Algolia AI Search
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Easy to get started quickly
What do you like best about the product?
Easy integration with existing Firebase app. The documentation was very easy to read and fortunately, there were good stack overflow answers that helped with fine details integrating the app with our backend . The docs are a great way to explore some features of Algolia search. Of course, the app's speed was far superior to the search feature in Firebase.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the API is difficult to use with Java applications. It's easier to use the project if you use Node or Javascript. I would prefer having more documentation and user support/examples for Java programs. Also, it was difficult to tell whether the app's speed was only because of the relatively small datasets we used for our app's prototypes. If there was an easier way to measure the metric and intelligently improve our overall speed, that would help as we scale up our user-base.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making our app's search functionality faster. We were able to add a fine grained search capability to the app easily with Algolia. We had to use more Node to implement full integration with our app and this ended up making our development easier.
Algolia Search is a Game Changer
What do you like best about the product?
I love the speed of search, especially the ability to run performant queries on each keystroke. This is the type of feature you expect when you use a search service like Google, so delivering a similar, intuitive experience to users is a major boost to a website's User Experience.
I first discovered Algolia via the GatsbyJS ecosystem and React documentation websites, so I was pleased to discover that there are well documented / widely adopted plugins available for easy integration with my existing projects.
It's also extremely easy to create a search index both at build time in the project's code or through the Algolia dashboard. I used to struggle with this process when I tried other local search solutions. Algolia is every developer's dream for interactive site search.
I first discovered Algolia via the GatsbyJS ecosystem and React documentation websites, so I was pleased to discover that there are well documented / widely adopted plugins available for easy integration with my existing projects.
It's also extremely easy to create a search index both at build time in the project's code or through the Algolia dashboard. I used to struggle with this process when I tried other local search solutions. Algolia is every developer's dream for interactive site search.
What do you dislike about the product?
I found the documentation for React in particular to be very challenging. I think the team at Algolia could do a better job explaining each component and showing relevant examples. It took me much longer than it should have to troubleshoot basic API challenges.
I have also experienced problems with the API querying more times than my search component renders. It would be great if Algolia offered more insight on optimizing usage to prevent behavior like this.
I have also experienced problems with the API querying more times than my search component renders. It would be great if Algolia offered more insight on optimizing usage to prevent behavior like this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using Algolia to index a medium sized content website so users can pinpoint the exact page or content they are looking for. I have found that performant, easy-to-use search really changes the way users approach an application. I currently run it on a website that will soon become 22 additional websites.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend that users try to roll out Algolia search for a trial period to determine how much search volume they receive. This would help users project their budgets.
A powerful and easy to use tool
What do you like best about the product?
Algolia just work perfectly, there is almost nothing to say:
- easy to install
- teams are helpful and reactivate
- integration is very easy and bring a kind of professionalism to your website very easily
- easy to install
- teams are helpful and reactivate
- integration is very easy and bring a kind of professionalism to your website very easily
What do you dislike about the product?
Customization is possible but not so easy, more documentation could be very helpful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I wrote some documentation for a personal open source projet. Thanks to algolia users can now easily find the documentation they need
Great search engine
What do you like best about the product?
Algolia makes indexed searching on our website easy!
What do you dislike about the product?
The online reporting and analytics are not that intuitive and timeline is restricted.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Algolia as a simple search interface for our clients.
Algolia has completely enhanced the search experience for our users.
What do you like best about the product?
Algolia was easy to integrate, and their platform makes it easy to customize the search experience based on our product and customer needs. We had originally built our own search experience but found that transitioning over to Algolia gave us the ability to constantly be delivering an excellent experience to users without needing to maintain the search technology on our own.
What do you dislike about the product?
As a business owner, I haven't run into any downsides yet but admittedly the engineers on my team would be more prepared to comment on any details of the integration or maintenance process.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are allowing media buyers to discover and browse their purchase options much faster.
As a frontend dev, Algolia is an absolute delight to work with.
What do you like best about the product?
Having a predefined library of frontend components was key to choosing Algolia for our main search functionality. Having example components to work from or extend for my use was incredibly helpful for building a search interface fast. We managed to build a series of pages without Algolia... and the day before launch we decided to add instant search. We were able to integrate + launch it within a day.
What do you dislike about the product?
Keeping real time data in sync is quite difficult/expensive with Algolia as a solution. Where we have a large list of items in our Algolia, they also have data points that update in near real time. The combination of needing to update data in algolia, and constantly refresh the algolia cache in browser results in either high costs, or out of sync data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Algolia has been fantastic for using real time fuzzy search across a broad spectrum of data. Combinging 3-4 data sets that we display as separate pages into one search result is a breeze.
Being able to take the same complex data set, and provide predefined sorting options has added a lot of functionality to our product rapidly. Without the need for backend to create custom endpoints for us.
Being able to take the same complex data set, and provide predefined sorting options has added a lot of functionality to our product rapidly. Without the need for backend to create custom endpoints for us.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Algolia is incredible for creating real time search interfaces, but difficult to work with real time data updates. If you're sending updates in mass, it will be difficult to keep users already browsing the site in sync.
We opted to delay some of our updates to algolia, and use web sockets to update users browsing the site just in case to combat this.
We opted to delay some of our updates to algolia, and use web sockets to update users browsing the site just in case to combat this.
Powerful way to integrate search to my website
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to integrate thanks to all SDK and documentation.
Backend and frontend integrations provided
Backend and frontend integrations provided
What do you dislike about the product?
When you have special needs or very particular needs you need to adapt your product to Algolia.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Improve user experience like never! Really fast for my users and easy to integrate for my developers
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't rebuild the wheel use SaaS like this
Great search-engine best suited for e-commerce
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to load data to, many SDKs available, easy to configure, reliable service.
What do you dislike about the product?
The use case we have is a bit odd for Algolia so I keep explaining to stakeholders the design decisions we made.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To construct a set of relevant hotels for given anchor hotel or place.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great search engine for slowly changing data. Reliability and speed are the best
Faster response while searching
What do you like best about the product?
Response time when I type a keyword in the search input
What do you dislike about the product?
I currently feel that there is no downside of using algolia as long as my data is safe.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I had a document searching functionality to be implemented in my project. I stored all the content of my document in the my local database but when it came for searching a keyword from the stored content in the database I lagged the response timing as it was not very fast. I resolved this issue when I used algolia.
Algolia has a fantastic developer experience and a wicked good peoduct
What do you like best about the product?
Developer documentation, availability of sdks, pretty dashboards
What do you dislike about the product?
Unclear how some of the dashboards work and their features
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick index search on documents
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