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Easily integrate Algolia into native apps with FlutterFlow

Algolia's advanced search capabilities pair seamlessly with iOS or Android Apps when using FlutterFlow. App development and search design ...

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Sr. Developer Relations Engineer

Algolia's search propels 1,000s of retailers to Black Friday success
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Algolia's search propels 1,000s of retailers to Black Friday success

In the midst of the Black Friday shopping frenzy, Algolia soared to new heights, setting new records and delivering an ...

Bernadette Nixon

Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Algolia

Generative AI’s impact on the ecommerce industry
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Generative AI’s impact on the ecommerce industry

When was your last online shopping trip, and how did it go? For consumers, it’s becoming arguably tougher to ...

Vincent Caruana

Senior Digital Marketing Manager, SEO

What’s the average ecommerce conversion rate and how does yours compare?
e-commerce

What’s the average ecommerce conversion rate and how does yours compare?

Have you put your blood, sweat, and tears into perfecting your online store, only to see your conversion rates stuck ...

Vincent Caruana

Senior Digital Marketing Manager, SEO

What are AI chatbots, how do they work, and how have they impacted ecommerce?
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What are AI chatbots, how do they work, and how have they impacted ecommerce?

“Hello, how can I help you today?”  This has to be the most tired, but nevertheless tried-and-true ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

Algolia named a leader in IDC MarketScape
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Algolia named a leader in IDC MarketScape

We are proud to announce that Algolia was named a leader in the IDC Marketscape in the Worldwide General-Purpose ...

John Stewart

VP Corporate Marketing

Mastering the channel shift: How leading distributors provide excellent online buying experiences
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Mastering the channel shift: How leading distributors provide excellent online buying experiences

Twice a year, B2B Online brings together America’s leading manufacturers and distributors to uncover learnings and industry trends. This ...

Jack Moberger

Director, Sales Enablement & B2B Practice Leader

Large language models (LLMs) vs generative AI: what’s the difference?
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Large language models (LLMs) vs generative AI: what’s the difference?

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs). These two cutting-edge AI technologies sound like totally different, incomparable things. One ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

What is generative AI and how does it work?
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What is generative AI and how does it work?

ChatGPT, Bing, Bard, YouChat, DALL-E, Jasper…chances are good you’re leveraging some version of generative artificial intelligence on ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

Feature Spotlight: Query Suggestions
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Feature Spotlight: Query Suggestions

Your users are spoiled. They’re used to Google’s refined and convenient search interface, so they have high expectations ...

Jaden Baptista

Technical Writer

What does it take to build and train a large language model? An introduction
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What does it take to build and train a large language model? An introduction

Imagine if, as your final exam for a computer science class, you had to create a real-world large language ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

The pros and cons of AI language models
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The pros and cons of AI language models

What do you think of the OpenAI ChatGPT app and AI language models? There’s lots going on: GPT-3 ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

How AI is transforming merchandising from reactive to proactive
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How AI is transforming merchandising from reactive to proactive

In the fast-paced and dynamic realm of digital merchandising, being reactive to customer trends has been the norm. In ...

Lorna Rivera

Staff User Researcher

Top examples of some of the best large language models out there
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Top examples of some of the best large language models out there

You’re at a dinner party when the conversation takes a computer-science-y turn. Have you tried ChatGPT? What ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

What are large language models?
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What are large language models?

It’s the era of Big Data, and super-sized language models are the latest stars. When it comes to ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

Mobile search done right: Common pitfalls and best practices
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Mobile search done right: Common pitfalls and best practices

Did you know that 86% of the global population uses a smartphone? The 7 billion devices connected to the Internet ...

Alexandre Collin

Staff SME Business & Optimization - UI/UX

Cloud Native meetup: Observability & Sustainability
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Cloud Native meetup: Observability & Sustainability

The Cloud Native Foundation is known for being the organization behind Kubernetes and many other Cloud Native tools. To foster ...

Tim Carry

Algolia DocSearch is now free for all docs sites
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Algolia DocSearch is now free for all docs sites

TL;DR Revamp your technical documentation search experience with DocSearch! Previously only available to open-source projects, we're excited ...

Shane Afsar

Senior Engineering Manager

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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

Assess the end-user experience by yourself.

Algolia docs & Algolia API docs

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

See what you can build with Algolia

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We hope we’ve helped you in your evaluation process. If you’d like to recommend any additional asset to list here, please contact us. For more resources, visit our developer hub.

 

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