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Introducing new developer-friendly pricing
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Introducing new developer-friendly pricing

Hey there, developers! At Algolia, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to bring a best-in-class search experience ...

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VP of Product Growth

What is online visual merchandising?
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What is online visual merchandising?

Eye-catching mannequins. Bright, colorful signage. Soothing interior design. Exquisite product displays. In short, amazing store merchandising. For shoppers in ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

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

Customer-centric site search trends
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Customer-centric site search trends

Everyday there are new messages in the market about what technology to buy, how to position your company against the ...

Piyush Patel

Chief Strategic Business Development Officer

What is online retail merchandising? An introduction
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What is online retail merchandising? An introduction

Done any shopping on an ecommerce website lately? If so, you know a smooth online shopper experience is not optional ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

5 considerations for Black Friday 2023 readiness
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5 considerations for Black Friday 2023 readiness

It’s hard to imagine having to think about Black Friday less than 4 months out from the previous one ...

Piyush Patel

Chief Strategic Business Development Officer

How to increase your sales and ROI with optimized ecommerce merchandising
e-commerce

How to increase your sales and ROI with optimized ecommerce merchandising

What happens if an online shopper arrives on your ecommerce site and: Your navigation provides no obvious or helpful direction ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

Mobile search UX best practices, part 3: Optimizing display of search results
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Mobile search UX best practices, part 3: Optimizing display of search results

In part 1 of this blog-post series, we looked at app interface design obstacles in the mobile search experience ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

Mobile search UX best practices, part 2: Streamlining search functionality
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Mobile search UX best practices, part 2: Streamlining search functionality

In part 1 of this series on mobile UX design, we talked about how designing a successful search user experience ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

Mobile search UX best practices, part 1: Understanding the challenges
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Mobile search UX best practices, part 1: Understanding the challenges

Welcome to our three-part series on creating winning search UX design for your mobile app! This post identifies developer ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

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

How AI search enables ecommerce companies to boost revenue and cut costs
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How AI search enables ecommerce companies to boost revenue and cut costs

Consulting powerhouse McKinsey is bullish on AI. Their forecasting estimates that AI could add around 16 percent to global GDP ...

Michelle Adams

Chief Revenue Officer at Algolia

What is digital product merchandising?
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What is digital product merchandising?

How do you sell a product when your customers can’t assess it in person: pick it up, feel what ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

Scaling marketplace search with AI
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Scaling marketplace search with AI

It is clear that for online businesses and especially for Marketplaces, content discovery can be especially challenging due to the ...

Bharat Guruprakash

Chief Product Officer

The changing face of digital merchandising
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The changing face of digital merchandising

This 2-part feature dives into the transformational journey made by digital merchandising to drive positive ecommerce experiences. Part 1 ...

Reshma Iyer

Director of Product Marketing, Ecommerce

What’s a convolutional neural network and how is it used for image recognition in search?
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What’s a convolutional neural network and how is it used for image recognition in search?

A social media user is shown snapshots of people he may know based on face-recognition technology and asked if ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

What’s organizational knowledge and how can you make it accessible to the right people?
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What’s organizational knowledge and how can you make it accessible to the right people?

How’s your company’s organizational knowledge holding up? In other words, if an employee were to leave, would they ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

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

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From Windsurfing to Venue Search: Great Search Implementations
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Want to show off what you’ve built with Algolia? The Show and Tell category on our Community Forum is a great place to gain visibility for your project and get feedback at the same time. Our 1,100 community members actively swap stories of success and overcoming obstacles on their projects.

We ? our community and enjoy seeing the many ways developers are building with Algolia, including the great search experiences built within large enterprises, small business, and those midnight-oil burning side projects that include massive amounts of creativity and originality.

Today, we’ll highlight recent posts to the Show and Tell category so you can see some great ways to implement search.

Digging into PHP’s #internal mailing list

Community member Mattieu Napoli built externals.io as a way to give PHP’s #internal mailing list a new level of accessibility. The site uses an Algolia InstantSearch to afford the user threaded views, search and up/down voting to enhance the UX. Externals.io also features highlighting and inline results in a responsive manner.

See Externals.io on ProductHunt and Algolia’s Community Forum.

externals.io

Finding the right windsurfing equipment

Built by Spanish developer Kikobeats, windtoday.co is a marketplace to find deals on windsurfing equipment. Windtoday.co enables visitors to find windsurfing goods based on category, brand, condition, and more, using great features like type-ahead search and facets. Also, for those on mobile, Kiko recently introduced a mobile version of windtoday.co using react-instantsearch.

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Powering philanthropic giving with Grantmakers.io

Grantmakers.io is a site intended to provide live search, summary data and rich profiles for 71,042 US-based foundations. Developer Chad Kruse built Grantmakers.io with Algolia, Jekyll and GitHub Pages in this great example of a search implementation. Even better, Chad has open sourced everything on GitHub for others to learn, hack and build upon.

Grantmakers.io

Uniting blog content and e-commerce sales through search

Often times it’s hard for companies to find a way to tie content marketing and ecommerce sales together. With AskFrannie (an essential oils website), developer Rolondo Garcia built a custom WordPress plug-in that uses product search at the bottom of articles, and invites the visitor to click to an online catalog of products. This method is great because it matches reader intent with relevant products in a casual way. That is, if a reader has read an entire article on, say, essential oils, they’re more likely to have a desire to see products presented in a relevant plug-in that a banner ad on the site.

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Find event space at hotels, restaurants and activity spaces

Ask any event manager and they’ll tell you that finding the right event space at the right location can be very time consuming. Bizly.com aims to solve the problem by enabling a curated venue search in major cities across the United States. Powered by optimized SQL queries, Laravel Scout and Algolia, Biz.ly’s search is lightning-fast and very rich.

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Feeling inspired by these Show and Tell examples? Head on over and share your post. An ideal post describes how the search works, the Algolia libraries you’re using, and other parts of the stack including languages, frameworks and APIs. The community also loves screenshots and a link to your project. We look forward to seeing what you’ve built!

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