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Algolia is a great product. However, the market is very very tough here. The problem here is consolidation: all big customers (successful websites) will end up being part of mega-corporations (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, etc.). And all these companies have their own search engine (which they use for other machine learning, etc. - not just search). For example, Twitch will probably switch to Amazon A9. So t…
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.
EDIT: Looks like they do support this.. https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-client/ruby/api-keys/#genera...
However, I think for a small project it will probably be extra work to keep these keys synchronized vs just doing a postgres search for my project
This is great for something like a public website. What about a situation where I want some of my users to only be authorized to view some of my data based on a set of rules I set in my backend application. Can Agolia accomplish this? EDIT: Looks like they do support this.. https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-client/ruby/api-keys/#genera... However, I think for a small project it will probably be extra work to keep these…
I've actually been avoiding using Algolia after I used IndexTank and then they were acquired by LinkedIn. (I always said grats diego + team at IndexTank) but it was a frustrating experience to need to role up everything and pack up shop. Seeing a huge raise like this actually makes me feel better about the possibility of using Algolia rather than rolling my own Solr containers.
Because...they won't be pressured to be acquired?
This is a place where there are tons of unstructured data: emails, slack, atlassian, code base. Search seems like a useful tool for employees. Permission control is another essential feature.
Algolia is a great product. However, the market is very very tough here. The problem here is consolidation: all big customers (successful websites) will end up being part of mega-corporations (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, etc.). And all these companies have their own search engine (which they use for other machine learning, etc. - not just search). For example, Twitch will probably switch to Amazon A9. So t…
I mean Twitch has been passed between two giants and they're still using Algolia.
Algolia is a great product. However, the market is very very tough here. The problem here is consolidation: all big customers (successful websites) will end up being part of mega-corporations (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, etc.). And all these companies have their own search engine (which they use for other machine learning, etc. - not just search). For example, Twitch will probably switch to Amazon A9. So t…
I mean Twitch has been passed between two giants and they're still using Algolia.
My only complaint, if I had to make one, is that pricing is a bit steep for our use case but I can't imagine how much time I'd need to spend to get ElasticSearch running comparably.
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.
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