chose algolia. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

The documentation -- especially for Vue JS front-end stuff, is kind of all over the place and a bit disorganized. So it's a little challenging to have junior engineers figure out what's going on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Site-wide search is how we use it, and it's solving that problem for us in a big way. The shopify integration is OK -- not perfect, and documentation for a custom shopify is a bit lacking. For example, can't seem to find documentation on how to get algolia to take over our collections pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Simple and intuitive dashboard as well as super easy to start. I was able to get my search into production in minutes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Pricing can get out of hand if not careful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Site wide search Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

I like the speed of the response and the fact that it's easy to set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

I'd like to have more edge case examples in the documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Indexed searches are a very annoying task to manage by myself. Algoila solves this issue by giving a complete set of tools to create a very, very fast and user-friendly search engine for my web apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Algolia is helpful because they have a great documentation and a powerful suite of features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Some of the more technical features are harder to use but I understand why, it's a complex product, but it's also the simplest and best that's out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Algolia is helping us solve the problem of search and discovery within our customers sites and in our dashboard applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

I added Algolia to a Vuepress site. It was incredibly easy and straightforward. I had the search up and running in less than a couple of hours with great quality results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

The layout and navigation of the site are a bit confusing. I had a hard time understanding how to navigate between the profile, index, and crawler UIs. The UI can benefit from improved cohesive navigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Algolia solving and how is that benefiting you?

Setting up a custom search instance is complicated, time-consuming and error-prone. Using Algolia I was able to have the search up and running almost immediately without having to manage servers or infra. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.