Algolia
Delivering Value Optimized Search Resources

An acknowledgeable fact in the cyber-driven enterprise world is the ability to serve one’s clients with data and services based on their requirements. Algolia is not only making this a reality at organizations, but they are also providing product teams with state-of-the-art search APIs that are optimized to provide the most relevant value-rich information to their customers. Also, Algolia has a prolific hosting system, and maintain servers at multiple data centers to host the search applications they create for their clients. Moreover, a copy of every individual search engine is maintained simultaneously across three of these domains. The company focuses on many areas, and has a vision mainly on e-commerce firms.

A recent survey suggested that most firms in the e-commerce space have very little understanding of the user search patterns, and this affects the amount of revenue spent on these technologies. Additionally, a third of respondents do not know how many visitors are using search either because their technology is not telling them or they do not think it is something they need to know. The need of the hour for retailers in the sales and service industry is to have clean searches, provide relevant results, and deliver options to customers that are purpose-based for them.

Algolia’s flagship offering “Site Search” enables enterprises to create prime search options, and results that initiate better shopping experiences for buyers.

The solution is packed with features such as autocomplete, typo tolerance, and word synonyms to provide the website visitors seeking products with quick choices on their devices. In turn, the buyers basket size increases, and this leads to better revenue generation for Algolia’s clients. Besides, the company is also in partnership with Google to leverage Google Analytics, and to adjust search to suit visitor behavior, and boost page performance. In terms of security, Algolia maintains SOC 2 and SOC 3 standards across their offering for all clients, and they also offer a product called Algolia Vault that applies military-grade AES256 encryption to their enterprise only customers.
The company has successfully gained the trust of over 5000 clients, and one client, AfterShip, an after delivery parcel logistics company required a highly scalable search solution that had real-time indexing. Algolia successfully provided them with a product that reduced their search uptime to just 25 milliseconds in less than two weeks leveraging the service of a single engineer on the project. In two days Algolia had their full solution offering up and running at Aftership, and later the client transferred their entire platform to Algolia’s solution. The success of the program was apparent with the team at AfterShip seeing their visitor base rise from 20000 to 100000 in just a matter of months. The client was also extremely joyous with the after service they received from Algolia. Any changes made after the client began seeing growth has also never been a problem for the team at Algolia, who firmly believe in their product and its power.

Algolia’s presence in this area of Search-as-a-Service has seen them lead from the front on various occasions; the company has won numerous awards and received recognition from both clients and peers in the industry. In 2018, Algolia performed a complete overhaul of their API to offer better monitoring of search data, more personalization, and more freedom to their clients. Moving further, Algolia’s start to the year has been exciting with the completion of their reenergized .NET API Client to follow up-to-date standards, new search techniques, and debugging tools for better safety.