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You just include a js file and add an input where you want the search and it just works(tm).
It has required 0 maintenance, it didn't go down, the api didn't change, nothing to tweak on the backend... Users have gotten a quality and super fast search since then.
I highly recommend it!
Guess I always assumed Algolia wasn't anything special. Anyone know what exactly makes it worth so much?
This means that creating a defensible USP in that space isn't easy. Algolia did it by essentially developing their own search software from the ground up. It isn't necessarily better than competitors like Elasticsearch in every measure but it certainly has some interesting properties and it can be pretty fast, especially for things like autocomplete.
Guess I always assumed Algolia wasn't anything special. Anyone know what exactly makes it worth so much?
Indexes are easy to setup, maintain, and SDK's support a variety of languages. Querying is fast enough to feel seamless.
Algolia is a fantastic service. I wish Elastic Search just as easy to populate and then to search with a front end javascript lib.
Algolia is a fantastic service. I wish Elastic Search just as easy to populate and then to search with a front end javascript lib.
I really enjoyed using http://searchkit.co/ a while back. If i were to do it again, I'd probably roll my own, as IIRC state management with searchkit was a bit of a black box, but it is a pretty nice drop-in lib .
Oh, that's the Hacker News site search... Works fine for me, except I always switch from "results by Relevance" to "Results by date", as in "Has this been posted already...?" Did not know Google is discontinuing its custom search engine. Looks like there may be a business opportunity here.
I've always wondered what rights they hold to your data, re: analyzing it, trends, patterns, etc.
I definitely love the hn search which is powered by algolia. Fast and instant. I wish it was possible to turn off fuzzy matching in some cases.