Algolia AI Search
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Algolia has been an integral part of our search/discovery systems
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Algolia is so easy to use for both developers and business-side folks. Now that we've integrated it into our search system, we can iterate often as we learn more about our users and test search ranking improvements. For the business side, I like the ability to see clear usage analytics as well as the system proactively offering synonyms and other options to further boost our search experience. In addition, their team is very easy to work with and has been receptive to feedback and supports us as necessary. It does feel like Algolia offers great service and it has been very appreciated by our team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some tools still feel MVP which can be a drag. An example of that is Algolia offers synonyms (where you can make similar phrases return the same result) but the AI re-ranker feature doesn't fully respect them which can break your user experience goals. I do hope Algolia can share more updates and plans for iterating on existing features. They do share their long-term thinking but sometimes it would be great to know when those new features are coming so our team can better plan for them or consider them as part of future A/B testing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Algolia has allowed us to scale our search index system as our Marketplace grows. In addition, it enables us to understand and iterate on user trends to enhance our search experience for users. When we finished rolling it out, we saw an increase in GMV using Algolia compared to our prior search system.
Nowadays, we use Algolia to visualize and note trends in user searches where they're converting at lower rates, identify future opportunities for the business based on their Analytics toolings, and integrate it with other search and discovery services we're using.
Nowadays, we use Algolia to visualize and note trends in user searches where they're converting at lower rates, identify future opportunities for the business based on their Analytics toolings, and integrate it with other search and discovery services we're using.
Fast and easy to adopt
What do you like best about the product?
The speed of algolia is fantastic, we send data and it syncs quickly. Responses are in milliseconds.
What do you dislike about the product?
Figuring out how to do database syncing is tricky. We have somewhat realtime information we need to send and sometimes indexing speeds are >10 seconds which is a bummer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ultimately we are using algolia for global search. We're also using it for a few landing pages for users to browse their items.
Very fast and powerful search with integrated enhancement tools and client side examples
What do you like best about the product?
So far is the speed and exposed API to update the indexes and settings. It's search on steroids and a very powerful tool to add to your website or admin backend
What do you dislike about the product?
So far nothing that I could point out with a dislike tone. In further reviews, the dashboard could be improved to be more user-friendly for newcomers. But as it works perfectly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Is resolving autosuggest smart search fields and adding speed independently of the server load. Even if it would be implemented on our side would be hard to reach that response speed.
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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