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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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What do you like best about Algolia?

Su concepto de creación (La posibilidad de utilizar servidores más preparados para las consultas) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

La gran cantidad de codigo que te "enchufan" (¡3 archivos JS!) + La falta de un formulario PROPIO + La falta de un shortcode para insertar dicho formulario PROPIO en donde uno quiera. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Por ahora ¡NINGUNO! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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 with you regarding your challenges. Thanks, Rachel from Algolia

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Performance is top of the line! Same with DX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Nothing yet. If you want great search experience and willing to pay for that - algolia is no brainer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Algolia:

If you want fast search / filtering experience on your website, without too much of a hustle, wiling to pay for the service - Algolia is n1 choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Got a great search experience and fast implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

The possibility of all coded or even by plugging it into your PLC system.

The almost infinite possibilities are offered by the software to have a result as close as possible to reality.

The fact that a sales representative from Algolia came to explain to us in more detail the possibilities and the functioning of the software (even if it would have been preferable for a technique from Algolia to explain the possibilities of the API).

The possibility of testing the paid features for a while is also a plus, however if I would have known the complexity of use via API, I might have waited before being able to take advantage of this offer (an informational text is not available). would not be too much). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

The documentation is unstructured. For a developer who wants to use your solution from A to Z, the documentation is too exhaustive and focuses more on the points that can be proposed by the Agoraio development team

The integration complexity of an interface preferred for research which is not documented or if it is it is very difficult to find it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Algolia:

Algolia is a really complete solution that offers a lot of ways to use search. However, if you are developer and only work on a front-end environment, take the time to fully understand the API system and the subtleties blocking specific points. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I could group all my content which is managed from the front on a database which then allows me to do relevant research.

In addition, the fact of using Algolia and better understanding it opens doors for us to use it for our future customers, whether for E-commerce or research in very dense documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Simple API, which is quick and easy to pick up. Adding items to Indices and is instantly available for search. Having the ability to update single values in the object allows for quick safer updates. Support staff are friendly and knowledgeable, which is always a bonus. The API has a very powerful query language which makes it much simplier to build up the right results which are relevant to the area which I am trying to get the user to focus.

Being able to see what users have searched for is a big plus area for us. We can use this data to better refine our data and see areas which our supporters are showing interest in. This in turn helps improve user engagement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

When making changes in the dashboard, it is possible to update based on a previous version of the object. You need to ensure manually that the object is at the latest version before editing. While this has caught me out a couple of times overall, there is not much to dislike about the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I needed to add search to an in-house donation platform, plus give aggregated data to the user quickly and efficiently. As I built up the platform's integration to Algolia, the benefits became more and more evident.

Since the first implementation, we are now looking at expaning the usage to our main website and importing our articles for searching and generating results for related content. We have been able to identify that by using Algolias machine language learning on our data will vastly improve site visitor engagement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Search results on the website can be optimised for customers; we can see search results and curate products accordingly. Can update ranking and also see most viewed products. Once enabled facets can also be enabled and disabled from the Algolia panel itself. Also all the documentation for the initial setup was very clear and easy to understand. We have no trouble understanding the API documentation and the support from the team was also very good in cases when we had doubts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

The initial integration is a little tricky, needs good development support for integration into the existing website. But overall not a challenge; the website is currently running smoothly. Adding and removing facets is not very straightforward as we need an extra step to remove them. Another suggestion is to provide more reports and data, which we can further use to help with conversions. The current dashboard is also a bit cluttered. For developers, it is okay, for an end-user like a E-Commerce Manager, access to dashboards which can show straight-forward buttons and also reports which show insights can be of much help as they can then use the same data for making business decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Algolia:

Initial implementation is tricky, but the product definitely has it benefits, you'll be able to see better conversion rates and happier customers once you start using the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Search results used to be a mess before Algolia; now, it's very optimized for the customer; we have a much deeper understanding of the customer data and can curate products for them in search. Better search results for the customers lead to better product visibility that the customers want and better conversion rates. We are only into 40 days of use of Algolia on the current website; already we see good conversion rates, we will be able to tell more in the coming months on the same Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Great documentation and the features provided by the algolia. specially how it intergrates with framworks such as laravel, flask etc . . . and most impotantly the incredible search it provides. also amount of customization it has it incredible. i was able to fine tune the search engine to provide the best solution and search results that my customers expected. ai ranking is very good. custom ranking was easy to use. from php/laravel i was able to customize the data models uploaded to the algolia. also happy with the speed it works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

the web ui is bit slow and sometimes does not update data displayed. it uses react so its bit heavy. also php documentaion support is not updated in some time. its still showing old php documentaions. documentation is veavily fragmented to the point some times its very hard to undestand or make sence of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Algolia:

if you need a search engine that works almost out of the box and easier to setup, algolia will serve you the best! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

used algolia in a project to improve search of thar application suite. using algolia we could tune the algorithem to our liking and was able to hit the standars we were expecting. by using cutome rankings we tuned the search algorithem to do out biding. results was withing out expectation and beyond. overtime we saw a increase in site traffic and algolia usage. we also were able to utilize the algolia provided analytics to further improve the search rankings to our liking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

Ease of use; incredible visual merchandising tools allow for a ton of flexibility; the speed and site performance is impeccable! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

The pricing model is based on search traffic, so it's hard to give an off-the-cuff pricing estimate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

No-code daily operations for headless e-commerce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robin P.
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What do you like best about Algolia?

Algolia handles all the indexing of products in real-time, removing a potential server load item that can negatively impact performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

A Woocommerce extension used to be available in the past but has stopped development. It would be great to have this extension available again to make the build process quicker and easier for any users who may be non-developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Algolia:

Developer knowledge is a huge help in setting up and using Algolia. Also, a robust taxonomy on your website before implementing Algolia will ease the pulling of key data points for the search index. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Faster website performance, and massively improved search functionality, including ajax real-time search results and typo handling. Advanced filtering for ignoring specific pages you want excluded from the search index is also an excellent feature. Offloading of the indexing of data with a fairly hands-off approach is acheiveable once setup correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Algolia?

I like that the Algolia interface is intuitive. I was able to pick it up pretty quickly. I also love how extensive the help center is. I can find the answer to almost any question I have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Implementation can be pretty technical, especially for mid-to-large ecommerce brands. For example, enabling click and conversion events require editing the code. That's not ideal for most users who want to get up and running fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Before using Algolia, our search results were inaccurate at best and infuriating at worst. Thanks to Algolia, our customers can find the products that they need very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.