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What is end-to-end AI search?
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What is end-to-end AI search?

Simplicity is critical for search engines, but building one that enables that simplicity is complex.  Over the last 20+ years ...

Abhijit Mehta

Director of Product Management

Comparing AI search solutions in a crowded market landscape
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Comparing AI search solutions in a crowded market landscape

Many new AI-powered search solutions have been released this year, and each promises to provide great results, but as ...

Andy Jones

Marketing Campaign Production Manager

What is B2B ecommerce? Everything you need to know
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What is B2B ecommerce? Everything you need to know

When you think of “customer experience,” what comes to mind? People, right? Specifically, consumers. Retail customers. That’s easy; the ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

What is ecommerce merchandising? Key components and best practices
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What is ecommerce merchandising? Key components and best practices

A potential customer is about to land on the home page of your ecommerce platform, curious to see what cool ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

AI-powered search: From keywords to conversations
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AI-powered search: From keywords to conversations

By now, everyone’s had the opportunity to experiment with AI tools like ChatGPT or Midjourney and ponder their inner ...

Chris Stevenson

Director, Product Marketing

Vector vs Keyword Search: Why You Should Care
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Vector vs Keyword Search: Why You Should Care

Search has been around for a while, to the point that it is now considered a standard requirement in many ...

Nicolas Fiorini

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

What is AI-powered site search?
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What is AI-powered site search?

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies enabling services such as Alexa, Google search, and self-driving cars, the ...

John Stewart

VP Corporate Marketing

What is a B2B marketplace?
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What is a B2B marketplace?

It’s no secret that B2B (business-to-business) transactions have largely migrated online. According to Gartner, by 2025, 80 ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

3 strategies for B2B ecommerce growth: key takeaways from B2B Online - Chicago
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3 strategies for B2B ecommerce growth: key takeaways from B2B Online - Chicago

Twice a year, B2B Online brings together industry leaders to discuss the trends affecting the B2B ecommerce industry. At the ...

Elena Moravec

Director of Product Marketing & Strategy

Deconstructing smart digital merchandising
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Deconstructing smart digital merchandising

This is Part 2 of a series that dives into the transformational journey made by digital merchandising to drive positive ...

Benoit Reulier
Reshma Iyer

Benoit Reulier &

Reshma Iyer

The death of traditional shopping: How AI-powered conversational commerce changes everything
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The death of traditional shopping: How AI-powered conversational commerce changes everything

Get ready for the ride: online shopping is about to be completely upended by AI. Over the past few years ...

Aayush Iyer

Director, User Experience & UI Platform

What is B2C ecommerce? Models, examples, and definitions
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What is B2C ecommerce? Models, examples, and definitions

Remember life before online shopping? When you had to actually leave the house for a brick-and-mortar store to ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

What are marketplace platforms and software? Why are they important?
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What are marketplace platforms and software? Why are they important?

If you imagine pushing a virtual shopping cart down the aisles of an online store, or browsing items in an ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

What is an online marketplace?
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What is an online marketplace?

Remember the world before the convenience of online commerce? Before the pandemic, before the proliferation of ecommerce sites, when the ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

10 ways AI is transforming ecommerce
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10 ways AI is transforming ecommerce

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just the stuff of scary futuristic movies; it’s recently burst into the headlines ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

AI as a Service (AIaaS) in the era of "buy not build"
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AI as a Service (AIaaS) in the era of "buy not build"

Imagine you are the CTO of a company that has just undergone a massive decade long digital transformation. You’ve ...

Sean Mullaney

CTO @Algolia

By the numbers: the ROI of keyword and AI site search for digital commerce
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By the numbers: the ROI of keyword and AI site search for digital commerce

Did you know that the tiny search bar at the top of many ecommerce sites can offer an outsized return ...

Jon Silvers

Director, Digital Marketing

Using pre-trained AI algorithms to solve the cold start problem
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Using pre-trained AI algorithms to solve the cold start problem

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly moved from hot topic to everyday life. Now, ecommerce businesses are beginning to clearly see ...

Etienne Martin

VP of Product

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Hi there. If you’re here, you’re probably evaluating whether Algolia is the right solution for the problem you’re trying to solve. And you’re probably looking for third party, factual information to do so – bonus points for your peers’ point of view on our technology.

We understand that you might want to forge your opinion based mostly on any content except ours, and we encourage you to do so ☺ But we still want to help you in this process! So we’ve referenced here everything we could find on the internet – favorable or not – as well as all our technical content (documentation, code exchange, customer implementations, …) that we believe could help you make up your own mind about Algolia.

We expect to list more assets as they become available. If you spot anything new, or if we’ve missed something, please let us know.

Enough talking, here’s the list.

Unsolicited discussions and opinions about Algolia

We didn’t ask – people just shared their thoughts about Algolia.

Source Type Year Link
Reddit Community discussions 2019 Does laravel.com uses algolia wrong or is algolia just trash?
HackerNews Algolia review, discussion 2020 Algolia introduces pay-as-you-go pricing for search
Reddit Community discussions 2020 Implementing search, should I go for Algolia or is Rails/Postgres enough?
HackerNews Algolia review, discussion 2021 Evolution of Search Engines Architecture – Algolia Search Architecture Part 1
Reddit Community discussions 2021 Firebase recommending you use Algolia for search is like McDonald’s recommending you go to Burger King for fries

Algolia vs ..

People compared us to some of our competitors.

Source Type Year Link
Independant Blog Algolia vs Elasticsearch 2019 Migrating Halodoc Search from Algolia to Elastic Search
Other Forum Algolia vs .. 2020 Suggestions for Search API service. Something cheaper than Algolia
Reddit Algolia vs Elasticsearch 2020 Elastic Search Vs Algolia Search
StackShare Algolia vs Elasticsearch 2021 Algolia vs Elasticsearch
Independant Blog Algolia vs Elasticsearch 2021 The Elasticsearch sideshow and why Algolia is the better be
Reddit Community discussions, Algolia reviews 2021 Using algolia or custom elastic search service?
Vendor Algolia vs Elasticsearch

Algolia vs Typesense

Algolia vs Meilsearch

2021 Compare Typesense vs Algolia vs ElasticSearch vs Meilisearch


Solicited and unsolicited Algolia reviews

Anyone can leave a review on these websites at any time. In some cases,  we proactively reached out to our users to leave reviews.

Algolia search and live implementations

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Algolia docs & Algolia API docs

Assess if Algolia would be a good fit for your use case and your stack.

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