Business Signals
Define and promote the commercial attributes you’re most interested in (like product profitability or inventory levels) so those attributes can be promoted.
AI search that understands your users
Say hello to the search API that understands your customers as well as you do. Now anyone can add AI-powered search to their site or app in minutes to deliver a better experience for their customers.
Our approach combines semantic search with keyword search. So your customers can find precisely what they’re looking for in milliseconds — while you surface under-exposed content.
A query can relate to more than one category. So “tomato” might mean a sauce or fresh produce and “Burgundy” could be a region, a wine, or a color. Our AI algorithms predict and show results from the the most likely category, improving relevance and boosting customer outcomes.
Use AI to identify and boost popular content to stay on top of what’s trending - whether that’s driven by world events or what's hot at the moment.
Tailored results lead to higher engagement. Our AI can personalize search results, product listings and recommendations to every user.
Analyzing your user inputs, Algolia automatically detects new potential synonyms. Quickly accept or reject synonym recommendations. Let AI Synonyms help you match more queries.
See it in action
Features that understand your business
Customize Curation
Empower your business teams to shape the search experience. Use our merchandising tools to curate campaigns and influence ranking.
Build the best search experiences
Get going fast
Index your content in minutes with our API clients (available in a variety of languages and frameworks). If using ecommerce platforms (like Shopify, Commercetools, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Adobe Commerce, or BigCommerce) you can populate your index using our partner integrations.
Customize your UIs
Use our extensive library of open source front-end components to create your own UIs and automatically ingest events. We have you covered with filters, sorting, pagination and maps.
Control your ranking
Automate optimization tasks with Dynamic Re-ranking. Or optimize ranking and fine tune results, as a technical or non-technical user, directly in the dashboard.
More capabilities
Crawler
Automatically extract and enrich your content.
InstantSearch
Design the perfect experience and ingest events with a suite of ready UI components.
Analytics
Understand your users to uncover hidden opportunities.
A/B Testing
Choose the best-performing relevance strategies.
Rules
Optimize ranking for specific queries.
Autocomplete
Guide users to the right content with typo tolerant autocomplete.
Custom ranking
Add business relevance to your ranking.
Merchandising
Curate results for promotional campaigns.
Integrations
Index content from any source.
Addressing a wide range of industries
Create personalized, flexible ecommerce Search & Discovery experiences your shoppers will love.
Index your catalog, put it in motion for your buyers. Increase conversion.
Build performant search experiences at scale while reducing engineering time.
Index your content, put it in motion for your users.
Increase user retention with fast and relevant search, powered by Algolia’s Search API.
Providing solutions for multiple use cases
Connects your customers to the right content, and your employees to the right information.
Create mobile search and discovery sessions that your users love.
Build image search for your website or app.
Rich product- and content-based customer experiences in a headless ecommerce framework.
Contextual understanding capabilities, NLP, natural-language understanding, and AI tools.
More than 17,000 customers in 150+ countries trust Algolia
The one-stop shop for AI search
Easy to use
Implement our APIs in minutes and gain easy control over rankings.
Fast
Search as quick as you type, with the fastest enterprise AI search we know of.
Scalable
Work with a partner who handles 30 billion records and nearly 1.7 trillion searches a year with 99.999% availability.
Algolia AI Search FAQs
Both solutions use large language models (LLMs) to provide results, but they solve very different problems.
- ChatGPT is a generative model that predicts the next most likely word/s based on the input context and underlying training.
- Algolia AI Search retrieves the best search results from your search index based on your clearly-defined business outcomes.
For example, in the context of ecommerce search, an AI chatbot can act like a virtual sales assistant to discuss what you’re looking for. With AI search, it’s as if the sales assistant is ranking the top items based on personalization, rules, merchandising, top performing results, past purchase or search history, or other factors you’ve identified as important.
Really fast. Most of our search queries take from 1 to 20 milliseconds to process. That’s up to 200 times faster than our competitors.
That said, query performance depends on many factors, from the size of the data you’re searching through to how CPU-intensive a query is. For example, features like geo-sorting and distinct are more “expensive”.An index is the place where the data used by a search engine is stored. An index is to search what a “table” is for a database. Unlike a database table, an index is optimized for search operations. For example, in an ecommerce website, the index would be a complete list of all products with a custom ranking.
Our engine is language-agnostic: it supports alphabet-based and symbol-based languages (such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean).
This is no easy feat, considering all the little and big differences languages have, from being based on symbols from different alphabets like Japanese or using many variants of the same stem like in German. So we added advanced capabilities to handle the specificities of such languages.
Algolia AI Search can power search for any kind of content. Actually Algolia doesn’t directly search in your original data source, but in the data you submit, which Algolia hosts on its servers.
Search APIs are software components that allow developers to seamlessly introduce search capabilities to websites and applications. They provide backend tools for indexing documents, querying various types of data, managing cluster configurations, viewing search analytics, and more.