Algolia AI Search
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The best way to add search to a static site
What do you like best about the product?
I added Algolia to a Vuepress site. It was incredibly easy and straightforward. I had the search up and running in less than a couple of hours with great quality results.
What do you dislike about the product?
The layout and navigation of the site are a bit confusing. I had a hard time understanding how to navigate between the profile, index, and crawler UIs. The UI can benefit from improved cohesive navigation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Setting up a custom search instance is complicated, time-consuming and error-prone. Using Algolia I was able to have the search up and running almost immediately without having to manage servers or infra.
Easy Set-Up and Supportive Customer Success Team
What do you like best about the product?
We are using Algolia for a search proof of concept. After signing up, the customer success team reached out to me to offer help. They were very helpful, pointing me to some open source synonym dictionaries that I could use in my project.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have yet to experience any downsides to Algolia, it has been very nice to work with so far.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Searching a Firestore database of existing contacts to ensure the integrated apps can not introduce a duplicate entry. To do this, we are leveraging synonym dictionaries, typo detection and geo-location proximity filters.
Takes the headache out of managing search infrastructure
What do you like best about the product?
For the most part is it just plug-and-play. It has good packages for integrating with Ruby on Rails and Laravel which makes firing data off easy. Being able to control search preferences inside Algolia rather than in code makes it easy to see what options are available but also tinker in realtime.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing - it becomes prohibitively expensive as the number of records goes up. This is a result of paying per record rather than paying for CPU capacity or bandwidth. For use-cases with millions of records I've had to consider other options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It makes searching for our users (and site administrators) super easy - it fixes for typos, handles fuzzy searching and queries multiple columns easily. It takes the load off our SQL database performing complex queries and gives better and faster results to our customers.
All in all a great service with tiny glitches
What do you like best about the product?
It was a joy implementing Algolia, and once I got the hang of it, and got what I needed out of it, I was amazed by the speed of the service, and the ease of use of the web app. It's great to see so much gifted to us in the free tier plan.
What do you dislike about the product?
It occasionally had smaller glitches, but mostly display issues on the web app (like text covering buttons), but nothing that could not be worked around easily. One bug downside: cannot search for the inexistence of fields/values.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use firebase and it has no string search, so we were looking for an alternative, and Algolia has solved that problem perfectly, and for a very good price as well.
Algolia is a wonderful search service! Highly recommend.
What do you like best about the product?
Algolia helps my team and I to efficiently search through a large database and provide an impeccable customer experience. The InstantSearch.js + React Hooks API is unrivaled.
What do you dislike about the product?
The 100kb file size limit for records can be a little difficult to work around. I understand the concerns behind not letting people "game" the billing system. However, it would be most optimal if users are billed additionally per >100kb record, rounded up to the nearest 100 and divided by 100. (e.g., a 140kb record would be 2x the price of a regular record because 140 rounded up becomes 200, divided by 100 becomes 2; similarly, a 540kb record would be billed at 6x the regular rate).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Algolia's automatic indexing of Firestore objects helps me because I don't have to manually reindex my data. I am more productive and can focus on other things.
Powerful search solution
What do you like best about the product?
Great support for open-source libraries, powerful configuration options, awesome reporting insights.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some issues when integrating InstantSearch with the Next.js router
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast and accurate search of thousands of documents. Insights into how our user's are engaging with search.
I feel like it might get expensive eventually, but totally worth it
What do you like best about the product?
Great API, easy to use and figure out. We're an e-commerce site and it did a great job capturing all of our info and making it searchable. I had ideas to build the same thing from scratch, but glad we chose algolia.
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation -- especially for Vue JS front-end stuff, is kind of all over the place and a bit disorganized. So it's a little challenging to have junior engineers figure out what's going on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Site-wide search is how we use it, and it's solving that problem for us in a big way. The shopify integration is OK -- not perfect, and documentation for a custom shopify is a bit lacking. For example, can't seem to find documentation on how to get algolia to take over our collections pages.
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What do you like best about the product?
The combination with Bubble.io to create powerfull search features in apps.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to declare to my point of view, everything is very clear.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making complex research with multiple fields in a database
search.io
What do you like best about the product?
I love that you can personalize this search we have grown our e-commerce businsss utlizing this software
What do you dislike about the product?
I risk like the cost. At $1000 a month it is quite expensive investment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our users don't spend a lot of time on our website so we are maximizing their time for conversion
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is expensive but the increase in sales we've seen is worth the cost.
API Monitoring of our Boyce Application Clusters with Algolia
What do you like best about the product?
Algolia is a powerful API-based search engine that is capable of processing our search queries and giving its results on a quick real-time basis. It implements a tie-breaking algorithm for a comprehensive comparison of our record items. It offers top-notch transparency while working with our records, and its search engine is capable of handling high-end search provisions for our demands.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm satisfied with the end-to-end search solutions offered by Algolia. It gives me excellent UI experience while working with its SAAS platform. Its configuration is also simple, and no prior experience is required to begin with Algolia.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Algolia is helpful in API monitoring activities for our Boyce's E-commerce application clusters which is not easily accessible with regular API clients. It builds and redefines our search patterns based on our application end-user interactions, and its analytics provides accurate and consistent feedback. We can also restrict our search based on the set of indices we define and implement changes in our front-end code. The primary API key is generated on the Boyce application server, and they are secured through its superb API endpoint security features.
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