Algolia Reviews & Product Details

Easy to use and really fast to implement.

Docsearch is a bit difficult to configure

Adding search to our documentation site. Allows us to have a search with minimal effort.

The search results are accurate and are fast. The analytics for what queries are not getting results and what documents get the most hits is nice.

The way that the system computes how many credits you are using is pretty confusing. Better clarity around how credits are counted would be nice.

We have extensive internal documentation but our employees have a hard time finding the doc they need. We have indexed all of our docs into Algolia and use that to power automation so employees can self-service support requests.

Easy to create and manage indexes, many features and great documentation. Also very good support

Control panel sometimes has me lost. A bit on the complicated side, but then again there are so many customisable features...

Searching through thousands of products for our customer's e-shops. Actually has increased sales!

We can integrate Algolia search with Laravel framework. It's pretty straight forward if you don't need special settings.

The document was not clear when I was doing further settings for integration. I hope it can include more complex examples.

Easily added site-wide search functionality to our website without thinking complex algorithm for searching

The platform has multiple levels which can be incorporated from the most basic to advanced that don’t require you to decide upfront.

There should be more industry specific use cases ootb.

Driving end user personalization and results relevance.

The dashboard is organised in a very ergonomique way wich allows even non technically-literate users to be able to easily their integration.

The more advanced api documentation can be a bit lacking at times

We use algolia for in a wide range of applications, from customer facing search bars to employee files and stock management.

Their docs are the best I’ve ever encountered. Makes it super easy to get a robust search up and running in no time.

Some of their tract components don’t support hooks yet.

Creating a dope search experience for our users. It also doubles as our autocomplete for mentions

Very easy to set up, no maintenance needed from our side. Efficient and easy to adapt a ranking formula. Extremely fast search results. We tried to implement on iconscout.com. Here is a sample link: https://iconscout-search.netlify.app Algolia is brain-dead simple to set up. I've implemented a search with Algolia in a dozen different ways now, and it never took me longer than a few minutes to get the functionality I want. With Algolia, the only challenge is designing your search UI -- if you don't want to use they are baked in UI solutions.

Costs can escalate dramatically when you expand your traffic. Manually manipulating search results (for specific queries having listings show up first) is a bit difficult to do without custom developing that functionality.

Any consumer-facing business that needs instant search results for user searches. Excellent fits would be e-commerce solutions and marketplaces. If your traffic is low it is also a relatively cost-effective solution than using your own solution (e.g. elastic search). Perfect for teams that do not have the architectural knowledge to set up their own search solutions.

Algolia is amazingly simple for devs to implement. We roll it out to nearly all the websites we build. Once deployed we never have to worry about search. It's crazy fast, crazy accurate and a real pleasure to work with.

Algolia needs to work a bit on their customer support. They can somewhat a bit slow or hard to reach. But luckily when they solve your issue, they do it right. Also they use to have a great WP plugin but they discontinued it. It was a great solution but they favor dev's to build their own solution.

We use to roll out solutions like Apache Solr for search and while it is powerful, it requires so much work to put in place and customize to your needs. Now we can roll out powerful search in 1/10th of the time it use to.

I love how fast the team was able to get search working in our product. It doesn't take long and there are a lot of built-in out of the box features you can roll with. We opted for the custom API driven use which still didn't take long and then to customize was very simple. The reports are really cool and we look forward to the future expansion and personalization features.

There isn't too much to not like. I guess the only thing that has me worried is the cost at scale but for our application, that shouldn't be a problem cause the more searching the more revenue it should generate.

We are using it to help fit our customers into the right product. We have over 500 SKU's and getting the customer the product they are looking for quickly and easily would normally be a challenge but we just dumped in everything to Algolia and then built some facets around it and it's a great solution and took our small team no time to implement.