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Fast and reliable search without reinventing the wheel
What do you like best about the product?
Algolia offers detailed documentation on every topic of its API and modules for all popular JS frameworks, making it clear to implement and fun to work with.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve can be a little steep in the beginning, especially when you have a non-default use-case.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Implementing fast and reliable search in any webapplication.
It is great for anything ranging from e-commerce search or niche usecases like hashtag autocompletion.
It is great for anything ranging from e-commerce search or niche usecases like hashtag autocompletion.
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Excellent dev experience
What do you like best about the product?
The documentation is easy to understand and concise, the new-ish pricing model is amazing, the learning curve is straightforward.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not alot, do you go with one index or multiple? I spent awhile considering that, however your show good examples for both cases in the documentation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
By going static, its making searching my websites so much easier.
The best search engine solution for my projects
What do you like best about the product?
ux and sdks. Ease of integration. in addition to having the fastest response
What do you dislike about the product?
The price is a little steep, but depending on the application it is worth it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
smart search and similar words
Great plug-in and results
What do you like best about the product?
I love how well it integrates with my store and line the results or gives back. It's exactly what I was looking for.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside that I can think of is as my store scales up, I'd have to pay for usage, but the great thing is that I can start low and grow as the shop grows
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I added a clean search function for my store that gives customers clear results back.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take a look at it and see if it works for you. I tried other solutions and they all fell short.
Seamless integration, with a lot of flexibility.
What do you like best about the product?
Algolia is the most seamless integration with its multiple SDKs. It is also easy to keep indexes synchronised. Algolia has a unique way of searching through attributes, also adaptable and able to provide you with business intelligence from your data such as if an item on your website is on offer. This will give you a competitive edge in the market by providing users with excellent experience, that's exactly what Algolia has helped us achieve. I'd recommend Algolia if you want to hit the ground running.
What do you dislike about the product?
Algolia is a slightly expensive tool but provides better services than its competitors. Also doesn't seem to work well with unstructured data, also when your systems are on-premise you would leverage Algolia features, unfortunately.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am building a job placement technology, search is critical here to find the right person for the job. Keywords are so important during recruitment for both the job seeker and the recruiter that's why we use Algolia's fast blazing APIs to deliver excellent experiences.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to build a reliable, fast search for your application, choose Algolia. You can integrate with all platforms and deliver the best service to your users.
The best option to implement a search system when having a huge database and different types of data
What do you like best about the product?
The almost no time when performing a search and the automatic pre-flight request with the most searched terms. With that, the user has the best experience ever
The fact that you can have insights for the searches performed by users and based on that you can tailor the results
The fact that you can have insights for the searches performed by users and based on that you can tailor the results
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation on React implementation could be a little bit more updated to the current versions. For example, using hooks instead of classes and have more configuration options for styling and custom components
It will be nice to have a sandbox where you can test new implementations, for the moment I'm using a different index with a _dev on the name. Having multiple envoirments or a sandbox will help a lot during development
It will be nice to have a sandbox where you can test new implementations, for the moment I'm using a different index with a _dev on the name. Having multiple envoirments or a sandbox will help a lot during development
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Being able to perform searches by locale in no time and have insights on those searches
- Having a multi index search across different types of information
- Rank the products depending on what users like
- On a near future, implement AB test in order to promote products
- Having a multi index search across different types of information
- Rank the products depending on what users like
- On a near future, implement AB test in order to promote products
Great contributor to the Jenkins open source project
What do you like best about the product?
An experienced Javascript developer integrated the Algolia search engine integration into the Jenkins plugins site. The implementation was smooth. It continues to provide valuable results.
We review the most widely used search terms and the searches that return no results. Those results have helped us improve the content and the structure of the site. We've used search results to refine our documentation development plans.
We used Algolia DocSearch for the Jenkins documentation site (www.jenkins.io). We made a few simple changes to our base page and the search integration was complete. No Javascript development skills were required. We pasted their examples into our base page. It worked. We've been delighted with the DocSearch experience for users and documentation maintainers.
We review the most widely used search terms and the searches that return no results. Those results have helped us improve the content and the structure of the site. We've used search results to refine our documentation development plans.
We used Algolia DocSearch for the Jenkins documentation site (www.jenkins.io). We made a few simple changes to our base page and the search integration was complete. No Javascript development skills were required. We pasted their examples into our base page. It worked. We've been delighted with the DocSearch experience for users and documentation maintainers.
What do you dislike about the product?
I've not yet found a way to tune or optimize the DocSearch results. We're not seeing the same reports from DocSearch as we receive from the integration that was done for the Jenkins plugins site. We'd love to have more ways to understand what users are seeking on the documentation site and more ways to tune the experience for those users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Jenkins plugins site included an outdated internal implementation of a site search. It provided few metrics and did not help us understand our users. The Algolia search implementation regularly reports search traffic.
