Your users almost certainly use at least one of YouTube, Amazon, and Facebook. An essential feature that these sites share is great search. This is because they have hundreds or thousands of people working on it full-time.

Because your users are constantly exposed to a great search experience on these platforms, they expect to find it on every site and app they use. But your company isn’t a search company: it doesn’t make sense for you to hire a dedicated team of developers to reinvent search.

Algolia provides software and tools to help you implement an efficient, flexible, and insightful search experience on your sites and apps.

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What does Algolia do?

Algolia consists of two parts: search implementation and search analytics. The implementation tools make it easier for your developers to create and maintain great search experiences for your users. The analytics tools enable your business teams to analyze the impact of those experiences and refine them, so they can directly address your evolving business objectives.

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Search as a feedback loop

Search has the power to both aid and reshape your business.

Although search doesn’t know the direction that business should take, it can help you gather about what your users want, so you can better align your business with your users.

What if you could ask every customer who enters your store, “What are you looking for?” and automatically record their answers? This would give you a sense of what they want, what they’re not interested in, and how this overlaps with what you provide.

Algolia lets you immediately start collecting this information about your users.

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What can Algolia do for my users?

Algolia provides your users with a fast and rich search experience. Your Algolia search interface can contain a search box, filters, infinite scrolling, query suggestions, sorting, refinements, and so on. These help your users find what they’re looking for and discover new products.

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What can Algolia do for my developers?

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

  • Backend API clients, in many different languages, to index, configure and manage your data.
  • Frontend widgets to build web and mobile search experiences.
  • Integrations with popular frameworks and platforms, to further simplify the integration of Algolia in your existing projects.
  • A secure, Distributed Search Network that hosts your content and serves it to your users quickly.
  • A transparent, customizable relevance algorithm.
  • A heavily optimized search engine built, from scratch, in C++.
  • Extensive documentation, implementation guides, and code examples.

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What can Algolia do for my business?

Algolia has 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 your user’s search experience. With it, you can:

  • Promote specific products or brands.
  • Add personalization to your search.
  • Test different search configurations.
  • Get insights and analytics on user behavior.
  • Get insights and analytics on your products.

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Cost management

Algolia lets you define a monthly budget and set up an email alert when your next invoice exceeds a pre-defined limit. This increases transparency and helps you control your account, usage, and invoices. To manage your budget from your Algolia dashboard, go to Billing > Cost Management.

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