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What is Algolia?

Algolia is a discovery and search tool designed to help businesses improve their website and app search experience. The platform has tools such as instant search, typo tolerance, and personalized results that help users find the information needed efficiently. With a focus on simplicity and ease, Algolia helps businesses increase engagement and conversions by delivering a fast and relevant search experience.

Company Algolia Inc.
Year founded 2012
Company size 201-500 employees
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
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API
CLI
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Mid Market
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Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone
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Languages English
Algolia Features
Advanced Filtering
Auto-Suggestions
Cloud Deployment
Content Crawling
Content Highlighting
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Data Connectors
Data Security
Document Indexing
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Federated Search
Full-text Search
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Metadata Tagging
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Natural Language Processing
Query Suggestions
Real-time Indexing
Relevance Tuning
Role-Based Access Control
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Search Alerts
Search Analytics
Search Result Ranking
Spell Check
Synonym Support
Thesaurus Management
User Activity Monitoring
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354 Algolia Reviews
4.6 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 24, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Justin M.
Logical Harmony
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"Algolia for blogs"
What do you like best about Algolia?

It’s a better way to search our site, our audience is able to locate relevant pieces of our content even if those pages were created 4 years ago.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

The setup process was not very easy, although algolia was responsive to emails and did help us set it up.

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

We are able to track what new content we should create and see what old content people are searching for

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 24, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
BL
Brian L.
Founder
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"Best outsourcing decision "
What do you like best about Algolia?

It's easy to setup and easy to operate and maintain. They even give you a free javascript library that they maintain. The free tier is nice for trying out.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Nothing I can think of, so far it's a good experience

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

We don't have enough manpower to implement a commodity such as search. Even if we had the engineering pool, it makes no sense to implement a commodity feature such as search when something as cheap as Algolia exists

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 24, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Algolia makes search easy"
What do you like best about Algolia?

We've been using Algolia for the past 8 months and it has been super reliable. As a smaller team, it immediately gave us a ton of flexibility and options we could tweak to improve our search results. It was extremely easy to understand and implement.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

I wish it were easier to keep our Algolia index in sync with our main database.

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

Search can be difficult and require a lot of configuration and tuning. Algolia powers the search across our platform and has saved us time and resources that we would have had to invest in setting up and maintaining infrastructure for search.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Apr 12, 2018
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Nebez B.
Founder
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"Working as expected: incredibly easy integration, relevant results, quick searches."
What do you like best about Algolia?

The amount of work that goes into maintaining and publishing Developer-focus documentation is great. Integrating was super simple because of how well they know how to speak to technical people.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Maintaining configuration sync amongst indices is not easy. I have many indices that all need to work in the same way (prioritization, synonyms, etc), and they each need to be configured and updated individually. Having common index configuration that can be shared is something that you can only do programatically, but this means you can no longer use the web interface.

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

Ecomm search in a luxury retail startup was not our first concern. We spend time on curating vintage products, photography, and focusing on brick-and-mortar stores. Sync'ing our product catalog up with Algolia and implementing their front-end JS helper meant we got up and running with instant search across our entire catalog in a matter of hours.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 12, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Ady L.
Vp R&D
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"Using Algolia for search throughout our system"
What do you like best about Algolia?

I like the ease of use. it took us no time to integrate our entities to algolia and use the api for search everywhere we needed to.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Can't point at anything that we don't like with the system. one small thing is that you can't dispose a search while it's running (client side)

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

Speed and rich solution for search, doing it ourselves would have taken much more time with reduced functionality

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Apr 06, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Agnese G. avatar
Agnese G.
Information Technology Project Manager
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"Amazing API programmatūra"
What do you like best about Algolia?

Godīgi sakot, man patiešām patīk šī programmatūra, jo tā ir ātra un tai ir daudz funkciju, kuras ir viegli izmantot. Tas ir nepareizs pielaide, kas ir labs, jo tādā veidā es varu padarīt darbu ātrāku. To ir viegli lietot un saprast.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Vienīgais, kas man patiešām nepatīk, ir cena, tā ir patiešām augsta.

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

Algolija ļauj organizēt visu un veikt meklējumus jaukā ceļojumā. Man tas patīk, kopš mēs sākām lietot programmatūru, mūsu klienti ir pārsteigti par vieglumu, ko meklējat.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 05, 2017
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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★ William K.
Senior Director, Product & Growth
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"Amazing tech. You'll never go back"
What do you like best about Algolia?

Implementation is super easy. Search engine is best in class. After using it, you will be annoyed with the sub-par search of mainstream apps like linkedin, Facebook, etc ...

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Nothing so far. Algolia has everything I need.

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

Search is a key and vital feature for almost any tech product. If your users can't find good content, they will churn. With Algolia, I offer my users an amazing experience and they can find all the stuff they like in a breeze.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 22, 2016
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Overall Rating:
5.0
MT
Milad T.
Software Engineer
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"Stable, Predictable and easy to use Search service."
What do you like best about Algolia?

Algolia is very stable with rich APIs and fast response times. It supports many programming languages and provide well designed libraries with great documentation. Algolia solves many problems for services in which fast searching in large data sets are required. The platform is incredibly reliable, easy to use and prices are affordable for most companies, regardless of scale . It takes no time to integrate it into a project. Thanks to their backend architecture, availability is guaranteed and lookups are predictable.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

- Improved indexing. Although not a big problem, but it can definitely cut a set of manual processing stages. - Choice of server location to reduce latency.

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

Syncing data in a distributed service. Algolia help us to skip hassle of maintenance and focus on the service itself.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 05, 2024
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Overall Rating:
4.5
Jeff T. avatar
Jeff T.
Head Of Digital
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"Best in class tool to optimize site search, on site merchandising and user experience"
What do you like best about Algolia?

I can categorize Algolia's strengths in two primary areas: 1. Algolia's engaged account management and product support are above and beyond other players in the space. This is absolutely integral in being able to implement, manage and optimize the use of their platform. 2. Algolia's commitment to ongoing product enhancements and innovation ensure our organization that we are partnered with a company that is positioned to support our continual growth.

What do you dislike about Algolia?

Your team will need to have an understanding of coding as their platform does not fully support management by the business, digital marketing, or merchandising teams with some level of support from a developer.

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

Improved onsite merchandising and optimization on product listing pages, within site search and menus driving improved KPIs, (CTA, Bounce, CR), and better user experience.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 01, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Algolia is a very reliable, scalable solution to search-related problem"
What do you like best about Algolia?

It is fairly easy to use, has been very reliable and has provided us with a very smart and innovative replacement for our previous services. It is very performant and has a lot of features for aggregating and ordering lists of objects that come in handy, when trying to provide the best possible UX

What do you dislike about Algolia?

There was a small hiccup with one of the list ordering features, which wasn't actually solved. We contacted customer support, but they didn't take much action as it was working somewhat according to design. Maybe some of the documentation was misleading, however we managed to find a way around it pretty easily, due to the convenient API

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

It solves the problems of optimizing the search experience in speed and reliability, as well as reacting to the users' input. Using it for searching purposes we benefit from relevant searches acompanied with inisight into what the users find relevant