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it's swift, robust and equipped with intelligent tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It becomes a bit costy if I integrate a real-time search suggestions as the user typing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The clean UI of the dashboard, easy setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Getting charged for making simple operations on an index. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the speed of the queries and along with the web UI provided for configuring indexes. There are lots of parameters to make the searches work as you expected, even with misspelled inputs. I like the idea of creating replicas of your data with different parameters for different search use cases. It then becomes very clear which index you wish to use later on and so you receive predictable outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like the react plugin for instant search, at least the version I am on right now, because it is very difficult to clear the cache for the results. In my use case, the fields on the data change regularly. The results will return the old values until the entire component is unloaded and then reloaded.

I also wish the logs were easier to filter and review in the web browser. Currently, I have the best results when I pull down all the logs locally and filter the text with another program. It would be nice to see more results on the browser, or be able to filter them by the contents of the operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I signed up for Algolia's Docsearch product, and it couldn't be simpler. I gave them the URLs to my documentation, and they set everything up and it works like a charm.

I also like the weekly reports because they tell me what people search for and what's missing from my documentation. That makes it easy to see which parts I can improve! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it takes a while for Algolia to index new pages, but it's never too long. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dashboard is very easy to use in all its functionalities. There is a complete set of function to manage every aspect without writing a single line of code.

You need to do things programmatically? Algolia offers easy to use libraries written in many languages (javascript, php, java, etc...) to have full control of every aspect of index/crawler configuration / interrogation.

Also everything is well documented in their docs.

You need any help? Support team replies fast and with accuracy.

How service works? They accomplish their promises: index queries resolves very fast in every scenario, even with thousands of objects in a single index. Your customer will have a very instant search experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Crawler part is a little bit a black box, even if configuration is well explained. You cannot make ajax calls in it's execution (even if, to be honest, it is not recommended at all).

There is no xls/csv export of crawler logs and so they are not so easy to analyze through the dashboard.

Query suggestion part maybe is lacking of some custom configurations and docs are not so clear as other functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best of all is the ease of integration with your project, both to the back and front, and how easy it is to build the queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That it does not have a pay per use as firebase does, you only have 2 options, the free account or the payment commitment, use or do not use all your operations for which you are going to pay Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Overal it's a very modern feeling service. Great documentation including good examples. I was up and running in about an hour, including integrating it with a static site build process and a basic front end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far there's nothing to dislike. I'm not sure how well the pricing scales for production but for my limited traffic site it's perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Algolia is a must-have when it comes to search and faceted navigation.

I deployed it on some project, and all my clients were amazed about how fast and relevant it is.

I used it for global autocomplete search, global search experience, and faceted search.

It's always a WOW effect.

It brings so many features that you don't need to develop that the price is almost a detail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are no real downsides. Everything is here to help a freelance developer like me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how easy it is to integrate with Algolia. The documentation and the libraries are excellent, and tweaking the search rules to handle typos and ranking can be quickly done from their website. The search speed is better than with Elasticsearch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Algolia changed its pricing around two years ago, and the new pricing is more expensive for our job portal because we have a lot of GET requests and few POST requests and records. We have planned to mitigate this by adding caching with Redis so that retrieving a single object will be done with Redis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how customisable and well-documented the algorithm is - I like being able to rearrange the steps, as well as the automagical adaptation to new data types. I can add a completely new key to my object, and Algolia automatically updates to handle it.

Also, I am very happy about the ease of creating new collections/workspaces, and configuring them through the easy guided tutorial.

I would have also said that my favourite feature, by far, was Algolia places :(. The fact that it was available for free/a very low cost was amazing.

The React toolkit is also incredibly helpful - I can set up a UI with searching, filtering, and sorting very quickly.

This also goes without saying, but the search algorithm is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am, of course, sad about the demise of Places. It really was the only tool available for searching this kind of data for free, and I've used it in a lot of sights where it was really a no-brainer to implement and there weren't really any viable alternatives.

Also, I would appreciate more integrations with rapid development tools - it has occurred many times that when developing a super-quick MVP, Algolia was the longest to set up. For instance, automatic Firebase/Firestore sync would be greatly appreciated, since right now, I need to use Firebase Functions in order to manually sync the two. Not only does this slow down development time, it also makes the sync execute slower, since Firebase Functions need to boot up first.

Also, I have experiences slight issues when it comes to implementing the manual React UI - although I said that it's quite easy to use, this isn't the case when attempting to customise it. It can get quite complicated and hacky to use, particularly with Typescript (as TS definitions are dodgy/incomplete in cases). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.