Algolia Site Search

Algolia for hosted search, ease of implementation, and awesome CX!

What do you like best? We were comparing Search options for both our new website and our web based application focused on the families we serve. We explored options such as Elastic which provided a robust suite of tools. However, in the end we decided on Algolia for its hosted search, ease of implementation, and UX. It allows us to focus on our data and not have to worry about maintaining the Search experience. What do you dislike? Thus far in our implementation, we haven't had any ...

Excellent service and complete solution

What do you like best? Very easy to implement. Created a search index for my Firestore database to introduce search in my Flutter app and had no problems whatsoever. Implementation (creation of the index, database export, database synchronisation and client implementation) took me less than half a day and it allowed me to introduce search with fast results in my product catalog. What do you dislike? Nothing at all. The solution Algolia provides was the complete package in my use ...

A great product, easy to integrate, powerful to use

What do you like best? The easy of integration and the speed of getting the responses. The documentation is also great. I have added a search feature to my personal blog, which is based on Jekyll. There is a Jekyll package that does all the heavy lifting, and for the parts to customize there is plenty of documentation. From the creation of the account to be up and running it took me less than one hour. What do you dislike? Nothing in particular. Everything was smooth and ...

Algolia for firebase search and geoloc!

What do you like best? It makes up for Firebases' deficiencies! What do you dislike? Probably scaling up can be costly, but to start and prototype is great and easy What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I was solving the search of Google maps businesses, taking into account the user location as well (to find closer shops)

Algolia is my go to search platform

What do you like best? I like the amount of simple integration allowing me to worry about my application logic without needing to worry about how to integrate complex search. We used an integration with Laravel that was backed by Algolia making a lot of the implementation simple and seamless. We went this route multiple times to build different types of solutions for multiple customers. We did a lot of work with Laravel and it being somewhat first-class supported and Algolia seems to ...

Super awesome and simple search for documentation

What do you like best? I like how easy it was to integrate into our companies documentation site. Also being able to see the most searched works and which search results don't land any results is very helpful for updating our documentation site in the future. What do you dislike? It did take longer than expected to receive the API key, but when we finally did, we were really happy. Recommendations to others considering the product: Just do it, Algolia makes search easy and ...

One of the blazing fast Search Provider Platform

What do you like best? The speed at which a search operation executes, along with all the linked aspects that broadens the concept of universal unified search in order to provide great User Experience! The product's landing page is one of the best I have seen to date since it clearly explains the search powers when clicked on the search bar on the homepage to get on the demo search portal in order to get hands-on experience with it. Simply put, Algolia is one of the best search ...

Easy to Use Search SaaS

What do you like best? It's the easiest way to add search functionalities to your software, without having to worry about managing Solr or ES clusters. Their API is really well documented and easy to use. Pricing model is also easy and you should not have problems calculating how much you will end up paying. Other advantage is the low and consistent latency to all end users, with servers on every major continent, no user will have a bad experience. What do you dislike? It can be a ...

Fast, easy to implement and very performant

What do you like best? How easy it is to setup a project and customize it to match the needs of the app What do you dislike? It may be a bit pricy for personal applications Recommendations to others considering the product: Perfect for a full out of the box search system. Comes with lots of documentation on different setups. The implementation on Laravel is especially really easy. if you follow the step-by-step guides it's not difficult at all to set it up for the ...

Easy and fast APIs

What do you like best? I worked on an iOS project with Algolia. It fetches the results super fast. Query settings are a bit tricky but once you figure out, it's super useful and customizable. What do you dislike? The way to set up differs version to version, so it sometimes unknowingly breaks if you blindly update. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Quickly search the DB with relatively straight settings. Refreshing as you type ...