The Jenkins documentation site (www.jenkins.io) did not have integrated search. Algolia DocSearch provides integrated search inside the documentation site without requiring us to maintain indexes or host services to answer queries. We continue to deliver a static web site and the user can search the site contents from within the search box on the page.
The Jenkins documentation site (www.jenkins.io) did not have integrated search. Algolia DocSearch provides integrated search inside the documentation site without requiring us to maintain indexes or host services to answer queries. We continue to deliver a static web site and the user can search the site contents from within the search box on the page.
Easy to use search and indexing service. Just perfect for small/medium companies.
What do you like best about the product?
It's straightforward to use and very effective. It takes away all the pain coming from maintaining a dedicated search database.
The best part of the Algolia was React UI Library
It has such a perfect and fully customizable UI library. You don't have to worry about the connection between you and Algolia. Instead of that, you can focus on the connection between the customer and you. It has a UI library for Vue, angular, android, ios.
Next, the best part is the facets.
Facets let you create categories on a select group of attributes, so your end users can refine their search.
With faces, it barely takes any time to add a new category or deliver those categories to the end-user.
Another part of Algolia like is demos.
Algolia provides out-of-box one-click demos for your indexes, so you can try and test your index structure before implementing it into your main UI.
The best part of the Algolia was React UI Library
It has such a perfect and fully customizable UI library. You don't have to worry about the connection between you and Algolia. Instead of that, you can focus on the connection between the customer and you. It has a UI library for Vue, angular, android, ios.
Next, the best part is the facets.
Facets let you create categories on a select group of attributes, so your end users can refine their search.
With faces, it barely takes any time to add a new category or deliver those categories to the end-user.
Another part of Algolia like is demos.
Algolia provides out-of-box one-click demos for your indexes, so you can try and test your index structure before implementing it into your main UI.
What do you dislike about the product?
The first thing I saw when I looked at Algolia was dynamically sorting is not a thing at all. You have to make a "replica" of the same index if you want to sort it by different fields.
Honestly, copying a whole index to sort by only one different field was come scary to me. But now, when I look back, it didn't come like a spooky thing like it used to before.
Other than that. Algolia is perfect.
Honestly, copying a whole index to sort by only one different field was come scary to me. But now, when I look back, it didn't come like a spooky thing like it used to before.
Other than that. Algolia is perfect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
You don't have to maintain a dedicated server just for indexing and search. Not only financially.
Algolia also has DSN features with multiple regions, so search result is always under 100ms most of the times.
Algolia also has DSN features with multiple regions, so search result is always under 100ms most of the times.
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Why are you even thinking?
Great SaaS solution for rapidly implementing a powerful Search Feature in your App
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to implement complex search features, including faceting, performant autocompletion, and suggestions. The implementation is quickly done using their Instantsearch SDK. The best thing about this is that their Instantsearch SDK lets you easily override the whole Search UI to fit your brand and Components.
In my past experiences, I also used Elasticsearch, which is a great Open Source Search Solution. Although ES is very flexible, achieving the same Search Experience as Algolia is a tough road with Elasticsearch, especially for optimizing the queries and the ES architecture. It is also heavier on the maintenance side.
Algolia provides a straightforward experience and can even be easily configured by non-technical people (e.g. Synonyms configuration, ranking algorithm, etc.)
In my past experiences, I also used Elasticsearch, which is a great Open Source Search Solution. Although ES is very flexible, achieving the same Search Experience as Algolia is a tough road with Elasticsearch, especially for optimizing the queries and the ES architecture. It is also heavier on the maintenance side.
Algolia provides a straightforward experience and can even be easily configured by non-technical people (e.g. Synonyms configuration, ranking algorithm, etc.)
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing of Algolia can be a bit steep, especially if you want autocomplete or query suggestions as you type, as each "Search Query" counts towards your quota. For this reason, several clients of my company prefer to start with "Search on Enter" instead of "Search as you type" with Algolia.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainly using Algolia for Searching through normalized models such as web pages, recipes, user content, etc. Algolia is used on the Frontend for achieving a great Search Experience.
Very good experience with customisability overall, but slightly lacking on integrations
What do you like best about the product?
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.
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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).
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).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
On our website CodeDragon, we use Algolia to search users and projects - it has been incredibly helpful in allowing us to broaden our search feature from just usernames and project titles to user bios and descriptions and content. It has allowed us to convey more info to the user quickly, and the InstantSearch feature means that we don't need to manually make requests.
We've also used Algolia Places in a lot of situations to allow address search, in order to simplify (as well as validate) addresses in circumstances where this was necessary to be correct.
We've also used Algolia Places in a lot of situations to allow address search, in order to simplify (as well as validate) addresses in circumstances where this was necessary to be correct.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Algolia is amazing to work with, and their customer support is always available super quickly to help you with any concerns. Make sure to make use of the algorithm customisation features and fine-tune indices to your liking in order to bring out the most from Algolia - it could make the difference between a 'good' and 'great' implementation.
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