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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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2012
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San Francisco, CA
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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
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Algolia Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Algolia is a powerful tool and yet more and more easy to use. It gives you a fantastic sense of freedom. The new Instant search with hooks lets you design your search UX just the way you want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

There's nothing I really dislike. Algolia's dashboard design and graphical charter could be simplified and modernized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Being able to set up a performant search solution in any react app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

I like Algolia because I do not even need a database to have a fast search service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Maybe the pricing, but it delivers a lot of value and has a quite robust free tier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Algolia powers our search functionality, and products recommendations as well. The implementation was quite easy and the service works ultra fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Very little. The platform does have a lot of functionalities but you need to be an expert to us and have a dev background or find an implementation partner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Been screwing around with trying to implement this for several months. Supposed to be a less complicated and non-developer friendly alternative to elastic search. It's far from it. Our search is now riddled with bugs and our collection pages have clusters of similar products on them with no rhyme or reason. Waste of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

E-commerce search, similar product recommendations, collection pages and filters 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 CCO would like to understand the challenges you have faced - if you reach out to reviews@algolia.com someone from our Customer leadership team will get back to you to dig into your issue. Thanks, Rachel from Algolia

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Great support for open-source libraries, powerful configuration options, awesome reporting insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Some issues when integrating InstantSearch with the Next.js router Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Fast and accurate search of thousands of documents. Insights into how our user's are engaging with search. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Algolia's solution was simple to implement and start supplying our products. The available customization options allowed us to provide customers with accurate results more often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

There is very little that I don't like about this solution. My biggest complaint would be that some significant changes require significant work to upgrade, but the continued support for existing workflows makes that a minor issue for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Algolia:

Sign up for the free tier and try it out. Be sure to check out their documentation to see the numerous examples they offer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Writing custom search is a difficult task. It takes a lot of development hours and, even then, covering edge cases can be difficult. Algolia allows us to be responsive to the needs of our customers and our staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Algolia is extremely easy to integrate and the search results are surfaced amazingly fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

lack of a "null" search capability, while I understand it, is sort of a bummer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Algolia:

Read the documentation first to make sure the tool fits all your use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We're trying to search through thousands of records with varying degrees of "completeness". Searches can be on any combination of the attributes of the records in the index.

Algolia allows us to perform these sorts of searches and integrate them directly into our platform with very little lift. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alberto P.
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What do you like best about Algolia?

several things, first: quick and easy integration, powerful search engine, fast results on clients, improve on user experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

The complexity to make the search results to be shown in special cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Algolia:

Test first Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Improve the user experience allowing to search on the apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simon G.
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What do you like best about Algolia?

Simple to understand how indexes work. How to update and how to search. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Nothing really. But could be simpler to get search suggestions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Searching through consultant profiles without using sql queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CB
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What do you like best about Algolia?

Nothing, it has been a horrendous experience and still continue to take money despite cancelling months ago and trying to contact them multiple times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Their customer service is non existent and have been continuing to take money for months and refuse to answer emails or action what's been requested. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ishaan M.
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What do you like best about Algolia?

It needs minimum amount of setup and boilerplate code.

Has a generous free plan for small scale applications.

Provides backend-instantSearch so that result can be fine tuned further.

Comes with good default theme for frontend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Deleting or modifying existing records is not that easy, also documentation regarding the same is not very straightforward.

Comes only with one readymade theme. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Algolia:

If you are looking for a simple and effective search solution for your application, go for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I used algolia to add seach feature to documentation of an upcoming VueJs component library, and also used it on a webapp involving team recruitment, to make projects added by users searchable by others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.