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New features and capabilities in Algolia InstantSearch
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New features and capabilities in Algolia InstantSearch

At Algolia, our business is more than search and discovery, it’s the continuous improvement of site search. If you ...

Haroen Viaene

JavaScript Library Developer

Unlock the power of image-based recommendation with Algolia’s LookingSimilar
engineering

Unlock the power of image-based recommendation with Algolia’s LookingSimilar

Imagine you're visiting an online art gallery and a specific painting catches your eye. You'd like to find ...

Raed Chammam

Senior Software Engineer

Why imports are important in JS
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Why imports are important in JS

My first foray into programming was writing Python on a Raspberry Pi to flicker some LED lights — it wasn’t ...

Jaden Baptista

Technical Writer

AI at scale: Managing ML models over time & across use cases
engineering

AI at scale: Managing ML models over time & across use cases

Just a few years ago it would have required considerable resources to build a new AI service from scratch. Of ...

Benoit Perrot

VP, Engineering

Catch up on Algolia DevCon 2023
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Catch up on Algolia DevCon 2023

Having now hosted two Algolia Developer Conferences, I can honestly say they keep getting better. Algolia DevCon 2023 streamed live ...

Chuck Meyer

Sr. Developer Relations Engineer

Maintaining speed perception with NeuralSearch and optimistic UI
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Maintaining speed perception with NeuralSearch and optimistic UI

Algolia Search has always been exceptionally fast. Very few APIs let you call them many times per second and respond ...

Sarah Dayan

Principal Software Engineer

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Conference Recap: ECIR23 Take-aways
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Conference Recap: ECIR23 Take-aways

We’re just back from ECIR23, the leading European conference around Information Retrieval systems, which ran its 45th edition in ...

Paul-Louis Nech

Senior ML Engineer

How to personalize search results and recommendations
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How to personalize search results and recommendations

Online shopping was initially designed as a glorious pathway to convenience — a few clicks and your favorite items are shipped ...

Ashley Huynh

DevBit #1 Recap
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DevBit #1 Recap

Algolia DevBit is a quarterly livestream series where the Algolia Engineering team shares news, information, and best practices with the ...

Chuck Meyer

Sr. Developer Relations Engineer

Introducing the new Algolia no-code data connector platform
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Introducing the new Algolia no-code data connector platform

Ingesting data should be easy, but all too often, it can be anything but. Data can come in many different ...

Keshia Rose

Staff Product Manager, Data Connectivity

Teaching English with Zapier and Algolia
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Teaching English with Zapier and Algolia

National No Code Day falls on March 11th in the United States to encourage more people to build things online ...

Alita Leite da Silva

Adding trending recommendations to your existing e-commerce store
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Adding trending recommendations to your existing e-commerce store

Recommendations can make or break an online shopping experience. In a world full of endless choices and infinite scrolling, recommendations ...

Ashley Huynh

The right AI tools to build great search experiences

Algolia AI optimizes your entire Search and Discovery experience growing your business with far less manual tuning.Algolia AI is tightly integrated into a comprehensive Search and Discovery management platform so you can always make the final decision.

Indexing Markdown content with Algolia
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Indexing Markdown content with Algolia

I teamed up with Starschema Full Stack Engineer Soma Osvay to write about a project near and dear to my ...

Michael King
Soma Osvay

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Soma Osvay

Generate a transcription index for your YouTube content using Whisper
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Generate a transcription index for your YouTube content using Whisper

The theme of our 2022 Algolia Developer Conference was "Index the world and put your data in motion" so naturally ...

Michael King

Developer Advocate

12 ways to improve your search index
engineering

12 ways to improve your search index

Search indexing is often the first topic we discuss with customers when starting a new business engagement. Whether it's ...

Jon Silvers

Director, Digital Marketing

The 7 Dysfunctions of Personalization Engines
engineering

The 7 Dysfunctions of Personalization Engines

How are you thinking about personalization? That’s how I started most of my customer conversations over the past months ...

Ciprian Borodescu

AI Product Manager | On a mission to help people succeed through the use of AI

Part 2: Business Intelligence Data Indexing from PostgreSQL using Algolia – Implementation and conclusion
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Part 2: Business Intelligence Data Indexing from PostgreSQL using Algolia – Implementation and conclusion

We invited our friends at Starschema to write about an example of using Algolia in combination with PostgreSQL. Enjoy this ...

Mátyás Budavári

Software Developer Team Lead

Part 1: Business Intelligence Data Indexing from PostgreSQL using Algolia – Use Case and Proposed Solution
engineering

Part 1: Business Intelligence Data Indexing from PostgreSQL using Algolia – Use Case and Proposed Solution

We invited our friends at Starschema to write about an example of using Algolia in combination with PostgreSQL. Enjoy this ...

Mátyás Budavári

Software Developer Team Lead

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