Algolia Reviews

I like to describe it as an embedded Google that you can tailor with your own information. You can input your proprietary information and modify the weights and configuration of the search to tailor the results for your clients or services, like for internal tooling.

I can have a built-in flexible search engine. We used it specifically to return results to our clients in terms of listings based on their search and geographic location.

I like the fact that it's very powerful. It has many fine-tuning configurations. Essentially, every single piece of information you pass through it is a free document you can tailor. This allows me to craft the information in a manner that it can be easily searched.

For example, with our listings, we tailored them based on the individual's name, geographic location, and information specific to us, such as access to golf clubs and tennis courts. This very narrow information could then be used as part of the search results, providing our clients with a very intuitive search service.

The idea is that good search results lead to better commercial opportunities and customer retention because clients are satisfied with an easy-to-use service. That was definitely the greatest aspect of Algolia - it's a very powerful search engine.

I developed an application solution for the Economist Group, a think tank based in London. They were planning a new initiative, which was a publication tech. We use Algolia Search to give users the capability to search documents in the application we created.

Since Algolia is a SaaS solution, we didn't have to maintain servers, look at the indexes, and monitor services. Not having to maintain the servers was less of a headache for us. Algolia's similarity to other search services like Elasticsearch has greatly helped us.

I use Algolia for Magento 2 e-commerce websites so that I can enhance user search functionality. Throughout Algolia, our company can enhance our search results as per the user type, which can improve the user experience and reduce the time it takes for them to find a product. Algolia is also useful for filtering products. It can also be used to add any promotional banner, product ranking, product review, and product boosting.

The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to customize Algolia's API and then use it anywhere in Magento's application however we like.

I use the solution in my company since we wanted a solution to be delivered for search purposes, and we got the tool named Algolia.

In my company, we didn't use the tool's intelligence because it was not in the business plan, but the solution is amazing and one of the best solutions.

The most valuable features of the solution are the indexing servers and search servers, which are really fast. I don't remember the size of our database, but it was really big, and its ability to make decisions in a few minutes compared to Elasticsearch to deal with the indexing is good. The business layer is really incredible because business people should keep the organization off from the results of the search. Algolia is a good business solution. The intelligence of Algolia and how it works to deliver the information is good. We faced problems at the beginning of the project with the tool, especially with the user of the tool who was making the request because of the intermediate server. We take a long time to integrate, and we lose the tool's intelligence for personalizing the experience the solution can offer to its users. We should use a lot of Algolia's services, especially in terms of price and cost. Some of the servers had limitations.

I have used the solution in my company since we started building a product, and we have worked on it in terms of building a search engine and searching some of the microblogs we built.

I really like the recommend feature. Almost all the features and the search feature are pretty seamless. I think what really worked for me is the recommend feature and the InstantSearch.js feature through which you can just build a page, and you have some of the filters on the left, and you can just select from it.You don't have to worry about building a UI or UX out of it as it is already built-in. The tool is great in terms of integration.

We use Algolia as one of the core features for our product. We help our customers search within our product. We have millions of companies and tens of millions of people, with different data points or dimensions. We've built a feature like Google, where they can search with different filters or keywords.

The one thing I like best is the documentation.

I used Algolia to implement search functionalities. When I had too many products and wanted to improve search functionality, I built custom webhooks in the backend using ExpressJS and NodeJS. The product information was passed to Algolia, which I used only for search functionalities.

In my site, conversion rate or customer satisfaction progressed 100%. I rate it 100% for customer satisfaction because when users search for a product, they don't need to press the enter button. 

If they type ABC, the ABC type of product is automatically filtered and shown at the bottom of the screen. Algolia gives us that functionality, immediately showing filtering products without any bugs. That's why, in my site, it's 100% customer satisfaction. And from my side, it's okay.

Our primary use case is for our website because we are an e-commerce website and application store. We need to use a solution to browse our products, search for our products and sell them.

I have meetings with consultants every week and they are helping us to implement and understand a variety of features. They are like a partnership for us. The Algolia solution really helped us to improve our conversion rate and click-through rate. I have heard from other co-workers who already were working here that the Algolia solution really was good for our company.