Algolia Reviews & Product Details

Speed of data is everything in web and Algolia provide results back in milliseconds! Despite having nearly 2 million records, Algolia allows users to search results quickly and return the most relevant results accurately. Using DSN's (A Search CDN), we are able to provide these speeds globally. My developers were able to develop a solution that intergrated into our current framework within two weeks thanks to the great documentation and JS library.

So far I have yet to find a downside of Algolia!

Our last Site Search provider was Swiftype. The lack of development with Swiftype meant our search offering was lagging behind our competitors, the relevance was poor and the configuration was limited in comparison to Algolia. Algolia provides us with better tools and analytics to improve the relevance for a user.

It provides data to make the decision making easy and accurate. Also, provides insights and tools to create a better experiencies for our users.

ther'es nothing in particular I dislike about Algolia.

It allows us to create a better and enhances search experiencies for our users .

I like the fact that Algolia is consistently blazing fast.

I'd like better options for sorting and more granularity around build time metrics.

We offer a way for our users to search for their content, for which we index related metadata in Algolia.

You can easily merchandise products with click of a mouse

Manual pinning of products behaves wierdly at times which is a bit furstrating

Visual merchandising is very flexible in Algolia and it helps us to influence customer purhcase behaviour

Algolia is the easiest search engine to setup with a greate backend to configure everything. Fast search engine easy to integrate. Really fast and good customer support The search had an amazing effect on our sales performance because customers easily find what they are looking for.

A lot of functionalities are behind paywalls

User searching I a +1400 products catalog and finding what they are looking for

The flexibility and how easy to use it is out of the box. The indexing is very good and not expensive

To be honest there isnt a single thing i dislike at the moment . its very stable and works 100%

We use Algolia to index huge datasets and then be able to quickly find the data our applications needs

Algolia is very versatile. We can easily make AB tests, verify which indexes have good results and which don't and easily re-rank the search to put the most relevant items in a better position.

Algolia is a pricy solution and a few things require a bit more knowledge of how the tool works, such as the creation of rules

Algolia is easily re-ranking the products that have a higher conversion rate and also making it easy to create indexes to test hipothesis

It's beneficial in improving search performance on the website

Some query-based functionality needs improve. Ex: Bookings-based website

Website search functionality implementations.

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.

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.

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.

I find the algolia documentation very helpful

I dont think there is something i dislike

We use algolia for ecommerce search from our integrations

Easy to integrate and great search quality.

Nothing, product is great. Pricing is also fair.

Indexing documentation and expose search to our site

The back office especially is easy to handle. Also, there is an academy for beginners who want to level up their skills :)

I would say that there are some points to review rather than things that i dislike about Algolia. Until now, the tool is really helpful and brings excellent data.

Algolia solves problems related to search and data, but also problems regarding the search speed. In my job, that is really important to have access to this data, and help users use the search bar in a correct way.

Algolia offers a modern alternative to search functionalities with easy indexing, good documentation, and typo tolerance. A significant benefit of it is that you can use it for everything and implement it with most, if not all, popular coding languages. If your project is written with PHP, JS, or even React, you can quickly pick it up and create endless possibilities. I like that it allows me to work with PHP and have the option to create UI components rapidly. Another benefit of Algolia is the huge community of developers who can help you if you struggle with something, just jump into the Algolia community forum and ask, or even tag some Algolia Team members - they're always happy to help you as long as you describe your issue properly and provide details where you stuck.

Honestly, there aren't many things that I dislike, although a recent change in the Dashboard UI made some options more difficult to access than the previous UI/UX revisions. If you're working on some demo project, the trial will be enough, but if you start using it in some big project, your bill might be an issue, but if your website/project generates good revenue, this should pay for itself.

Helps with providing users with the best User Experience during search interaction on the main website and allowed us to handle a lot of queries with different sets of filters as well as sorting and suggestions behind the scene. Algolia helped replace native WordPress search and allowed me to expand it with our main search database to provide users with product suggestions based on the typed text on a company blog, which one place a big part for us.

It's so easy to implement. Super intuitive. Very fast to deliver results and affordable.

For what I used until now, I did not miss or dislike anything.

I needed to offer an easy way for my users to find content on the platform. Algolia allowed us to do it. It was fast and easy to implement, a great experience, and affordable.

The Algolia admin console is incredibly powerful - you can create indices with ease, custom rules for search results, custom field weighting, fuzzy matching and so much more. The option to try for free is also very welcome!

I've not found anything I'd describe as negative during my use of Algolia thus far.

Algolia makes implementing performant search a breeze for JAMstack applications. It's so simple to configure your indices, and specify priority fields and ordering rules - plus they have libraries/SDKs for many front-end/back-end technologies.

Simple and intuitive dashboard as well as super easy to start. I was able to get my search into production in minutes

Pricing can get out of hand if not careful.

Site wide search

Algolia's team is very committed to generating results in the integration and use of the tool on our platform. We achieved great results with Algolia and we are impressed with the performance and how easy it is to integrate and use. We recommend Algolia.

Costs are a little bit high at this moment for Brazilian currency.

We started using CloudSearch, from AWS, and creating a team to tune it. But we quickly understood that with Algolia we would achieve better results and faster. The tool is amazing.

Algolia requires no backend management whatsoever. It's built for developers and speed to market.

It's not a cheap product but more than worth it. Pays for itself.

Taking all the pain out of custom search. I run an online marketplace with hundreds of thousands of products and Algolia manages it all with zero configuration from our team.

Algolia delivers what they promise. And their team is always there to help us to reach our goals.

The speed of Algolia puts pressure on our other systems to perform in the same pace.

Delivering correct products and search results in the correct time and place for our customers

The simplicity (connection with Firebase), the documentation, and the UI / UX

The indications about the price. We don't know if we pay the records each month, we don't have a simulator in order to estimate the cost in production.

Problem solved: Auto completion search Benefit: Firebase doesn't have an efficient search (case sensitive etc), Algolia is perfectly solving it