What is Algolia?

Users are familiar with powerful search on platforms like YouTube, Amazon, and Facebook. This level of search excellence requires teams of hundreds, even thousands, of specialists. Because your users experience excellent search on these platforms, they expect it. But you aren’t a search company: it doesn’t make sense to hire a dedicated team of developers to reinvent search.

As an alternative, Algolia provides software and tools to help you create efficient, flexible, and insightful search and discovery experiences for your sites and apps.

What Algolia can do

Algolia’s search consists of two parts: implementation and analytics:

• The implementation tools make it easier for your developers to create and maintain great search experiences for your users.
• The analytics tools let you analyze the impact of those experiences and refine them, so they can directly address your evolving business objectives.

Search as a conversation

Algolia offers more than just a way to find information: it can help shape what you offer. It won’t decide your strategy but does show you what your users want.

Algolia is like asking everyone who walks into your physical store, “What are you looking for?” and recording their responses. These responses tell you what users want, what they don’t want, and how this overlaps with what you provide.

What Algolia can do for your users

Algolia offers a fast, rich search experience and lets you present users with features like a search box, filters, infinitely scrolling results, search suggestions, and results sorting. These features help users find what they want and discover new products and content.

What Algolia can do for developers

Algolia provides tools that simplify making and integrating a search experience into your sites and apps. These include:

• API clients to index, configure, and manage your data.
• Frontend widgets to build web and mobile search experiences.
• Integrations with popular frameworks and platforms to help integrate Algolia into your existing projects.
• A secure, Distributed Search Network (DSN) that hosts your content and quickly serves it to your users.
• A transparent, customizable relevance algorithm.
• A highly optimized search engine..
• Extensive documentation and code examples.

What Algolia can do for your business and marketing teams

Algolia provides a dashboard that lets you customize your search and view search analytics without coding. The dashboard enables business and marketing teams to engage and customize the search experience for your users. With it, you can:

• Promote specific products or brands.
• Add personalization to your search.
• Test different search configurations.
• Get insights and analytics into user behaviors.
• Get insights and analytics about your products and content.

Cost management

Algolia lets you set a monthly budget and create an email alert when your next invoice exceeds this limit. This increases transparency and helps you control your account, usage, and invoices.

To manage your budgets, go to Billing > Cost Management in your Algolia dashboard.