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Takes the headache out of managing search infrastructure
What do you like best about the product?
For the most part is it just plug-and-play. It has good packages for integrating with Ruby on Rails and Laravel which makes firing data off easy. Being able to control search preferences inside Algolia rather than in code makes it easy to see what options are available but also tinker in realtime.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing - it becomes prohibitively expensive as the number of records goes up. This is a result of paying per record rather than paying for CPU capacity or bandwidth. For use-cases with millions of records I've had to consider other options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It makes searching for our users (and site administrators) super easy - it fixes for typos, handles fuzzy searching and queries multiple columns easily. It takes the load off our SQL database performing complex queries and gives better and faster results to our customers.
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All in all a great service with tiny glitches
What do you like best about the product?
It was a joy implementing Algolia, and once I got the hang of it, and got what I needed out of it, I was amazed by the speed of the service, and the ease of use of the web app. It's great to see so much gifted to us in the free tier plan.
What do you dislike about the product?
It occasionally had smaller glitches, but mostly display issues on the web app (like text covering buttons), but nothing that could not be worked around easily. One bug downside: cannot search for the inexistence of fields/values.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use firebase and it has no string search, so we were looking for an alternative, and Algolia has solved that problem perfectly, and for a very good price as well.
Algolia let us move forward in our development with state of the art search technology
What do you like best about the product?
I like Algolia because I do not even need a database to have a fast search service
What do you dislike about the product?
Maybe the pricing, but it delivers a lot of value and has a quite robust free tier
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Algolia powers our search functionality, and products recommendations as well. The implementation was quite easy and the service works ultra fast
Really easy to implement, it takes a bit to master
What do you like best about the product?
The documentation is awesome. It was really easy to start a search experience on my app. I just inserted the libraries and followed the 5 minute tutorial and I was ready for a production launch.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sadly some examples on the website docs are not totally clear or they lack more applied examples. I'll like to have demos for each possible scenario or caveat of the API of algolia. but either way is really useful as it is
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm using search results as an autocomplete based on a knowledge base I created from user documents, algolia is making all the hard work and helping me with the searching and autocompletion
Enterprise search available for small sites--but not plug and play
What do you like best about the product?
Algolia delivers fast, quality results and the WordPress plugin, offered by a third-party developer on wordpress.org, makes it possible to install this on any WordPress site with relative ease. The Algolia team provides support as well, though of course they won't build your search experience for you without an additional support plan.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am unable to tweak much about the search experience without hiring a developer. Even the developers we have hired were unable to configure Algolia to take advantage of the site's custom fields and weighting preferences.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were using an excellent WordPress self-hosted search plugin (paid) but that ran on our own server. Algolia takes the load on their own servers and comes with some pre-built filters.
An awesome search experience
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility, scalability, and ease of use are the biggest draws. Algolia's willingness and ability to partner with nonprofits through its Algolia for Open Source program is an amazing offer.
What do you dislike about the product?
Admittedly, very, very little. The hardest thing so far has been integrating Algolia with our WordPress site, but the documentation is helpful and thorough in making it possible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have dozens of references to identical information (e.g. "Region __") and the flexible nature of Algolia's search abilities and the ability to target or limit search queries to certain sections of our site's data is incredibly helpful.
Flexible, powerful API driven search features
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility of Algolia I think is one of its greatest strengths. On the server side, their SDKs are easy to use, but I've also found the raw REST API endpoints simple enough as well. On the client side, I like that they have a library for UI components but also allow you to do the UI completely yourself, and just hit the APIs for searching.
What do you dislike about the product?
I've found little to truly dislike. I have seen that in some cases, the parts of the product that are NOT free, are sometimes not properly explained. For example, when trying to test the Crawler product, I remember the error message wasn't clear that it was part of the paid tier only. That's a minor complaint though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I manage a large content site (six thousand plus blog posts), and Algolia provides an awesome search interface to that and makes it easier for my readers to find content. Heck, it helps me find stuff in my own content as well.
Time is money, and if you are a doing business with web you need the best service.
What do you like best about the product?
I like the speed of the response and the fact that it's easy to set up.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd like to have more edge case examples in the documentation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Indexed searches are a very annoying task to manage by myself. Algoila solves this issue by giving a complete set of tools to create a very, very fast and user-friendly search engine for my web apps.
Algolia is a wonderful search service! Highly recommend.
What do you like best about the product?
Algolia helps my team and I to efficiently search through a large database and provide an impeccable customer experience. The InstantSearch.js + React Hooks API is unrivaled.
What do you dislike about the product?
The 100kb file size limit for records can be a little difficult to work around. I understand the concerns behind not letting people "game" the billing system. However, it would be most optimal if users are billed additionally per >100kb record, rounded up to the nearest 100 and divided by 100. (e.g., a 140kb record would be 2x the price of a regular record because 140 rounded up becomes 200, divided by 100 becomes 2; similarly, a 540kb record would be billed at 6x the regular rate).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Algolia's automatic indexing of Firestore objects helps me because I don't have to manually reindex my data. I am more productive and can focus on other things.
Fast to setup, easy to monitor
What do you like best about the product?
Algolia docsearch is pretty quick to setup with docusaurus and dashboard is easy to read. You can also expose the API to force an indexation, which means you can integrate into the CI pipeline. Pretty neat.
What do you dislike about the product?
The manual check for Docsearch is required for Open Source project. It would be great to have this automated and avoid to communicate by mails. We would also like to do the manual check before the project is exposed to the public.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem Algolia solves is the search engine and the indexation of the whole website, which can take a long time to setup if done manually. It also moves the responsability to Algolia to assure a good quality of service.
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