Algolia AI Search
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Simple to implement and as fast as advertised
What do you like best about the product?
It has a good developer experience and performs well.
What do you dislike about the product?
The client-side library size can be cumbersome for smaller apps. This can be circumvented by using server-side scripting, but it would nice to have an even lighter-weight library.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Algolia for a conference and want to provide instant search through all the events for our users.
Awesome search engine solution but a bit pricey
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are a job portal, and search speed and accuracy are essential for us. Using Algolia saved us development time compared to building an Elasticsearch cluster, and the "search as you type" feature was a nice bonus.
Best full text search service
What do you like best about the product?
The latency allows us to not worry about optimization and allows us to build actual applications, this was evident when we went from our custom solution which was very bulky and complex, hard to maintain, to algolia and the results were clearly in favor of algolia
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface can at times be daunting, especially in the beginning, maybe a product tour would help.
Also would love to get tips and tricks, maybe a newsletter would be nice to have
Also would love to get tips and tricks, maybe a newsletter would be nice to have
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed to make a property search with geolocations, initially solved with postgis and Postgres, soon turned to be very complicated and slow
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Full text search? Geolocation search? Algolia is the answer
Extremely powerful, but pricey at scale
What do you like best about the product?
Algolia is extremely easy to set up, manage and configure.
Excellent documentation and plenty of SDK tools to help in development.
It also has a generous free tier for hobby projects and similar
Excellent documentation and plenty of SDK tools to help in development.
It also has a generous free tier for hobby projects and similar
What do you dislike about the product?
It gets very pricey at scale (when you either have lots of traffic (more unlikely) or need to index a lot of data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am getting a highly tailored and fast search that matches much better than other options I have tried.
Search UI also helps me by me not needing to write much JS to implement Algolia.
Search UI also helps me by me not needing to write much JS to implement Algolia.
Algolia: instant search with few work and best results
What do you like best about the product?
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.
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provide an ecommerce with a instant search user experience.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Read theirs docs.
Avoid crawler part if not needed. Use their API in server-side to update your indexes.
Having 1 index per country/language will easy query suggestion part.
Avoid crawler part if not needed. Use their API in server-side to update your indexes.
Having 1 index per country/language will easy query suggestion part.
Wonderful solution to provide search in our products easy and fast
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the simplitity of algolia. It is easy to use and implement in various scenarios.
What do you dislike about the product?
Now, after using Algolia for some time, there isn't much that I don't like. But one thing was a bit confusing at first for me: The Unit system. It was first hard to understand for me, that these units are used for both search querys and index records. Maybe a bit clearer description would be helpful there.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest benefit I have over other solutions (for example ElasticSearch) is, that there are official, first-party search UI frameworks. Others have something simmilar as well, but by far not so feature rich. Especially React InstantSearch was a big time saver implementing search in our project.
Easy to set up, generous free tier
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I needed a search service that I could use with a static jamstack site with no access to a database. Algol is filled that need perfectly, and at no cost for my small use case.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get a test up and running with the provided code examples before trying to customize anything.
Very Fast and Reliable Search Functionality
What do you like best about the product?
Search speed
Autocomplete widget
Simple indexing capability
Search-related Reporting
Autocomplete widget
Simple indexing capability
Search-related Reporting
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of WordPress Plugin Support.
Had to take an existing fork of their WordPress plugin and further customise it... but was worth it.
Had to take an existing fork of their WordPress plugin and further customise it... but was worth it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
eCommerce Search
Realised:
Fast and reliable user experience.
Realised:
Fast and reliable user experience.
A performant full text search with highly tunable parameters
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Full-text fuzzy search is why we depend on Algolia. Being able to combine multiple data sets in one index is great for discoverability. Firestore lacks many querying features and so pairing it with Algolia covers our needs, though it does complicate things a bit and increase our bill.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Algolia is an excellent solution for full-text fuzzy search with support for handling typos. It also has many features you might not know you could benefit from.
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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